InvokeAI
Ranked 3 of 4 image generation interfaces by recommenders
People recommend InvokeAI as an intuitive, open-source interface for image generation, especially for outpainting, inpainting and regional workflows.
People recommend InvokeAI as an intuitive, open-source interface for image generation, especially for outpainting, inpainting and regional workflows.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 6 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Hands-on experience with good results
“I've used image generation with invokeAI to do some genuinely useful things”
Comment from 30 Jun 2026 in “DGX Spark vs. Mac Studio and Halo” “zit in invoke has been amazing to use”
Comment from 17 Jan 2026 in “FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence” Promising, actively developed open-source project
“It looks quite promising, thanks for the heads-up.”
Comment from 6 Dec 2025 in “Perl's decline was cultural” “the open source app is now on a tear”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “InvokeAI Commercial Platform Shuts Down, Open-Source Project Continues”
Other image generation interfaces people recommend
The three most recommended other image generation interfaces, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ComfyUI | 70 | 19 | 79% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Draw Things | 9 | 0 | 100% | 7 | — | — |
| InvokeAIThis page | 6 | 1 | 86% | 7 | — | — |
| Automatic1111 Stable Diffusion WebUI | 5 | 3 | 63% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
9 of the 10 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It easily has the nicest workflows for outpainting/regional/inpainting by far.”
“Things could be better, but they just weren't designed to be.”
“I've used image generation with invokeAI to do some genuinely useful things”
“invoke just works with existing apps, especially ones that are accessible”
“turns out that it's just a good DOM in general”
“a nice intuitive frontend such as InvokeAI instead of the heavily node-based ComfyUI”
“zit in invoke has been amazing to use”
“the open source app is now on a tear”
“It looks quite promising, thanks for the heads-up.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.