Draw Things: Offline AI Art

Generate AI images and cinematic videos completely offline on your Apple devices with zero subscriptions, full privacy, and advanced model customization.

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About Draw Things: Offline AI Art

Draw Things is an offline, on-device AI studio engineered specifically for Apple hardware, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision. The application enables users to generate high-quality images and videos locally without routing data through remote servers or relying on active internet connections. By executing computation on-device, Draw Things ensures that all prompts, generation parameters, and resulting media remain strictly private and stored on the user's local machine. The app operates as a comprehensive diffusion suite supporting modern open architectures such as SDXL, FLUX.1, FLUX.2, Qwen Image, Wan 2.2, and MiniMax H3. Users have access to granular creative controls, including text-to-image, image-to-image, AI video generation, inpainting, outpainting, pose editing, and infinite canvas tools. Furthermore, it supports deep customization through community model imports, textual inversion embeddings, ControlNet modules, and on-device LoRA training and execution. Draw Things is primarily designed for digital artists, AI researchers, concept designers, and privacy-conscious creators who require granular configuration and complete data confidentiality. Unlike consumer-oriented mobile apps that rely on cloud subscriptions and simplified text boxes, it caters to power users who want desktop-grade Stable Diffusion control directly on their portable devices or Apple Silicon Macs. What sets Draw Things apart is its extreme optimization for Apple Silicon's neural engine and GPU architectures (M1, M2, M3, and modern A-series chips). It delivers an entirely free, unthrottled local generation workflow without mandatory cloud credits or token limits. While optional cloud compute bundles are available for heavier workloads, users retain the freedom to run, customize, and iterate on complex diffusion models natively at no cost.

Draw Things: Offline AI Art pros & cons

Pros

  • Completely free for local generation without ads or mandatory token subscriptions.
  • Ensures complete privacy by keeping all prompts and generated artwork strictly on the local device.
  • Provides advanced desktop-grade controls like LoRA imports, textual inversion, and ControlNet.
  • Highly optimized for Apple Silicon neural architecture across Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Vision Pro.

Cons

  • Heavy compute loads cause significant battery drain and device heating on older iPhones.
  • Devices with limited RAM (such as 3GB RAM models) may experience crashes when loading large models.
  • The dense interface and technical diffusion settings create a steep learning curve for complete beginners.

Draw Things: Offline AI Art use cases

  • Digital artists and illustrators can use ControlNet, inpainting, and outpainting on an iPad to sketch and iteratively refine artwork.
  • Privacy-focused creators can generate confidential visual assets on their Mac or iPhone without uploading data to third-party servers.
  • AI researchers and enthusiasts can import community LoRAs and test modern diffusion models like FLUX locally on Apple Silicon.

Draw Things: Offline AI Art features

  • optional cloud compute boost options for intensive rendering
  • native optimization for apple silicon m1, m2, and m3 chips
  • text-to-image and image-to-image generation workflows
  • inpainting, outpainting, and infinite canvas tools
  • full controlnet, pose editing, and scribble-to-image support
  • on-device lora training and community model importing
  • support for cutting-edge diffusion models like sdxl, flux, and qwen image
  • 100% offline, on-device ai image and video generation

Draw Things: Offline AI Art pricing

Is Draw Things: Offline AI Art free? Yes, Draw Things: Offline AI Art has a free plan, and paid plans start at $0.99 / one-time.

Draw Things+

$8.99 / one-time

  • In-app purchase add-on
  • Full suite of offline generation tools

Boost Bundle S

$0.99 / one-time

  • Cloud compute boost credits

Boost Bundle M

$4.99 / one-time

  • Cloud compute boost credits

Boost Bundle L

$19.99 / one-time

  • Cloud compute boost credits

Free Local Creation

Free

  • 100% offline, on-device generation
  • No generation limits or tokens required
  • Access to diffusion models like SDXL and FLUX
  • ControlNet, LoRA support, and pose editing
  • Inpainting, outpainting, and infinite canvas
  • Native Apple Silicon optimization

Draw Things: Offline AI Art FAQs

Does Draw Things require an active internet connection to generate art?

No, Draw Things generates images and video 100% offline directly on your device. An internet connection is only needed when downloading new models, importing LoRAs, or using optional cloud compute features.

Which Apple devices are compatible with Draw Things?

The application requires iOS 15.4 or later on iPhone and iPod touch, iPadOS 15.4 or later on iPad, macOS 12.4 or later on Mac, and visionOS 1.0 or later on Apple Vision devices.

Can I import custom community models and LoRAs?

Yes, Draw Things supports importing community-made diffusion models, textual inversions, and LoRAs, and it even allows on-device LoRA training.

Can older iPhones run Draw Things properly?

While older devices like the iPhone SE (2nd gen) can run the app, devices with 3GB of RAM or older chips may experience crashes, slower generation times, device heating, and increased battery drain.

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