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The best open-source image and video generation tools in 2026

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Sep 11, 2026
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Diffusion pipelines, video models, editors and the interfaces built on top of them.

Mostly written in TypeScript, HTML, JavaScript, Jupyter Notebook and Python.

How this list is ranked. By total GitHub stars at the last daily refresh — a popularity signal, not a measure of quality, fit or safety. Star counts in the AI category are known to be inflated by fake-star campaigns, so each row leads with push activity and license instead. No commit in this collection has completed security review yet, so treat every entry as unreviewed discovery metadata.
  1. 1Vincentwei1021 organisation mark

    video-shotcraft

    Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft

    AI video skill for Claude Code & Codex — cinematic product videos with Remotion: 152 shot recipe cards, 209 motion previews, a production-ready template

    Pushed 5 days ago.Apache License 2.0TypeScriptSkills16.4k+2.4k
  2. 2nexu-io organisation mark

    html-video

    nexu-io/html-videoSlowing

    Programmatic video for coding agents — HTML to video on your laptop. Turn HTML, CSS & data into real MP4s with pluggable render engines, 21 templates, AI soundtrack. Apache-2.0, no per-render fees. An official project by the Open Design team.

    Last push 5 months ago.Apache License 2.0HTMLAgents4.8k+40
  3. 3Anil-matcha organisation mark

    Open-Generative-AI

    Anil-matcha/Open-Generative-AI

    Unrestricted Open-source alternative to AI video platforms — Free AI image & video generation studio with 600+ models (Flux, Midjourney, Kling, Sora, Veo). No content filters. Self-hosted, MIT licensed.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseJavaScriptApps32.1k+495
  4. 4HBAI-Ltd organisation mark

    Toonflow-app

    HBAI-Ltd/Toonflow-app

    Toonflow 是开源一站式 AI 短剧创作工具,将小说、剧本快速转化为动画短剧。集成 AI 编剧、智能分镜、角色与视频生成,跨平台桌面端轻量部署,助力创作者低成本批量产出视觉内容。Toonflow is an open-source AI tool that turns stories and scripts into animated short dramas. Features AI scriptwriting, storyboarding, character and video generation. A cross-platform desktop app for efficient content creation.

    Pushed 2 days ago.Apache License 2.0TypeScriptApps20.3k+726
  5. 5FoundationVision organisation mark

    VAR

    FoundationVision/VARSlowing

    [NeurIPS 2024 Best Paper Award][GPT beats diffusion🔥] [scaling laws in visual generation📈] Official impl. of "Visual Autoregressive Modeling: Scalable Image Generation via Next-Scale Prediction". An *ultra-simple, user-friendly yet state-of-the-art* codebase for autoregressive image generation!

    Last push 12 months ago.MIT LicenseJupyter NotebookApps8.8k+3
  6. 6Osmantic organisation mark

    ODS

    Osmantic/ODS

    Turn your PC, Mac, or Linux box into an AI server. LLM inference, chat UI, voice, agents, workflows, RAG, and image generation.

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonDeveloper tools7.8k+53
  7. 7open-mmlab organisation mark

    mmagic

    open-mmlab/mmagicDormant

    OpenMMLab Multimodal Advanced, Generative, and Intelligent Creation Toolbox. Unlock the magic 🪄: Generative-AI (AIGC), easy-to-use APIs, awsome model zoo, diffusion models, for text-to-image generation, image/video restoration/enhancement, etc.

    No push in 2.2 years ago.Apache License 2.0Jupyter NotebookApps7.5k+4
  8. 8wuyoscar organisation mark

    GPT-Image2-Skill

    wuyoscar/GPT-Image2-Skill

    GPT Image 2/2.5 prompt gallery, image prompt library, agentic skill, and CLI for OpenAI image generation/editing

    Pushed 1 months ago.MIT LicensePythonSkills6.0k+89
  9. 9AUTOMATIC1111 organisation mark

    stable-diffusion-webui

    AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webuiSlowing

    Stable Diffusion web UI

    Last push 8 months ago.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0PythonApps165.2k+78
  10. 10Comfy-Org organisation mark

    ComfyUI

    Comfy-Org/ComfyUI

    The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface.

    Pushed yesterday.GNU General Public License v3.0PythonApps144.8k+1.3k
  11. 11unslothai organisation mark

    unsloth

    unslothai/unsloth

    Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonApps79.0k+386
  12. 12calesthio organisation mark

    OpenMontage

    calesthio/OpenMontage

    World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

    Pushed 6 days ago.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0PythonApps75.7k+3.4k
  13. 13mudler organisation mark

    LocalAI

    mudler/LocalAI

    LocalAI is the open-source AI engine. Run any model - LLMs, vision, voice, image, video - on any hardware. No GPU required.

    Pushed yesterday.MIT LicenseGoDeveloper tools50.2k+162
  14. 14sgl-project organisation mark

    sglang

    sgl-project/sglang

    SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonDeveloper tools38.4k+151
  15. 15khoj-ai organisation mark

    khoj

    khoj-ai/khojSlowing

    Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

    Last push 3 months ago.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0PythonAgents38.0k+124
  16. 16op7418 organisation mark

    guizang-ppt-skill

    op7418/guizang-ppt-skill

    AI-agent Skill for generating polished HTML slide decks: editorial magazine and Swiss layouts, image prompts, social covers, and a WebGL/low-power presentation runtime.

    Pushed 5 days ago.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0HTMLSkills29.2k+441
  17. 17invoke-ai organisation mark

    InvokeAI

    invoke-ai/InvokeAI

    Invoke is a leading creative engine for Stable Diffusion models, empowering professionals, artists, and enthusiasts to generate and create visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. The solution offers an industry leading WebUI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0PythonApps29.0k+90
  18. 18waooAI organisation mark

    waoowaoo

    waooAI/waoowaoo

    首家工业级全流程 AI 影视生产平台。Industry-first professional AI Agent platform for controllable film & video production. From shorts to live-action with Hollywood-standard workflows.

    Pushed 1 months ago.OtherTypeScriptAgents14.8k+74
  19. 19helloianneo organisation mark

    ian-xiaohei-illustrations

    helloianneo/ian-xiaohei-illustrations

    中文小黑怪诞正文配图生成 Skill | 16:9 白底手绘 | 少量红橙蓝批注 | Codex Skill

    Pushed 8 days ago.MIT LicenseSkills13.1k+165
  20. 20lucidrains organisation mark

    DALLE2-pytorch

    lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorchDormant

    Implementation of DALL-E 2, OpenAI's updated text-to-image synthesis neural network, in Pytorch

    No push in 2.5 years ago.MIT LicensePythonApps11.3k+1
  21. 21openvinotoolkit organisation mark

    openvino

    openvinotoolkit/openvino

    OpenVINO™ is an open source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference

    Pushed yesterday.Apache License 2.0C++Developer tools11.1k+27
  22. 22Acly organisation mark

    krita-ai-diffusion

    Acly/krita-ai-diffusion

    Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.

    Pushed 1 months ago.GNU General Public License v3.0PythonPlugins10.8k+32
  23. 23Stability-AI organisation mark

    StableStudio

    Stability-AI/StableStudioDormant

    Community interface for generative AI

    No push in 2.5 years ago.MIT LicenseTypeScriptUI / Frontend9.0k
  24. 24lucidrains organisation mark

    imagen-pytorch

    lucidrains/imagen-pytorchDormant

    Implementation of Imagen, Google's Text-to-Image Neural Network, in Pytorch

    No push in 2.1 years ago.MIT LicensePythonApps8.4k
  25. 25op7418 organisation mark

    guizang-social-card-skill

    op7418/guizang-social-card-skill

    🪧 Claude Code / Codex skill — generate Xiaohongshu carousels & WeChat 21:9+1:1 cover pairs. Editorial × Swiss visual systems, 28 layouts, 10 themes, single-file HTML → PNG. 小红书图文 + 公众号封面对

    Pushed 5 days ago.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0HTMLSkills7.9k+148
  26. 26AbdullahAlfaraj organisation mark

    Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion-Plugin

    AbdullahAlfaraj/Auto-Photoshop-StableDiffusion-PluginDormant

    A user-friendly plug-in that makes it easy to generate stable diffusion images inside Photoshop using either Automatic or ComfyUI as a backend.

    No push in 2.5 years ago.MIT LicenseTypeScriptPlugins7.3k+4
  27. 27dramaclaw organisation mark

    dramaclaw

    dramaclaw/dramaclaw

    A general-purpose AIGC video engine: script to finished film in one pipeline — dramas, ads, product videos, otome games, and more. | 通用 AIGC 视频引擎 —— 从剧本到成片一条流水线,漫剧、广告、电商、乙游皆可

    Pushed yesterday.OtherPythonDeveloper tools7.1k+569
  28. 28wiltodelta organisation mark

    remove-ai-watermarks

    wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks

    Remove visible and invisible AI watermarks and provenance metadata from images and video. Python library and CLI for SynthID, C2PA, EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and common generative-AI marks.

    Pushed 2 days ago.Apache License 2.0PythonDeveloper tools6.3k+117
  29. 29ArcReel organisation mark

    ArcReel

    ArcReel/ArcReel

    AI Agent 驱动的开源可自部署视频工作台:将小说与剧本转为角色、场景、道具资产、分镜、视频和剪映草稿,支持跨镜头一致性、多供应商与费用追踪 | Self-hosted AI video workspace for stories, storyboards and short-form video production

    Pushed yesterday.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0PythonApps6.1k+340
  30. 30HanaokaYuzu organisation mark

    Gemini-API

    HanaokaYuzu/Gemini-API

    ✨ Reverse-engineered Python API for Google Gemini web app

    Pushed 26 days ago.GNU Affero General Public License v3.0PythonApps3.8k+144
  31. 31deforum organisation mark

    sd-webui-deforum

    deforum/sd-webui-deforumDormant

    Deforum extension for AUTOMATIC1111's Stable Diffusion webui

    No push in 2.2 years ago.OtherPythonPlugins2.9k
  32. 32koishijs organisation mark

    novelai-bot

    koishijs/novelai-botDormant

    Generate images by NovelAI | 基于 NovelAI 的画图机器人

    No push in over a year ago.MIT LicenseTypeScriptPlugins2.6k+3
  33. 33SamurAIGPT organisation mark

    Generative-Media-Skills

    SamurAIGPT/Generative-Media-Skills

    Multi-modal Generative Media Skills for AI Agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI). High-quality image, video, and audio generation powered by muapi.ai.

    Pushed 1 months ago.MIT LicenseShellSkills32+7