Introduction

StabilityMatrix, developed by LykosAI, is a multi-platform package manager and inference UI for Stable Diffusion. It aims to simplify the management and utilization of various Stable Diffusion packages, offering a one-click install and update mechanism, embedded dependencies, and a reimagined user interface.

Core Features

Multi-Platform Package Management

StabilityMatrix supports an extensive range of Stable Diffusion packages, allowing users to manage plugins and extensions, and install or update Python dependencies easily. The system is designed to be fully portable, enabling users to move their data directory between different drives or computers seamlessly.

Supported packages include:

• Stable Diffusion WebUI Forge
• Automatic 1111 (including DirectML)
• SD Web UI-UX
• SD.Next
• Fooocus (various versions)
• ComfyUI
• StableSwarmUI
• VoltaML
• InvokeAI
• SDFX
• Kohya’s GUI
• OneTrainer

Inference UI

StabilityMatrix features a powerful inference interface with auto-completion, syntax highlighting, customizable dockable panels, and support for project files (.smproj). It provides a streamlined environment for managing and utilizing Stable Diffusion capabilities, with drag-and-drop functionality for ease of use.

Launcher and Terminal Emulator

The integrated launcher comes with a syntax-highlighted terminal emulator, allowing users to configure launch arguments and environment variables for each package. This ensures a tailored and efficient workflow for different use cases.

Checkpoint Manager

The Checkpoint Manager is designed to be shared across all package installs, offering the capability to find and display CivitAI metadata and preview thumbnails for new local imports. This feature enhances the organization and management of models.

Model Management

The built-in model browser allows users to import models from popular repositories like CivitAI and HuggingFace. It supports automatic metadata and preview image downloads, with functionality for pausing and resuming downloads even after the application is closed. The shared model directory enables easy local model imports via drag-and-drop, with options to find connected metadata for existing models.

Localization

StabilityMatrix is available in multiple languages thanks to community contributions, including English, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, German, and Portuguese.

Community and Support

StabilityMatrix is an open-source project licensed under the AGPL-3.0, with binaries and executables available under a specific End User License Agreement (EULA). The project encourages community contributions and offers support through its GitHub repository and Discord server.

Conclusion

StabilityMatrix by LykosAI stands out as a comprehensive solution for managing and utilizing Stable Diffusion packages. Its multi-platform support, powerful inference UI, extensive package management features, and robust model handling capabilities make it an invaluable tool for developers and users in the AI and machine learning community. I personally suggest you to give it a try. Once you have StabilityMatrix installed, I would start with installing Fooocus and get a little used to AI image geration with it. Once you feel confortable with prompts, checkpoints and LoRA’s use and some of the basic settings Fooocus offers, you can move to a more advanced tool like InvokeAI or SD.Next. Be careful about Auto1111 and ComfyUI as these two are the most complex of all the tools available (btw, SD.Next is implentation of Auto1111 with a better UI).

For more detailed information and to explore the repository, visit the StabilityMatrix GitHub page.