Maple Diffusion runs Stable Diffusion models locally on macOS / iOS devices, in Swift, using the MPSGraph framework (not Python).

Maple Diffusion should be capable of generating a reasonable image in a minute or two on a recent iPhone (I get around ~2.3s / step on an iPhone 13 Pro).

To attain usable performance without tripping over iOS’s 4GB memory limit, Maple Diffusion relies internally on FP16 (NHWC) tensors, operator fusion from MPSGraph, and a truly pitiable degree of swapping models to device storage.

On macOS, Maple Diffusion uses slightly more memory (~6GB), to reach <1s / step.

Projects using Maple Diffusion

• https://github.com/mortenjust/maple-diffusion/ is a fork with several improvements

Device Requirements

Maple Diffusion should run on any Apple Silicon Mac (M1, M2, etc.). Intel Macs should also work now thanks to this PR.

Maple Diffusion should run on any iOS device with sufficient RAM (≥6144MB RAM definitely works; 4096MB might but I wouldn’t bet on it; anything lower than that won’t work). That means recent iPads should work out of the box, and recent iPhones should work if you can get the Increase Memory Limit capability working (to unlock 4GB of RAM). Unfortunately, iPhone 14 variants seemingly do not honor the increased memory limit, so they won’t work yet.

Maple Diffusion currently expects Xcode 14 and iOS 16; other versions may require changing build settings or just not work. iOS 16.1 (beta) is reportedly broken and always generating a gray image.

Usage

To build and run Maple Diffusion:

1. Download a Stable Diffusion PyTorch model checkpoint (sd-v1-4.ckpt, or some derivation thereof)

2. Download this repo

   git clone https://github.com/madebyollin/maple-diffusion.git && cd maple-diffusion

3. Setup & install Python with PyTorch, if you haven’t already.

   # may need to install conda first https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge#homebrew
   conda deactivate
   conda remove -n maple-diffusion --all
   conda create -n maple-diffusion python=3.10
   conda activate maple-diffusion
   pip install torch typing_extensions numpy Pillow requests pytorch_lightning

4. Convert the PyTorch model checkpoint into a bunch of fp16 binary blobs.

   ./maple-convert.py ~/Downloads/sd-v1-4.ckpt

5. Open the maple-diffusion Xcode project. Select the device you want to run on from the Product > Destination menu.

6. Manually add the Increased Memory Limit capability to the maple-diffusion target (this step might not be needed on iPads, but it’s definitely needed on iPhones – the default limit is 3GB).

7. Build & run the project on your device with the Product > Run menu.

Maple Diffusion on GitHub: https://github.com/madebyollin/maple-diffusion
Platform: iOS
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