Open Source
Curated open-source projects across the full video creator lifecycle — inspiration research, scripting, asset collection, asset download, generation, repurposing & distribution, and publishing optimization.
34 projects

Stable Diffusion WebUI
A1111 WebUI: richest plugin ecosystem

ComfyUI
Node-graph diffusion model engine, de-facto standard for the SD ecosystem

yt-dlp
1500+ site video/audio CLI downloader, the active youtube-dl fork

MoneyPrinterTurbo
From topic to short video in one click

Stable Diffusion
The first open-source latent text-to-image diffusion model, where the AI painting era began

Whisper
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition de-facto standard, 99 languages + multi-size models

Fooocus
Midjourney feel, fewer prompts, local

Scrapy
Industrial-grade Python crawler framework, large-scale structured scraping

Upscayl
Top open-source desktop AI upscaler

OpenMontage
First open-source agentic video studio

cobalt
Open-source media download API + Web UI for 22+ platforms, zero ads

Real-ESRGAN
Universal image/video super-resolution SOTA, BSD-3-Clause permissive, widest ecosystem

Open-Sora
Open-source Sora-grade video, 11B params

InvokeAI
Pro SD engine with Unified Canvas

Flux
Open-weight text-to-image and editing models from Black Forest Labs with strong prompt adherence

Open Generative AI
200+ models in one open-source studio

video-use
Edit videos by talking to agents

rembg
Python cross-platform background removal, U²-Net/ISNet/BiRefNet/SAM in one line

CogVideoX
Open-source text-to-video and image-to-video Transformer from Zhipu / Tsinghua THUDM, with strong Chinese support

SadTalker
CVPR 2023 audio-driven talking face animation, most mature ComfyUI node

Faster-Whisper
Whisper CTranslate2 accelerated, 4x faster + 50% less VRAM

ViMax
HKUDS open-source agentic video: director + screenwriter + producer

Toonflow
Open-source AI short-drama factory

EasyDiffusion
1-click installer, beginner-friendly SD

gallery-dl
Image/gallery CLI downloader for 200+ sites, Pixiv-first design

LivePortrait
KwaiVGI portrait animation SOTA, Apache-2.0 + ComfyUI node

BackgroundRemover
CLI background removal, image and video

ToonCrafter
SIGGRAPH 2024 sketch interpolation

ShortGPT
English one-stop short video automation framework

Auto-Editor
CLI AI video editor, auto-removes silence / stutter

MuseTalk
Tencent TMElyra real-time lip-sync, 30+ FPS inference

Storyboarder
Adobe Wonder Unit's open-source storyboarding tool, hand-draw + AI sketch

RMBG-1.4
BRIA AI commercial-use background-removal model, Apache-2.0 + ComfyUI node

TeleStyle
Content-preserving style transfer