How to use Imagegen Mac: what you can do with it

3 use cases

• Generate images offline on your Mac

  Build the app, download the model, and generate images with readable text on your GPU.

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  • Content
  • Intermediate
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  Build ph1lb4/imagegen-mac, generate <prompt> with text in the image, and confirm the text is readable and no network calls were made after the model download.

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• Let Claude Code generate images while it builds

  Connect the app's MCP server so your coding agent creates images for your project.

  • REPO ph1lb4/imagegen-mac
  • Claude Code
  • Content
  • Intermediate
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  With the imagegen MCP server connected, generate a hero image for <project> and save it to <path>. Confirm the file exists and was made locally.

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• Edit an existing image with an instruction

  Use the image editing mode to change an image from a text instruction.

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  Edit <image> in ImageGen with the instruction <change> and save the result. Describe what changed.

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Quick start with Imagegen Mac

1. Check you have what it needs: Apple silicon Mac with about 64 GB unified memory (the model needs about 33 GB); uv for the Python engine.
2. Open ph1lb4/imagegen-mac on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run git clone https://github.com/ph1lb4/imagegen-mac.git and cd imagegen-mac
4. Build with ./scripts/build-app.sh
5. Open with open build/ImageGen.app and let it download the model
6. Generate from a text prompt

These steps come from our top use case, Generate images offline on your Mac, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for ph1lb4/imagegen-mac

claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp

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About this repo

• Who it is forMac users with large unified memory who want private, offline image generation and agents that can make images.
• Why it is hot12 stars, launched 25 days ago, picked up by one AI source we track
• LanguageSwift
• Sourcegithub.com/ph1lb4/imagegen-mac · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Apple silicon Mac with about 64 GB unified memory (the model needs about 33 GB)
• uv for the Python engine

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