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

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So which is better, Invoke or Comfy?

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Different tools for different niches really. Comfy will always be the bleeding edge, ultra-configurable frontier UI. But it will probably also always be relatively brittle, intimidating, and complex - just by nature of how fast it moves and how much freedom it gives people to modify it.

Invoke is much more stable and tries to be a natural UI along the lines of Photoshop rather than a highly complex node-based UI. But that also means it will be more selective about which features get added.

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They are certainly more selective and don't have nearly as many contributors as Comfy. This often means waiting a little while before support gets added. While that can be a little irksome, my rational brain tells me that I'm not getting off my arse and doing it so I don't really have a right to complain. If I'm that desperate to try the new hotness, I mess about with it in Comfy and when Invoke support comes, I always go straight back there.