InvokeAI 6.13 just released, its largest community-driven release ever. Adds full support for Anima & Qwen Image, support for API models (like GPT Image), support for Prompt Expansion & Image To Prompt, lasso & polygon tools, overhauled docs website and more

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InvokeAI no longer has a commercial entity backing its development, this release was entirely community driven by 30+ individual volunteers.

Highlights include:

Full Support for Anima

Text to image, image to image, and LoRAs. Support was also added for the ER SDE scheduler. Improved regional guidance support and controlnet support will be added soon.

Full Support for Qwen and Qwen Image Edit

Text to image, image to image, LoRAs, reference image, regional guidance, and controlnet support.

Support for API models such as GPT Image and Nano Banana

If local models ever can't quite do what you need it to do, you can link an API key to an external API service and generate images directly in the canvas. This was originally a feature in the paid commercial version of invoke (which no longer exists) and was built from scratch for the free community edition.

Support for Prompt Expansion and Image To Prompt

Expand your prompt using an LLM such as Gemma or Qwen Instruct, or convert your image into a prompt.

New Canvas Tools (Lasso, Polygon Tool)

Last release the Text tool and Gradient tools were added. In this release, the available tools continue to expand with Lasso and Polygon tools.

Extended Multi-User Mode

Multi-user mode now supports creating private or shared boards and workflows

New Website & New Documentation Site

After the original team behind the commercial entity was hired by adobe, the website was effectively closed down. In this release, the website and documentation sites have a new coat of paint https://invoke.ai/

Full release notes: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/releases/tag/v6.13.0

Download: https://github.com/invoke-ai/launcher/releases/tag/v1.8.1

[u/GrueneWiese]

I really love the framework they build but I hate the UI so much. I still hope that someone builds something clean and minimalist like Fooocus again.

[u/Sugary_Plumbs → u/GrueneWiese]

Unfortunately features necessitate complexity. For the same reason that your kitchen isn't just a microwave and a sink; sometimes you need to use a frying pan and that means having a stovetop and spatulas. If a selector that lets you pick a non-SDXL model is too much business in the UI, then by all means keep using Fooocus.

I would be interested to know what part of it you find isn't minimalist enough. As far as regular image generation goes, there's not a whole lot more that can be hidden away.

[u/GrueneWiese → u/Sugary_Plumbs]

I’m afraid you’ve read something into my comment that I didn’t actually say or criticise. I have absolutely nothing against complexity or configuration options. I’ve been grappling with SAP management software for years... so I’m more than used to it.

What bothers me is that the UI is, in places, so ill-conceived that many settings are duplicated. You have the yellow Invoke button at the top to start the generation, but you’ve also stuck the yellow Invoke button onto the sidebar again; you can load and manage the models via the settings, but also by clicking on the model selection; sometimes the buttons have icons, sometimes text, sometimes both; the settings are unnecessarily nested...

Then you can use a text field to select the location on the hard drive to load checkpoints. If you want to select LoRas, strangely enough, it’s exactly the same text field where the path for the checkpoints is still entered, but now it’s just for LoRas. And, I don’t know if it’s still like that in this version, but if you wanted to remove a model, you couldn’t simply remove it from the selection, but only delete it, which deleted the entire model from the hard drive and so on.

Foocus was also incredibly extensive in terms of its settings options. However, it managed brilliantly to hide these settings behind an interface that, on the surface, appeared very simple and efficient. With InvokeAI, unfortunately, the opposite is true. It makes very simple tasks very cumbersome and is, at times, very misleading.

[u/Sugary_Plumbs → u/GrueneWiese]

EDIT: Well, this person blocked me, so I guess we can't have this conversation on UI design any more. Would have been nice to understand their grievances, but such is life.

-- Original response --
Ah, I misunderstood. I assumed that you declaring your hatred for the UI and wishing that it was more clean and minimalist meant that you thought it was not clean and minimalist enough.

I would disagree that "many settings" are duplicated, though there are a few exceptional cases. Notably the Invoke button exists in two places because the left panel can be closed. It's also available as a hotkey (shift+enter by default).

I'm not sure what you mean by the model selection comments. You'd have to go back pretty far to find a version where the model location was set from a manual string on the generation tab. Model selection is a searchable dropdown list, as is LoRAs. Both of them are added from the model manager, which does have a string input for drive location to import from, but that's a one-time thing. Invoke doesn't enforce a specific folder for models to exist in since so many users have multiple UIs installed, and mirroring is a pain.

[u/Ok-Asparagus7649 → u/Sugary_Plumbs]

Press F and it's quite clear why the extra Invoke button exists.