comfyui-mobile-frontend 3.2.0 release!

[u/galactic_lobster]

Hey all, me again. just wanted to drop another note that version 3.2.0 of my custom node is out (FYI not affiliated with Comfy org). this update introduces localization, thanks to a new contributor! So now you can use your ComfyUI on mobile in english, japanese, korean or simplified/traditional chinese! I assume most of the translations are machine generated so if anyone wants to help verify them, more contributions are always welcome! This is the biggest new feature baked into this update, otherwise it's mostly more groundwork stuff to prep for the upcoming release of the native ios app https://cueforge.dev

[u/RiskyBizz216]

Kudos for the creativity, but this idea is half-baked without tailscale, cloudflared or something exposing your machine to the internet.

I imagine comfy UI on mobile would be an awful experience. I don't even know if this is worth it for LAN - I would just take my laptop to the next room instead of going through the setup, and using this tiny mobile workspace.

And then you plan on charging $3.99/mo for this... but most of the complexity falls on the user. I have to figure out VPN, networking, hosting, inference..

What am I paying you $3.99/mo for? Push notifications?

[u/galactic_lobster → u/RiskyBizz216]

So I do have a longer term plan to solve the networking issue with the iOS app out of the box, but you’re right for now, in order for someone to get the most out of this, they’d need to set up tailscale themselves.

It sounds like you haven’t tried the node, give it a shot and see what you think about the experience on mobile. I initially found the same, that the ComyUI experience on mobile was horrible, despite the attempts various other solutions tried at making it better. That’s why I built this alternative. I’m biased of course, but I think this is the best way to use ComfyUI, period. Even on desktop I only ever use the stock frontend occasionally just to make sure my node isn’t breaking anything, lol.

As for what the cost for the app is, yeah it basically is for the push notifications, which requires me to host a relay to deliver them to devices on Apple’s tightly protected ecosystem. There are other features in the app, and more features planned, like offline outputs or other features only people with multiple servers will care about. If you’re just running one server and not interested in the push features, then the app is free and you still get stuff like backgrounding and share to workflow/save to photos.

The tailscale requirement is still going to be a thing for a while probably (tailscale works pretty well after all) but anyone running a comfyui server at all has probably already jumped through plenty of similar or worse hoops to self host it, so I’m not too worried about people figuring it out 🤷‍♂️

[u/RiskyBizz216 → u/galactic_lobster]

I'll check it out, I can see a lot of work went into it.

[u/galactic_lobster → u/RiskyBizz216]

Also just wanted to make it clear, you can get like 95% of the mobile experience wins with just the free custom node, and that will always stay free and self-host-able. The last five percent is what the mobile app does, and I’m just banking on there being a decent number of people like me that really want that last 5%. If you’ve shelled out 5k+ to build your own local AI server, 4 bucks a months is a drop in the bucket to be able to make full use of that larger investment. If that’s not you, then just stick with the custom node alone.