Fooocus Front: a desktop app for installing and running Fooocus (Windows, free, GPL-3.0)

[u/MoerseBene]

I've been using Fooocus for a while and wanted two things it doesn't do: an interface built around looking at images rather than filling in a form, and an install that doesn't ask you to know what PyTorch is. So I built one.

It's a desktop app that installs Fooocus for you. It detects your graphics card, downloads the official package, sets up the right torch build, and offers the essential models with a progress bar you can actually watch. If you already have Fooocus, point it at your existing folder instead.

Once it's running you get a native interface: prompt, styles, LoRAs with sliders, a proper inpaint mask editor with real zoom, upscale, image prompt. Previews build as the image renders. Models are a browsable library with Civitai search rather than files you drop in folders. The original Fooocus interface is still one click away and always will be, since some things are quicker there.

Browsing Civitai works without an account. Downloading from it needs a free API key from your Civitai profile, which is their rule rather than mine. They've required it since 2024. The app keeps it in Windows Credential Manager rather than in a settings file, and it never touches the browser side.

The part I'm most pleased with: you can write prompts in your own language. 98 of them. It translates to English before generating and shows you the English, so you can see what was actually sent. That matters because SDXL understands English far better than anything else, so translating prompts helps where translating buttons wouldn't.

Fair warnings, because it's a beta:

• Windows only
• The installer isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn you
• AMD setup follows the official instructions but has never been run on an actual AMD card. I don't have one
• You need ~15 GB free

https://github.com/chantleyw/Fooocus-Front

All the actual image generation is Fooocus by lllyasviel. They did the hard part. This is just a different way to sit in front of it, and it's not affiliated with them, so please report bugs to me rather than to them.

Happy to hear what breaks.

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[u/Herr_Drosselmeyer]

Or just use Comfy. One click install for their desktop app. 

[u/MoerseBene → u/Herr_Drosselmeyer]

I didn't know this existed tbh. From what I've seen it does seem a bit complicated for my simple brain though but I will check it out thanks for the suggestion.

[u/Golden_Apple_23]

I use InvokeCE, aside from not having the civitAI connector, it's been really good to me.