What is comfystudio?

ComfyStudio is a desktop application for editing videos and previsualizing scenes using AI generated images, video, and audio. It brings together a timeline editor, an asset browser, a stock footage search tool, a prompt helper connected to a local language model, and an export queue into one program, built around ComfyUI, a popular tool for running AI image and video generation workflows. Most people install ComfyStudio as a packaged desktop app for Windows or Mac rather than building it from source. The app does not include ComfyUI itself, so you need to install and run ComfyUI separately on your own machine, along with any custom nodes and models a particular workflow requires. ComfyStudio only talks to a ComfyUI instance running on your own computer, since remote and network connections are intentionally turned off in this build for security. One standout feature is Director Mode, which turns a structured text script describing scenes, shots, camera moves, and prompts into a sequence of AI generated keyframes and video clips. There is also a Stock tab that searches and imports footage from Pexels using your own API key, and an LLM tab that connects to a locally running LM Studio server to help refine prompts before generation. Because ComfyStudio depends on locally installed AI models, it labels workflows by hardware tier, ranging from lighter workflows that run on 6 to 8 gigabytes of graphics memory up to heavier ones that want 24 gigabytes or more. Some workflows instead run through cloud partner nodes and are billed by credits rather than local hardware. Developers who want to contribute can run the app from source using Electron and Node, with build scripts available for Windows, Mac, and Linux packages.