Draw Things: Offline AI Art 17+

An excellent app. Brings everything you need to explore generative models into one place. Does what it says on the tin - if you can describe it, it can draw it.

Only reason for not giving 5 stars: UI text is a bit small and could use a lot more guidance showing how to work with prior images. Also a batch mode for multiple projects would be useful.

This is a good app, but I made the mistake of connecting to the community within the app and tried rendering in the cloud. As soon as I did, all my Hunyuan videos began rendering with a cartoonish look. Disabling community rendering didn’t revert Hunyuan back to its original, realistic style. I had to reinstall the app and redownload all the models to fix it.

Overall, it’s a good app, but it’s far too buggy. There are other issues too, but the biggest problem is stability—it crashes even when there’s plenty of RAM available, so every render feels like a gamble. It’s a shame, because it’s the only proper Mac-native app available, aside from complex tools like ComfyUI. Honestly, an app like this really needs to be acquired by Apple so it can be fixed or properly rebuilt.

Update: the app forgets which models you have installed externally if you update the app, so, you can’t update it essentially. I’ve tested it and if using external models, the app forgets. Your choices are download to your internal drive or don’t use the app. I’d suggest to stay away from this app as it very very buggy and very poorly built. Learn comfyUI even though it’s slower on Mac.

Draw Things is a great app to help create artistic resources, resize and upscale and make interesting image ideas. Highly recommended.

One problem can be when on a slow connection and downloading that I had to re-download so a resume feature would be useful since the downloads can take a while. The modal window for downloads can also be slide downwards and accidentally be closed if you tap out of it.

In regards to downloading and in general the split screen view would be useful because it could allow to do something else whilst a download takes place. Also this could possibly be used for drag and drop loading of photos perhaps.

A feature that would be really amazing however is the use of Apple Shortcuts (Intents) where you could get/set prompts, change parameters, randomise the seed value and render images to the app or photos as a image file etc. It would also be great to be able to input a image this way from another app or photos using Shortcuts and then upscaling it with a selected algorithm using Shortcuts, then save to an image file.

Having URL Scheme options to launch with images etc would also be really useful to have available.