Qwen Image.

A private image studio inside the engine: describe a scene in Chinese or English and let the Mac compose it locally, including text that often survives the trip into pixels.

View on Hugging Face See LocalEngine variants ↓

Model makerQwen

Supported in LocalEnginemacOS

Upstream licenseApache-2.0

SourceQwen Image model card ↗

Where it earns its space

Built for a real local rhythm.

These are good-fit starting points—not promises of benchmark performance. Choose the smallest listed option that comfortably covers your work.

On-device concept images

Chinese and English text rendering

Private visual ideation

In LocalEngine

Configured variants, by device.

The formats below are the downloads currently represented in LocalEngine’s model catalogs. GGUF runs through the llama.cpp-based runtime; MLX options use the Apple Silicon MLX runtime.

macOS

Qwen-Image 20B

Formats: Q4_K_M diffusion model + VAE + Qwen2.5-VL-7B text encoder
Local note: Run it from Engine → Image Generation. The package uses stable-diffusion.cpp rather than the chat runtime.

About the source

Model identity, task category, supported formats, and license are based on the linked Hugging Face Qwen Image model card and the LocalEngine macOS/iOS catalogs. Hardware guidance reflects the packaged variants, not a universal system requirement.