Plakat
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What it does
- Animation
- Animation features include AnimateDiff and prompt-embedding interpolation, with MP4 or GIF output.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Editing
- Image editing features include img2img, inpainting, outpainting, ControlNet, object removal, background replacement, relighting, and upscaling.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Hardware requirements
- Plakat requires Rust 1.85 or later to install from source; its CPU-only default works across supported platforms but is described as slow at real image sizes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Image editing
- Editing features include img2img, inpainting, outpainting, multi-ControlNet, object selection and removal, background replacement, relighting, style transfer, and upscaling.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Image generation
- It supports seven model families, including Stable Diffusion, Flux, PixArt-Σ, Stable Cascade, and Sana.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The CLI can browse and download Civitai community models and assets, and model weights are pulled from HuggingFace and cached locally.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Library API
- The stable Rust library API provides builders for features including generation, image editing, portraits, animation, training, and verification.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository describes the software as free and unencumbered software released into the public domain under the Unlicense.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Local operation
- The README says Plakat runs locally on Candle without Python, PyTorch, or external services, and caches model weights locally.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Models
- It supports seven model families: SD 1.5/2.1, SDXL, SD 3.5, Flux, PixArt-Σ, Stable Cascade, and Sana.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Photo management
- The photo manager includes EXIF and metadata handling, HEIC and AVIF support, visual search, face clustering, and shared-volume collaboration.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy and services
- The README says Plakat runs locally with no external services and uses no Python or PyTorch.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Plakat describes itself as a local, pure-Rust creative studio for image generation, editing, compositing, training, animation, and structured-authoring tools.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Programming interface
- Plakat provides a stable Rust library API with builder interfaces for embedding its features in Rust applications.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Provenance
- Optional provenance etching writes an identifier using manifest, pixel, latent, and CLIP evidence layers; a verification command reads the resulting evidence.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Repeatability
- A seed makes renders repeatable on the same machine and backend, while cross-machine or cross-backend renders may differ; outputs include the recipe in PNG metadata and a JSON sidecar.checked 11 Oct 2026
- System requirements
- Building from source requires Rust 1.85 or later; the README says the CPU-only backend works everywhere but is slow at real image sizes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Training
- Users can train style LoRAs, DreamBooth subjects, and Textual Inversion embeddings.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Creative studios
- Structured-authoring tools create comics, product shots, PBR material sets, book art, fantasy maps, and fractal images.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platform limits
- The README lists prebuilt release archives for Windows x86_64, Linux x86_64 and aarch64, and Apple Silicon macOS; Intel Macs are not listed as a prebuilt target.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platforms
- The README lists prebuilt archives for Apple Silicon macOS, x86_64 and aarch64 Linux, and x86_64 Windows; macOS uses Metal, while Linux and Windows archives include CPU options.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Structured studios
- Its structured-authoring studios include tools for comics, product shots, PBR textures, book art, fantasy maps, and fractals.checked 11 Oct 2026
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