# Sanster/IOPaint

Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. Remove any unwanted object, defect, people from your pictures or erase and replace(powered by stable diffusion) any thing on your pictures.

Repository: https://github.com/Sanster/IOPaint
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/iopaint
Homepage: https://www.iopaint.com/
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: inpainting, pytorch, lama, latent-diffusion, mat, zits, stable-diffusion
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-04-29T02:13:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 18, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1752, "days_push": 492, "days_rel": 648, "gap_med": 21, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 23348, forks 2518 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:34.725172+00:00)

## What it is
IOPaint is a free, open-source, self-hostable image inpainting and outpainting tool powered by state-of-the-art AI models like LaMa and Stable Diffusion. It runs as a local web server with a browser UI, letting users erase unwanted objects, defects, or people from photos and replace or extend image content with generative models.

## Use cases
- remove unwanted objects or people from photos
- erase watermarks from images
- inpaint or replace parts of an image with AI
- outpaint to extend an image's borders
- self-host an AI photo cleanup tool
- remove defects from scanned or old photos
- batch process images to remove backgrounds or restore faces

## When to choose
- you want a free, fully self-hosted alternative to commercial object-removal tools
- you need both fast erase models (LaMa) and generative diffusion inpainting in one tool
- you want CPU, NVIDIA/AMD GPU, or Apple Silicon support with a browser UI
- you want plugins like GFPGAN, RealESRGAN, or background removal alongside inpainting

## When to avoid
- you need a polished commercial product with support guarantees
- you only want a lightweight non-AI photo editor
- you cannot download multi-GB model weights or lack GPU resources for diffusion models
- you need a mobile-first editing experience (though the companion OptiClean app covers macOS/iOS)

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, machine-learning, stable-diffusion, http-server, cli, gui, plugin-system
- domain: image-processing, artificial-intelligence, deep-learning, media, self-hosted
- platform: python, cross-platform, windows, self-hosted
- tags: inpainting, outpainting, object-removal, watermark-removal, lama, stable-diffusion, photo-editing, pytorch, web-ui, macos, linux, docker, gpu, web-server

## Member repositories
- Sanster/IOPaint (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:34.725172+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:44.593964+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Sanster/IOPaint (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:34.725172+00:00, sha d278f2566ea2)
  - homepage: https://www.iopaint.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:31.283667+00:00, sha 190d8a09ba61)
  - site_page: https://www.iopaint.com/install (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:31.292710+00:00, sha ca7b57bf73d2)
  - site_page: https://www.iopaint.com/install/try_online (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:31.294514+00:00, sha 891aff0b5dbe)
  - site_page: https://www.iopaint.com/install/windows_1click_installer (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:31.296113+00:00, sha 03dc3a2e4388)
  - site_page: https://www.iopaint.com/install/download_model (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:31.297664+00:00, sha 8b8ed0fbd367)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/iopaint/json (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:31.299269+00:00, sha b6fae2fa6d5f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.