# Draw Things

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Draw Things and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an easy way to run AI image models locally on Mac and iPhone, with recommended settings that need no fiddling. Caveat: one critic found it confusing for beginners.

## Why people recommend it

- Easy setup with recommended settings (4 comments): "Tap "Try recommended settings", have the guarantee that for whatever model it supports, it is the fastest in Mac ecosystem, no need to fiddle." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480921)) "Apps like LMStudio, Ollama, Draw Things, etc do a great job of simplifying it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855976)) "Draw Things is supposed to be pretty "batteries included" simple" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201966))
- Fast generation on Apple hardware (4 comments): "Tap "Try recommended settings", have the guarantee that for whatever model it supports, it is the fastest in Mac ecosystem, no need to fiddle." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480921)) "Draw Things runs on iPhone just fine and generally faster than their implementation on the same model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350273)) "Draw Things does the job, usually in 120 seconds or less." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683242))
- Runs newer image models locally (3 comments): "You can run newer models like Z Image Turbo or FLUX.2 [dev] using Draw Things with no effort too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371297)) "Try running liuliu's 'Draw Things' app, or any other tool that generates AI images locally." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47221877)) "You can easily run models like Mistral and Stable Diffusion in Ollama and Draw Things" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369919))

## What people warn about

- Hard for beginners (1 comments): "I did not find it beginner friendly. I remember feeling a lot of doubt, confusion, and frustration." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481789))
- Too many supported models (1 comments): "I think one of the issue Draw Things inherited is the baggage of supporting too much models." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49481875))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ComfyUI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/comfyui.md): 70 recommend
- [InvokeAI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/invokeai.md): 6 recommend
- [Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/automatic1111.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Draw Things", https://hackerapproved.com/p/draw-things/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).