# InvokeAI

6 Hacker News commenters recommended InvokeAI and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend InvokeAI as an intuitive, open-source interface for image generation, especially for outpainting, inpainting and regional workflows.

## Why people recommend it

- Hands-on experience with good results (2 comments): "I've used image generation with invokeAI to do some genuinely useful things" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734580)) "zit in invoke has been amazing to use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658327))
- Promising, actively developed open-source project (2 comments): "It looks quite promising, thanks for the heads-up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46175457)) "the open source app is now on a tear" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602476))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ComfyUI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/comfyui.md): 70 recommend
- [Draw Things](https://hackerapproved.com/p/draw-things.md): 9 recommend
- [Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/automatic1111.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "InvokeAI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/invokeai/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).