kokon
by GabrieleLozupone
Kokon is a desktop app that edits photos from a typed description, such as "remove the people from the beach", using an AI model running on your own graphics card. It keeps photos on your computer and also offers an MCP server and local API so AI agents can create and edit images.
- Stars
- 228 +2 a day
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Runs on
- A gpu machine, with a GPU
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- TypeScript
- Age
- 19 days
What you can do with it
- Paint over part of a photo and remove, replace, change or add something by typing what you want
- Restyle, relight or expand a photo, or change text in an image, with a single sentence
- Let an AI agent such as Claude or Cursor create and edit images on your machine through the built-in MCP server
Could replace
- ChatGPT image editing
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Make money with it
A freelancer could offer photo clean-up, object removal and restyling services to local businesses without paying per-image fees, though the model licence limits output to non-commercial use.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Edit product and marketing photos in-house without paying for per-image or subscription AI editing credits
- Retouch client photos privately, without uploading them to a third-party cloud service
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download and run the installer for Windows, Mac or Linux (a Docker image is also available for NVIDIA cards), and it downloads about 12 GB of models on first run.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Model licence restricts generated images to non-commercial use, which limits business use
- Needs a 12 GB graphics card (8 GB in beta) or an Apple Silicon Mac
- Mac and Linux versions are beta, and the Mac app is not notarised by Apple
- AGPL-3.0 licence has obligations if you modify and host it
- About 12 GB of model downloads on first run
Checked 28 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
