Stable Diffusion Installation script for Apple Silicon CPU (M1, M1Pro, M2)

This script will help you to install Stable Diffusion on your Mac. It takes care of installing all dependencies for you and provides a menu to launch a Web UI, run in your terminal, or Upscale photos to High Definition format.

Get Started: How to install Stable Diffusion on Apple M1 with GPU support

Paste the following command in your MacOS terminal.

Option 1: Clone the project.

git clone git@github.com:glonlas/Stable-Diffusion-Apple-Silicon-M1-Install.git

cd Stable-Diffusion-Apple-Silicon-M1-Install

bash ./install-stable-diffusion-apple-silicon.sh

Option 2: Download offline copy of this repo

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glonlas/Stable-Diffusion-Apple-Silicon-M1-Install/main/install-stable-diffusion-apple-silicon.sh -o install-stable-diffusion-apple-silicon.sh

bash ./install-stable-diffusion-apple-silicon.sh

How to use it?

To use it simply go to the folder where you put this project and run ./install-stable-diffusion-apple-silicon.sh.

The script will automatically detect if all the dependencies are installed, then will display the menu to start generating or upscaling images.

Script menu

Web UI provided by Lstein Stable-Diffusion project

Script detecting missing installation Screen you will see at first launch.

Features:

Automatic installs

Install Brew, Wget, Unzip, MiniConda (if not on the system)
Install Stable Diffusion project (from Lstein Github)
Install Stable Diffusion 1.4 Model
Install GFPGAN (from TencentARC Github)
Install Real-ESRGAN upscaler (from Xinntao Github)

Stable Diffusion features

Run Stable Diffusion in Terminal mode
Run Stable Diffusion in a Web UI
On-demand picture upscaling
Uninstall Stable Diffusion

Credits

Lstein for the Apple Silicon compatible Stable Diffusion
TencentARC for GFPGAN
Any-Winter-4079 from Reddit for the Apple Silicon tutorial
Xinntao for Real-ESRGAN

FAQ

1. Can I copy this script and update it?

Yes

2. Can I use and integrate it in my project (personal or commercial)?

Yes you can

3. Can I send Pull request to improve it?

Yes, Absolutely this small project is made to help anyone to play with Stable Diffusion. Feel free to contribute

4. Where all the projects are installed?

Per default, if you do not update the variable in the script, it is installed in $HOME/stable-diffusion