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Kokon

Kokon is a free, open-source desktop app for editing and creating images with Qwen-Image 2.1 on the user's own GPU.

What Kokon does

The app runs an image model locally and lets users edit photos by typing a description of the change. Processing happens on the user's computer, and photos and prompts are not uploaded.

Built for

  • People who want the result on their own machine

Key features

  • Brush-based area editing with change, remove, replace or add options
  • Automatic size and memory settings with Fast, Balanced or Quality presets
  • Version history with compare, undo and branching
  • Private mode that saves no gallery, files or history
  • Prompt+ expands short ideas into detailed prompts
  • Support for user-supplied Qwen-Image 2.1 LoRA files, in beta
  • Built-in MCP server and local HTTP API for AI agents

See Kokon in action

From Kokon's own website.

Pros

Pros

  • Runs on the user's own hardware without an account or cloud upload.
  • Offers a built-in server that lets AI agents generate and edit images locally.

Where Kokon is listed

Kokon is listed under photo editing and retouching in Design and images AI tools.

See Claude skills for design and images.

Image generationBackground removalImage upscaling and restoration

Kokon alternatives

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All of Us

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DecorIn

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DecorIn edits photos of rooms, replacing single items and removing objects, which parallels Kokon's area editing but is aimed at interior redesign.

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Fotor

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Fotor is an online photo editor with AI object removal and background removal like Kokon, and adds image generation, a collage maker and batch editing.

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Jewels Retouch

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Jewels Retouch retouches photos for one product type, jewelry, where Kokon edits any photo, and adds jewelry-on-model scenes and video generation.

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Lookslate

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