Fooocus
by lllyasviel
Fooocus is a free, offline image generator built on Stable Diffusion XL, with a simple web-style interface where you mainly type prompts. It is for making images, editing parts of them and creating variations without much manual tuning.
- Stars
- 53.7k
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Runs on
- Your computer, with a GPU
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 1175 days
What you can do with it
- Generate images from short or long text prompts using Stable Diffusion XL models
- Inpaint, outpaint, upscale and create variations of existing images
- Use an image as a prompt, including face swap, and apply preset styles or Civitai SDXL models
Could replace
- Midjourney
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Make money with it
An individual could offer custom AI-generated illustrations, product visuals or social media image packs to small businesses as a freelance service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Create product mock-ups, social media graphics and marketing images without paying for a subscription service
- Produce stock-style artwork, blog illustrations and concept images for clients at no per-image cost
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
On Windows, download the 7z archive from the releases page, unpack it and run run.bat; models download automatically on first launch.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Limited long-term support: bug fixes only, no plans to support newer models such as Flux
- Needs an Nvidia GPU with at least 4GB of memory
- Many fake websites imitate the project, so only download from the official GitHub page
- GPL-3.0 licence, and individual models downloaded may have their own licence terms
- Large model downloads on first run
Who's talking about it
- FindARepo: 30 Best AI Image Generator GitHub Repos (October 2026) — Open-Source & Local Featured in a roundup
Checked 28 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
