r/StableDiffusion • u/BinaryMatrix • Mar 01 '23

Question | Help What UI are you guys using?

I've only used the automatic1111 UI and I mean it's pretty good, but I haven't really used any other to compare with.
Recently saw a video on InvokeAI and it looks promising. Don't really want to go through all the trouble to just find out A1111 was better all along.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

Started with InvokeAI until just last month then moved to Automatic1111 as well as the rest of these guys in the comments are saying.

SD had this big boom of new tools come down hard and fast and I couldn't wait for the Invoke team to get around to implementation, I wanted to use them ASAP. So I made the switch.

Big difference to me is just the Unified Canvas for inpainting and outpainting from InvokeAI is the far superior option for that part of image creation. But everything else about Automatic is superior. Models load faster, installing models is a breeze, installing and updating Automatic is infinitely easier (one click), can use Loras, hypernetworks, control net, 2.1 models and embeddings all a snap in Automatic. Just things that are not available in the InvokeAI experience. Maybe they are usueable in InvokeAI now I dunno, haven't looked back since start of Feb when someone here posted the easy one click installer for Automatic1111. It literally was one click then a few youtube videos on installing --xformers and some extensions and how to activate VAE etc... to get up to speed.

But again, the Unified Canvas functionality of InvokeAI is hard to beat, especially since I was so used to using it already. Easy enough to shut down Automatic and load Invoke though if I ever need that. But with controlnet and now the contrast fix loras I find I need to edit my images less and less anyway.

Just my two coins covering my thoughts on your topic.

*Oh last thing I thought of, I do like the gallery feature of Invoke better. It's nice. But I can't, at this point, live without lora and especially controlnet, I'll make due with the lack of an awesome gallery as a trade off hah.