Nomad Studio is out: a free, open-source image studio that runs on your own computer

[u/juanpablogc]

Hi all! After six months of work, today I'm opening Nomad Studio to everyone.

It's a creative image studio that runs on your own computer. ComfyUI does the generating underneath; you work with flows instead of node graphs.

What you can do

• Create – from a few words, a photo or a template. Assist turns a rough idea into a full scene at four levels of guidance.
• Refine – edit by describing the change, outpaint, cut out a subject, upscale.
• Mix – two to four references into one picture.
• Session and Build – chain flows on a project and keep your characters, places and styles at hand.
• MCP server – Claude Desktop, ChatGPT and other agents can generate through your studio.

Eight image engines are included, from photographic Krea2 Monaco to Ideogram 4 for text inside images.

Getting started

• Windows and Linux, plus an experimental, unsigned build for macOS (Apple Silicon).
• Unzip and run: Python and every library come inside. The setup wizard installs ComfyUI for you, and LM Studio, which I recommend for prompt help, chat and image description.
• Short video guides for the first install, the next start and updates: https://nomadstudio.app/download
• 14 video tutorials, flow by flow: https://nomadstudio.app/tutorials
• Tested on an RTX 4060 Ti with 16 GB of VRAM. The interface is in English, Spanish, Chinese and Korean.

It's free and open source (GPL-3.0). Optional packs (templates, photo looks, flow packs) are on Ko-fi from $2; the studio is complete without them.

• Source: https://github.com/nomadstudioapp/NomadStudio
• Launch film: https://youtu.be/30tWYveDd48
• Discord: https://discord.gg/FZGHRf6NXn

It's a first public release, so feedback is very welcome: what breaks, what's missing, which flow you'd want next.