A bespoke, highly adaptable, blazing fast user interface for Stable Diffusion, engineered for unmatched user experience and performance.

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• Mobile Responsive Design: Optimal display and usability across various devices.
• Versatile Micro-Template Engine: Leverage for enhanced functionality through other extensions.
• Customizable Theme Styles: User-friendly interface for theme customization.
• Styles Manager: Versatile database-driven styles management.
• Image Browser: High-performance database-powered image navigation.
• Civitai Images: Ultra-fast virtualized browser for Civitai images.
• Civitai Models: Ultra-fast virtualized browser for Civitai models.
• Built-in Console Log: Debugging capabilities for developers.
• Production and Development Modes: Dynamically compile the web UI UX using Vite directly from the interface.
• Ignore Overrides Option: Flexibility to maintain original settings when necessary.
• Enhanced Usability for Sliders: Input range sliders support tick marks for improved interaction.
• Toggle Input Modes: Switch between slider and numeric input modes for a compact interface.
• Compatible with Gradio 3 and 4: Works seamlessly with both Gradio 3 and Gradio 4 frameworks.

• Infinite Image Browsing Extension
• Deforum Extension
• Prompt-All-In-One Extension
• Aspect-Ratio-Helper Extension

• Redundant Checkpoints & Extra Networks: Removed redundant Checkpoints and Extra Networks (Textual Inversion, LoRA, Hypernetworks) from txt2img/img2img tabs. → Implemented single-instance infinite scroll to progressively load optimized assets + metadata from SQLite DB.
• Inline Event Listeners: Eradicating inline event listeners from "Extra Networks" cards and action buttons.
• Event Delegation Pattern: Applying an event delegation pattern to further streamline the code by consolidating event handling for "Extra Networks" cards and action buttons.
• Optimized Stylesheets: Enhanced visual coherence by substituting all default Gradio stylesheets in the DOM with an optimized version.
• Inline Styles & Svelte Classes: Improved efficiency by eliminating unnecessary inline styles and Svelte classes.
• Database-Powered: SQLite implementation enables rapid indexing/searching across: Extra Networks, Image Browser and Styles Manager.
• Virtualized Grid: Dynamic virtualized grid with memory/DOM efficiency for: Checkpoints, Textual Inversions, LoRA, Hypernetworks, Image Browser, Styles Manager, Civitai Images & Models.

Visual Comparison
Automatic1111 - Stable Diffusion web UI	Anapnoe - Stable Diffusion web UI UX

Visual Comparison
lllyasviel - Stable Diffusion web UI Forge	Anapnoe - Stable Diffusion web UI UX Forge

⚠️ Baseline metrics reflect measurements with all additional webui extensions disabled - particularly relevant for SD Forge's extensive collection - to ensure balanced comparisons; enabling these extensions raises event listeners beyond 16,000 and introduces significant test-run performance variability.

SD webUI UX implements event delegation + virtualized grid for O(1) performance scaling.

Stable Diffusion web UI & web UI Forge Constraints:

• DOM Bloat: Loads all assets → 10k LoRAs create 60k+ DOM nodes (10k images + 50k+ container elements)
• Listener Overload: ~5 listeners per asset → 50k+ listeners for 10K LoRAs
• O(n) Scaling: Linear performance degradation (Checkpoints, Textual Inversions, LoRAs, Hypernetworks)

Stable Diffusion web UI UX & web UI UX Forge optimized Architecture:

• Virtualized Grid: Renders only visible assets (~15 items in default viewport)
• Event Delegation: Single listener handles all interactions
• DOM Recycling: Dynamic pool manages thumbnail elements

🎯 Performance Outcome:

• Flat memory profile (≈50MB heap regardless of model assets library size)
• O(1) event handling complexity
• Instant scrolling with 100K+ assets

• Separate and organize CSS into individual files (in progress).
• Create documentation for component integration into UI/UX.
• Automatically update the Image Browser's SQLite database when files added or removed.
• Improve Civitai Models download manager.
• Add virtualization for Tree View component.
• Develop framework-specific npm packages for the UI/UX Dynamic Virtualized Grid component, supporting React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, and Qwik.

The workspaces extension empowers you to create customized views and organize them according to your unique preferences. With an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, you can design workflows that are perfectly tailored to your specific requirements, giving you ultimate control over your work environment.

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A sophisticated theme editor allowing you to personalize any aspect of the UI-UX. Tailor the visual experience of the user interface with the Advanced Theme Style configurator.

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Detailed feature showcase with images:

• Original txt2img and img2img modes
• One click install and run script (but you still must install python and git)
• Outpainting
• Inpainting
• Color Sketch
• Prompt Matrix
• Stable Diffusion Upscale
• Attention, specify parts of text that the model should pay more attention to
  • a man in a ((tuxedo)) - will pay more attention to tuxedo
  • a man in a (tuxedo:1.21) - alternative syntax
  • select text and press Ctrl+Up or Ctrl+Down (or Command+Up or Command+Down if you're on a MacOS) to automatically adjust attention to selected text (code contributed by anonymous user)
• Loopback, run img2img processing multiple times
• X/Y/Z plot, a way to draw a 3 dimensional plot of images with different parameters
• Textual Inversion
  • have as many embeddings as you want and use any names you like for them
  • use multiple embeddings with different numbers of vectors per token
  • works with half precision floating point numbers
  • train embeddings on 8GB (also reports of 6GB working)
• Extras tab with:
  • GFPGAN, neural network that fixes faces
  • CodeFormer, face restoration tool as an alternative to GFPGAN
  • RealESRGAN, neural network upscaler
  • ESRGAN, neural network upscaler with a lot of third party models
  • SwinIR and Swin2SR (see here), neural network upscalers
  • LDSR, Latent diffusion super resolution upscaling
• Resizing aspect ratio options
• Sampling method selection
  • Adjust sampler eta values (noise multiplier)
  • More advanced noise setting options
• Interrupt processing at any time
• 4GB video card support (also reports of 2GB working)
• Correct seeds for batches
• Live prompt token length validation
• Generation parameters
  • parameters you used to generate images are saved with that image
  • in PNG chunks for PNG, in EXIF for JPEG
  • can drag the image to PNG info tab to restore generation parameters and automatically copy them into UI
  • can be disabled in settings
  • drag and drop an image/text-parameters to promptbox
• Read Generation Parameters Button, loads parameters in promptbox to UI
• Settings page
• Running arbitrary python code from UI (must run with --allow-code to enable)
• Mouseover hints for most UI elements
• Possible to change defaults/mix/max/step values for UI elements via text config
• Tiling support, a checkbox to create images that can be tiled like textures
• Progress bar and live image generation preview
  • Can use a separate neural network to produce previews with almost none VRAM or compute requirement
• Negative prompt, an extra text field that allows you to list what you don't want to see in generated image
• Styles, a way to save part of prompt and easily apply them via dropdown later
• Variations, a way to generate same image but with tiny differences
• Seed resizing, a way to generate same image but at slightly different resolution
• CLIP interrogator, a button that tries to guess prompt from an image
• Prompt Editing, a way to change prompt mid-generation, say to start making a watermelon and switch to anime girl midway
• Batch Processing, process a group of files using img2img
• Img2img Alternative, reverse Euler method of cross attention control
• Highres Fix, a convenience option to produce high resolution pictures in one click without usual distortions
• Reloading checkpoints on the fly
• Checkpoint Merger, a tab that allows you to merge up to 3 checkpoints into one
• Custom scripts with many extensions from community
• Composable-Diffusion, a way to use multiple prompts at once
  • separate prompts using uppercase AND
  • also supports weights for prompts: a cat :1.2 AND a dog AND a penguin :2.2
• No token limit for prompts (original stable diffusion lets you use up to 75 tokens)
• DeepDanbooru integration, creates danbooru style tags for anime prompts
• xformers, major speed increase for select cards: (add --xformers to commandline args)
• via extension: History tab: view, direct and delete images conveniently within the UI
• Generate forever option
• Training tab
  • hypernetworks and embeddings options
  • Preprocessing images: cropping, mirroring, autotagging using BLIP or deepdanbooru (for anime)
• Clip skip
• Hypernetworks
• Loras (same as Hypernetworks but more pretty)
• A separate UI where you can choose, with preview, which embeddings, hypernetworks or Loras to add to your prompt
• Can select to load a different VAE from settings screen
• Estimated completion time in progress bar
• API
• Support for dedicated inpainting model by RunwayML
• via extension: Aesthetic Gradients, a way to generate images with a specific aesthetic by using clip images embeds (implementation of https://github.com/vicgalle/stable-diffusion-aesthetic-gradients)
• Stable Diffusion 2.0 support - see wiki for instructions
• Alt-Diffusion support - see wiki for instructions
• Now without any bad letters!
• Load checkpoints in safetensors format
• Eased resolution restriction: generated image's dimension must be a multiple of 8 rather than 64
• Now with a license!
• Reorder elements in the UI from settings screen

Make sure the required dependencies are met and follow the instructions available for:

• NVidia (recommended)
• AMD GPUs.
• Intel CPUs, Intel GPUs (both integrated and discrete) (external wiki page)
• Ascend NPUs (external wiki page)

Alternatively, use online services (like Google Colab):

• List of Online Services

1. Install Python 3.10.6 (Newer version of Python does not support torch), checking "Add Python to PATH".
2. Install git.
3. Download the stable-diffusion-webui repository, for example by running git clone https://github.com/anapnoe/stable-diffusion-webui-ux.git.
4. Run webui-user.bat from Windows Explorer as normal, non-administrator, user.

1. Install the dependencies:

# Debian-based:
sudo apt install wget git python3 python3-venv libgl1 libglib2.0-0
# Red Hat-based:
sudo dnf install wget git python3 gperftools-libs libglvnd-glx
# openSUSE-based:
sudo zypper install wget git python3 libtcmalloc4 libglvnd
# Arch-based:
sudo pacman -S wget git python3

If your system is very new, you need to install python3.11 or python3.10:

# Ubuntu 24.04
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.11

# Manjaro/Arch
sudo pacman -S yay
yay -S python311 # do not confuse with python3.11 package

# Only for 3.11
# Then set up env variable in launch script
export python_cmd="python3.11"
# or in webui-user.sh
python_cmd="python3.11"

2. Navigate to the directory you would like the webui to be installed and execute the following command:

wget -q https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anapnoe/stable-diffusion-webui-ux/master/webui.sh

Or just clone the repo wherever you want:

git clone https://github.com/anapnoe/stable-diffusion-webui-ux.git

3. Run webui.sh.
4. Check webui-user.sh for options.

Find the instructions here.

Here's how to add code to this repo: Contributing

The documentation was moved from this README over to the project's wiki.

For the purposes of getting Google and other search engines to crawl the wiki, here's a link to the (not for humans) crawlable wiki.

Licenses for borrowed code can be found in Settings -> Licenses screen, and also in html/licenses.html file.

• Stable Diffusion - https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion, https://github.com/CompVis/taming-transformers, https://github.com/mcmonkey4eva/sd3-ref
• k-diffusion - https://github.com/crowsonkb/k-diffusion.git
• Spandrel - https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/spandrel implementing
  • GFPGAN - https://github.com/TencentARC/GFPGAN.git
  • CodeFormer - https://github.com/sczhou/CodeFormer
  • ESRGAN - https://github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN
  • SwinIR - https://github.com/JingyunLiang/SwinIR
  • Swin2SR - https://github.com/mv-lab/swin2sr
• LDSR - https://github.com/Hafiidz/latent-diffusion
• MiDaS - https://github.com/isl-org/MiDaS
• Ideas for optimizations - https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion
• Cross Attention layer optimization - Doggettx - https://github.com/Doggettx/stable-diffusion, original idea for prompt editing.
• Cross Attention layer optimization - InvokeAI, lstein - https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI (originally http://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion)
• Sub-quadratic Cross Attention layer optimization - Alex Birch (Birch-san/diffusers#1), Amin Rezaei (https://github.com/AminRezaei0x443/memory-efficient-attention)
• Textual Inversion - Rinon Gal - https://github.com/rinongal/textual_inversion (we're not using his code, but we are using his ideas).
• Idea for SD upscale - https://github.com/jquesnelle/txt2imghd
• Noise generation for outpainting mk2 - https://github.com/parlance-zz/g-diffuser-bot
• CLIP interrogator idea and borrowing some code - https://github.com/pharmapsychotic/clip-interrogator
• Idea for Composable Diffusion - https://github.com/energy-based-model/Compositional-Visual-Generation-with-Composable-Diffusion-Models-PyTorch
• xformers - https://github.com/facebookresearch/xformers
• DeepDanbooru - interrogator for anime diffusers https://github.com/KichangKim/DeepDanbooru
• Sampling in float32 precision from a float16 UNet - marunine for the idea, Birch-san for the example Diffusers implementation (https://github.com/Birch-san/diffusers-play/tree/92feee6)
• Instruct pix2pix - Tim Brooks (star), Aleksander Holynski (star), Alexei A. Efros (no star) - https://github.com/timothybrooks/instruct-pix2pix
• Security advice - RyotaK
• UniPC sampler - Wenliang Zhao - https://github.com/wl-zhao/UniPC
• TAESD - Ollin Boer Bohan - https://github.com/madebyollin/taesd
• LyCORIS - KohakuBlueleaf
• Restart sampling - lambertae - https://github.com/Newbeeer/diffusion_restart_sampling
• Initial Gradio script - posted on 4chan by an Anonymous user. Thank you Anonymous user.
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