PEpekingzcc·Mar 11, 2025Submission
A free and open-source inpainting and outpainting tool
2 points · Open discussionSanster
IOPaint
Python2022–2025
Sanster / IOPaint · Archived
IOPaint
Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. Remove any unwanted object, defect, people from your pictures or erase and replace(powered by stable diffusion) any thing on your pictures.
8Distinct people
9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
23.3KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model. Remove any unwanted object, defect, people from your pictures or erase and replace(powered by stable diffusion) any thing on your pictures.
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by year9 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2022-02-10 07:04:18 UTC to 2025-03-11 02:57:26 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
9 sourcesIOPaint: Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA. Erase and replace objects/people
1 points · Open discussionThere’s probably a huge market of people that haven’t kept up with the AI boom, and they don’t know free tools exist for this. HN isn’t that market.
I never used it for watermarks but llama-cleaner is one - it worked pretty well at removing text.
https://github.com/Sanster/lama-cleaner
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2 points · Open discussionLama-cleaner: Image inpainting tool powered by SOTA AI Model
3 points · Open discussionState of the art inpainting made easy with Lama Cleaner
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