Alis Studio v0.5.2

A local, on-device image-generation studio for Apple silicon (MLX). Self-contained — double-click to run, no Python or pip to set up.

Fixes a critical bug: earlier 0.5.x builds crashed image generation with "There is no Stream(gpu, 0) in current thread" on recent MLX. Please use 0.5.2.

Install

1. Download Alis-Studio-0.5.2.dmg below, open it, and drag Alis Studio to Applications.
2. First launch (Gatekeeper): this build is ad-hoc signed, not notarized, so macOS blocks it the first time. Do one of:
   • Right-click the app → Open, then confirm, or
   • run once in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Alis Studio.app"
3. Launch it. The first image downloads the model weights from Hugging Face (several GB).

Requires an Apple-silicon Mac (M1+) with ≥ 24 GB unified memory.

Highlights

• Self-contained app: bundles its own Python + every dependency (mlx, mflux, transformers, the Krea 2 Turbo backend, …).
• 4 models: Krea 2 Turbo (default, pure-MLX) · Qwen-Image · FLUX.1 schnell / dev.
• Stop button to cancel a generation.
• Optional on-device prompt enhancer (Settings → Prompt enhancer): a local LLM (Qwen3-4B) that translates non-English prompts — e.g. Korean — to English and enriches them. Off by default; memory-gated (asks before loading on ≤24 GB Macs).
• App icon generated by Alis Studio itself.

Fixed in 0.5.2

• All MLX work now runs on one dedicated GPU thread, and the prompt enhancer runs in its own process — resolving the "There is no Stream(gpu, 0)" crash that broke generation in 0.5.0–0.5.1.

⚠️ Ad-hoc signed (use the Gatekeeper step above). Model weights are not bundled — they download on first generation.