How to Install ComfyUI Mac (M1/M2/M3): Step-by-Step Guide

#stablediffusion #aiart #generativeart #aitools #comfyui
ComfyUI is a flexible GUI to interact with Stable Diffusion models. Here's how you can install it on Mac so you can start to experiment with it today.

# Time Stamps
Intro: 0:00
ComfyUI Repo: 0:17
Setting up Anaconda: 0:40
Installing Pytorch Nightly: 2:04
Validating the Installation: 2:39
Cloning the ComfyUI Repo: 3:34
Installing Requirements: 4:33
Launching ComfyUI: 5:08
Adding a Model: 6:02
Generating an Image: 6:50
Locating the Outputs Folder: 7:23
Outro: 8:39

ComfyUI Links:

Important links:

[AkshaySinghJamwal]

Thanks, this was really helpful. Short, sweet and to the point.

[dominichawgood]

this worked perfectly. thanks for the putting the time in on a really helpful tutorial!

[aaronwang]

Thanks so much for the turorial, really helpful and easy to follow up step by step!

[Oya-mwvi]

This was super helpful! Thank you so much.

[FreddyOropeza]

This video was super helpful, thank you for the explainer and step by step.

[Deluded_Penguin]

thanks so much -- simple and easy to follow!

[talktechy]

Thanks,
in my Mac M1. I installed Metal acceleration.
i still got this error”
torch.cuda.is_available() should be True but is False. xformers' memory efficient attention is only available for GPU “
when i tried to use some workflow. do you know how to fix ?

[mibesto]

Thanks for this concise and very helpful guide. I'm a total dweeb when it comes to working in the terminal, and your instructions made everything simple and straightforward. I still have so much to learn, but your video was the most helpful one I found to quickly and correctly load Comfy UI onto my MacBook Pro with an M1 processor.

[Qeuyt-toem]

Muchas gracias. Por fin he conseguido instalar comfyui en mi mac.

[raviswami]

How do you access the "manager" since it's missing in the base install ?

[RoopeBb]

Once again Great and well laid out video full of info and easy to follow.

Started to learn comfy but just can’t get my head around all the nodes and noodles. I’ll keep fiddling around with it as everyone’s saying it’s very versatile and you can really dive deep with it. Any course or video recommendations?

[michaelpatrignani]

Hi, i have a problem. Is the first time I use ComfyUI. When I shut down Mac, when I restart it, how can I open ComfyUI. When I open prompt and copy the line (python main.py --force-fp16) don't work... "python: can't open file [Errno 2] No such file or directory" was the error message.

[thetravelerz]

what happens if i didn't select yes to allow conda to overwrite my scripts in the beginning

[freemoney]

can i use this on my macbook air m1 2023 ?

[anokhatv]

Loved the video, but can someone explain the "Cloning the ComfyUI Repo" part. Still stuck there. I'm new to macbook

[daancouzijn]

I'm lost at the step on 02:40. I've copy/pasted the code python script in Visual Studio Code and when I run the test in terminal, it says "[Errno 2] No such file or directory". Even though it is installed. What am I doing wrong?

[Beauty.and.FashionPhotographer]

off topic question: there is no such thing for us guys who won a mac, to roght click the preview image and get a popup window with all these options to save the image and do other things wit it? Right?

[wcmdtzk]

I'm a complete newbie to all of this and I just couldn't install it properly. I tried 5 different tutorials and each time i ended up with the same result. Comfyui starts but ckpt_name is unclickable. Then i used the help of chatgpt to uninstall and clean up, and do it all over again. I tried homebrew 3 times as well. Any sugestions? I've killed many, many, many hours doing this.

[alzamonart]

Just stumbled across this video and was short and to the point -- Many thanks :) Two things though: 1) I tried installing dependencies (torch, torchaudio etc) via pip - python script gave errors. Uninstalled and reinstalled via conda - solved. 2) Forcing a floating point flag as in 5:23 actually gave me errors. Simple main.py worked fine.

[dnmluko]

I get an error when trying to install conda 2:04

Could not solve for environment specs
The following packages are incompatible
├─ pin-1 is installable and it requires
│ └─ python 3.12.*, which can be installed;
└─ torchvision is not installable because there are no viable options