ComfyUI desktop version MAC installation tutorial

ComfyUI Desktop Edition (MacOS) Download

Please click the button below to download the corresponding ComfyUI desktop version installation package for MacOS system

Download for MacOS: https://www.comfy.org/download

Installation steps for ComfyUI desktop version

Double-click the downloaded installation package file, as shown in the figure, please drag the ComfyUI program and click the key header to the Applications folder

If your folder appears as follows after opening the installation package, and a prohibited symbol appears on the icon, it means that your current system version is not compatible with the current ComfyUI desktop version.

Then, in the " Lanchpad" " find the corresponding " ComfyUI " icon, click to enter the initialization settings of ComfyUI.

ComfyUI desktop version initialization process

Start the interface

Click " Get Started " to start the initialization step

Select GPU (GPU selection)

The corresponding three options are:

1.MPS (recommended): Metal Performance Shaders (MPS) is Apple's optimization framework, allowing developers to use GPUs to accelerate high-performance computing tasks including machine learning on Apple devices, and supports frameworks such as PyTorch to use GPUs to improve model training and inference efficiency.

2. Manual Configuration Manual Configuration: You need to manually install and configure the Python running environment. Unless you know how to configure it, please do not choose

3.Enable CPU Mode Enable CPU mode: only for developers and special cases. Please do not choose unless you are sure you need to use this mode.

If there are no special circumstances, please select MPS as shown in the screenshot and click " Next " to proceed to the next step

Install location

In this step, you will select the installation location of the following related contents of ComfyUI:

Python environment

Models Model Files

Custom Nodes Custom Nodes Recommendations:

Please create a separate blank folder as the installation directory of ComfyUI

Please ensure that the disk has at least“5G”of disk space to ensure the normal installation of ComfyUI desktop version

ComfyUI not all files are installed in this directory. Some files will be located in the MacOS system directory. You can refer to the uninstallation part of this guide to complete the uninstallation of the ComfyUI desktop version.

After completion, click " Next " to proceed to the next step

Migrate from Existing Installation (migate from existing installations - optional)

In this step, you can migrate your existing ComfyUI installation content to the ComfyUI desktop version, select the ComfyUI installation directory you already have on your computer, and the installer will automatically recognize the corresponding directory:

User Files User Files

Models model file: It will not be copied, but will be associated with the desktop version.

Custom Nodes Custom Nodes: The node will be reinstalled

Don't worry, this step will not copy the model file. You can check or uncheck the corresponding options according to your needs, click Next to go to the next step

Desktop Setting (Desktop Edition Settings)

This step is preference settings

Automatic Updates Automatic Updates: Whether to set up automatic updates when ComfyUI updates are available

Usage Metrics Usage Analysis: If enabled, we will collect anonymous usage data to help us improve ComfyUI

Mirror Settings Mirror Settings: Since the program needs to download Python online to complete the installation of the relevant environment, if you also have a red ❌ as shown in the figure during installation, it is prompted that this may cause the subsequent installation process to fail, please refer to the following steps for processing.

Expand the corresponding image settings and find the specific failed image. The error in the current screenshot is " Python Install Mirror " mirror failed.

For different mirror errors, you can refer to the following content to try to manually find different mirrors and replace them

The following situations are mainly for users in China

Python installation image

You need to find the GitHub image address and build the image address pointing to the Python-build-standalone repository releases

https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/releases/download

Build a link similar to the following format

https://xxx/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/releases/download

PyPI Mirror

Alibaba Cloud: https://mirrors.aliyun.com/pypi/simple/

Tencent Cloud: https://mirrors.cloud.tencent.com/pypi/simple/

University of Science and Technology of China: https://pypi.mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/simple/

Shanghai Jiaotong University: https://pypi.sjtu.edu.cn/simple/

Complete the installation

If everything is correct, the installer will complete the installation and automatically enter the ComfyUI desktop interface, which means that the installation has been successfully