Draw Things, Inc.
Draw Things builds private, local-first AI software for Apple devices. Its flagship app lets people generate and edit images and video on-device, while optional cloud compute and developer tools extend the same inference stack to larger workloads and production apps.
At a Glance
- Individual creators and AI-art users
- Photographers, designers and visual-development teams
- Developers building media-generation applications
- Organizations requiring private, self-hosted or on-premise inference
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AI Tools by Draw Things, Inc.
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Local Code
On-Device AI Agent for Apple
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Latest News
Local Code by Draw Things announced as open-source frontier intelligence locally on Mac
Harvest Season: benchmarked Draw Things image/video inference across new Apple Silicon hardware and competing inference engines
Public beta of Local Code announced
MediaGenerationKit preview released for hybrid local, self-hosted and cloud media generation
Products & Services
Free iPhone, iPad and Mac app for local and offline AI image generation and editing. It supports downloaded open-weight models, inpainting, outpainting, infinite canvas, image-to-video, style transformation, and local LoRA training.
Optional managed or self-hosted inference for users whose devices are too weak, need larger models, or want to save local battery and storage. Server-Offload is open source and Cloud Compute runs the same published Docker-based inference image.
Paid tier providing higher cloud-compute limits, use of personal LoRAs with cloud compute, on-demand compute boosts and Privacy Pass.
Swift package for integrating open-weight image and video models into production apps, with local, self-hosted-cloud and Draw Things Cloud execution options.
Market Position
Draw Things differentiates from cloud-first image generators such as Midjourney and DALL·E by running locally and offline with privacy and no per-image local inference cost. Against local tools such as AUTOMATIC1111 and ComfyUI, it emphasizes a polished native Apple experience, a custom Metal/Neural-Engine inference stack, broad iPhone/iPad/Mac availability and integrated model downloading, editing and LoRA workflows. Local Code similarly competes with hosted coding agents by packaging capable models and tools locally in an Apple-sandboxed app.
Leadership
Founders
Liu Liu
Independent iOS and systems developer; wrote the iOS app for Snapchat (2014–2020) and helped found Facebook Videos (2013). He released the first Draw Things app in November 2022 and is the public founder/developer associated with the company.
Executive Team
Liu Liu
Founder and developer
iOS and systems developer; former Snapchat iOS app engineer (2014–2020) and co-founder of Facebook Videos (2013).
Founding Story
Draw Things began as Liu Liu's effort to make Stable Diffusion practical on an iPhone. The initial vision was to bring powerful image generation to ordinary mobile hardware while keeping inference local for privacy and avoiding dependence on cloud GPUs; the project later expanded across iPhone, iPad and Mac and added optional cloud offload.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Freemium software: free local inference and model downloads; optional account-based managed Cloud Compute; paid Draw Things+ subscription; enterprise deployment/on-premise licensing and integration; Cloud Compute API usage can also be pay-as-you-go.
Pricing Tiers
Local compute, model downloads, infinite canvas and local LoRA training.
Free cloud compute and Lab Hours plus Free Edition features.
Higher cloud-compute limits, personal LoRAs with Cloud Compute, on-demand boosts and Privacy Pass.
Organization-wide deployment, on-premise inference and integration of local inference or Cloud Compute into applications.
Target Markets
- Individual creators and AI-art users
- Photographers, designers and visual-development teams
- Developers building media-generation applications
- Organizations requiring private, self-hosted or on-premise inference
- Apple Silicon users and teams needing local/offline AI
- Developers and knowledge workers using local coding agents
- Private personal AI art and image creation
- Image editing, inpainting, outpainting and style transfer
- Image-to-video and other local media-generation workflows
- Local LoRA fine-tuning and model experimentation
- Cloud or self-hosted generation for larger models and weaker devices
- Embedding image/video generation in production Apple applications