Install ComfyUI on Mac OS (M1, M2 or M3)

[@skaramicke]

Thank you for this video! To contribute back, here's a bunch of timecodes you can put in the description to get chapters on the video. 00:00 Intro 00:37 Create a folder 01:00 How to use Terminal 02:12 Install Homebrew 03:25 Install Python 3.11 04:03 Install pip and setuptools if needed 04:43 Install Pytorch Nightly 05:30 Clone ComfyUI github repo 06:30 Install dependencies 06:52 Run

[@AIAnimationStudio]

and we have a new winner of 'KZbinr of the day!!!' ... Thanks for that... I kept noticing I'd not added them each time I replied to a comment... but... well ya know.... never enough time.. Chapters added. Thank you.

[@FF-fd9nx]

You. Are. Amazing. The instructions they give are so complicated. You made it super easy

[@gergelyszabo650]

EXACTLY!

[@ringdigital7088]

Wow! I was almost ready to get my pc working ( which would be a total rabbithole in itself ), I am so glad you shared these steps with us. HUGE appreciation!!!

[@coldbluddjp]

You are a legend! I learned so much about terminal commands alone from this video, regardless of your effortless comfyUI installation guide. THANK YOU

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Awesome, glad to here it :-)

[@ClarkRuell]

Thank you for showing me is such detail ! I loved the way you demonstrated dragging the folder over to terminal to get the URL correctly. I always have had trouble on OSX with finding the address of a file. Very irritating. You made it so easy.

[@ilyanemihin6029]

Thanks for tutorial! It works) Some additions - it's needed to download default checkpoint model for start generation in default workflow, also command "python3.11 main.py --force-fp16" - will improve speed generation on Mac

[@sltwtr806]

will try it, thank you

[@dustinrolstad752]

I dropped a .safetensors file into the checkpoint folder, but it still says it's missing.

[@panduh_sudo]

@@dustinrolstad752 dunno if you still need this but what worked for me is instead of using pip3 which defaults to macOS's install use pip3.11

[@Loam_]

just went through this step by step and it worked exactly as needed- thank you so much!

[@lucianachunlu6320]

very helpful! ive been watching tons of videos trying to go through everything that comfyui need. this is the best one helping me to setup my mac for comfyui, and its definitly easy to follow. thank you !!!!!!

[@alexlindgren1]

Awesome tutorial covering all you need from start to finish, very much appreciated starting point.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Great. Thanks. I think I recorded as much for KZbin as I did to have a reference for myself again in the future . . Enjoy the learning journey... it's pretty endless.

[@craiggrella]

This was the most clear and concise tutorial for getting this running. Thank you!

[@leventeditor]

the only tutorial you need for mac os,trust me

[@chrisdanneffel]

This is the best guide I've found online so far. It's wonderfully explained for any layperson, and it worked immediately. Thank you, I saved a lot of time!

[@haltandburn]

Thank you. You made this significantly easier than it would have been with other guides.

[@uchiha879]

OMG i've being waiting years for this

[@fototipsandinfo9437]

Thanks, I was able to get my M3 Pro Macbook working first time

[@tonytitani410]

YOU ARE THE GOAT! Been trying to do this for weeks! THANKS!

[@AIAnimationStudio]

😅... I'll take that. Glad it helped

[@antoaryanto7633]

Best tutorial - been watching alot of video and your guide is the most simple and clear.

[@EmilyNilsen]

I love your channel and tutorials, and now I have ComfyUI on my Mac. I hope you do make some intricate AI animation workflow tutorials using ComfyUI!

[@illuminum8576]

Awesome, for some reason it said it installed python 3.11, but actually installed 3.10. It still worked when I removed the .11 in python3 main.py! Thank you

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Great, glad to hear it.👍. It definitely takes a bit of trial and error, especially if you've installed other things in the past.

[@kedixia]

Thank you very much. I had an incomplete of ComfyUI and it worked in some cases but not in others. This video helped a lot.👍

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Cool, glad to hear. So much to learn and try out once it's up and running, with Comfy UI manager, custom nodes, models, VAE's, Loras. But a lot of fun in a really evil hard work kinda way.

[@GodsofAthens-c8w]

Thank you so much you made it so simple. I had something to do and I had to stop I thought I would be totally lost, but I ended the installations in a few minutes! Thank you so much!

[@stevenn92]

Thank you very much for making these clear instructions! I tried several times with instructions online and kept getting stuck with small code errors.... But got it first try with your video. THX! ^___^

[@madsholst-og8pf]

Brilliant tutorial, so well paced and detailed. Thank you very much!!

[@KattooHillewaere]

Thank you so much!!! Every single step was so clear and works!!!

[@sunnyrajput329]

Incredible instructions - thank you so much for the very clear step by step guide. Absolute hero!

[@numerable]

Thank you very much for your help. I am finding it very helpful, but I am having trouble at 7:10 ... When I have to run "main.py" to get the link, I get this warning: WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.4; however, version 24.3.1 is available. You should consider upgrading via the '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip' command. When I try to upgrade it, I get this message: .../ComfyUI/utils/extra_config.py", line 2, in import yaml ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'yaml' I don't know how to continue to make it work. Can you help me with it, please?

[@obscuremusictabs5927]

EDIT: The best fix for crashing on an M1 Mac is to use Chrome. Don't use Safari. Leaving my previous comment because it still is the solution for being able to use masks. For anyone having crashing issues on an M1 Mac. I accidentally stumbled upon a fix. I couldn't get masks to work for which the solution is running the following in the terminal before you run the two main terminal commands: export PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK=1 Apparently it forces the Mac to default to the CPU. I started to notice that whenever it was in this mode it wouldn't crash and if it did it would crash after a long time. Whereas before it would often crash after just a few generations.

[@cryptophani1790]

installed in single go, legend for a reason

[@dariodipaola8156]

Thanks a million.. no way I could do it by myself.. really helped, thx!

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Cool!... glad it helped 👍

[@MichaelMcGetrick]

Worked very well. Thanks for putting this together.

[@khalidskalli3371]

Thanks a bunch:) easy and straight forward guide.

[@doctorstrobe]

Thanks a lot Jon, this was very helpful. Jon Snow knows nothing but it seems you're a very different kind of Jon.

[@Forbidden-Yoga-Dot-Com]

OMG this is genius how many weeks I have been looking for this ... thank youuuuuuuu

[@CuriousG360]

Thank you! This was incredibly helpful and easy to follow along with! Amazing video! Will be going through your channel and subscribing :)

[@owmo_studio]

Thanks for this video, was following the documentation but it wasn't written well. This is much easier

[@oraocean]

Thank you! following video is much clear than text! I use your tutorial, alter Homebrew to anaconda, and it works! And drag folder from finder to terminal, that makes things easier!

[@HadassaCandiani]

Absolutely amazing!! I was able to log in following every step!

[@galacticarchitech]

i am not computer savvy AT ALLL seriously you rock. I DID IT!! haha i felt so accomplished

[@JunaidAzizChannel]

Thank you! great tutorial. I got into an issue with installing pyTorch. Fixed it by making a virtual environment and installing it in the venv

[@Nick-do5ii]

Amazing man, really fast walktrough!! Got it working first go.

[@hanneshuber3d]

Incredibly good!! Thank you so much. Very clear, straight to the point and super easy to follow - THANKS!

[@olgnov]

This is definitely the best tutorial I ever seen. Thank you so much!

[@Khu-Moo-Nart-Win]

Thanks for the instructions! May I know how to uninstall all the things we just installed when I don't need them anymore?

[@EdmoTV]

I had to run 'python3.11 -m ensurepip --upgrade' to install pip for the 3.11. The command you gave installed pip and pytorch for 3.9

[@svitlanatuchyna7154]

Great explanation! Everything works and so simple to follow! Thank you a lot!!!

[@boztikmedia8784]

wow my man i am forever greatful I came across this vid. appreciate you. HARD SUB!

[@ashish963]

Very useful video. Please use full size terminal window next time, that will help viewers.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Thanks... and yes good point... I'd no idea this video would end up with 53k views... it was just a quick record, in part for my self too. 😄

[@ashish963]

@@AIAnimationStudio I know, sometimes things blow up. You are doing a great job. Expect such views many more times. Best luck.

[@MetaPuppet]

This helped me out a lot. Thanks for the guide!

[@oldradiosnphonographs]

Wow. As someone who never uses terminals and doesn’t know shit from Shinola about coding, I’m astonished I actually got the dang thing installed without pulling my hair out and breaking down to tears.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

@@oldradiosnphonographs 😂😂😂

[@Jasperrr7]

This is awesome! It fixed my problems with loading some custom_nodes. Thank you so much sir!

[@BharathidasanNatarajan]

This is brilliant. I just installed the same. but not sure why I got some module not found error with python 3.11 main.py, but it did worked with python3! Thankyou for sharing.

[@ibrajimenez2098]

Thank you! That worked! I'm about to get started . Subscription earned!❤❤

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Brilliant. I'm hopngi to do some more Comfy based content soon.

[@jesusaguadoalvarez2621]

Thank you soooo much, dude, I was going nuts and you helped me a lot.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Glad to hear it helped. I'll try and do a follow-up at some point, showing more of Comfy, installing the manager, models, custom nodes and some cool animation workflows.

[@marcinkrupinski]

Thank you for quick and easy to implement tutorial. Good job!

[@konayzar]

I have this error "Torch not compiled with CUDA enabled" when I run main.py, could you please help.

[@feralestudio2283]

HI! In the last step of: python3.11 main py the following error appears: AssertionError: Torch not compiled with CUDA enabled Can you help me?

[@HelloStrangerPod]

I'm stuck with that error as well and would really appreciate some help too?

[@heraoh2]

Me too. Please help

[@zacharykrevitt7560]

I get this error when running the last step ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'torch'

[@DevValladares]

Figured it out!! ChatGPT is your friend here

[@darthjager8883]

You haven’t installed PyTorch nightly

[@soundsl1kemusic]

got it too and I installed PyTorch nightly a several times, but I guess I will not work for me. can't run the app. can't generate a url. how can I see if I downloaded or installed PyTorch ?

[@fpejanovic]

i had the same problem earlier - managed to fix it, then after turning off ComfyUI and trying to turn it back on the error re-appeared. apparently i had to do everything in a virtual environment and then it worked.

[@CarlosNameOficial]

I got the same error, did you fix it?

[@rlndnr]

Cheers for this great tutorial. Just FYI, pip & pytorch do not come with Python 3.11

[@MrGoToGuy2011]

YOU ARE THE MAN!!!! THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS EASY!!!!!

[@marcelruetschlin3577]

Great Tutorial . Keep up the good work :)

[@suken1019]

This is a Ultra Good Video! Thank you!

[@usiala]

Thank you, a great video.

[@JamyVodegel]

Extremely helpful! Thanks!

[@krisnovachuk2685]

thank you! with your tutorial is so easy to understand!

[@mikegrok]

1 month later, and it worked perfectly.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Good to know, hopefully it'll work for a while yet. 😀👍.

[@marcosansalone]

So far the best tutorial I have seen but I don't know why the first render is a black screen. I downloaded a checkpoint from from civitai and executed the render but no image.

[@m76r72]

Great tutorial thanks a lot!

[@DarrinYoxtheimer]

Great video. Thank you for sharing your hard work.

[@koen.mortier_fitchen]

Thanks man. It all worked. That's rare to me :O

[@ebit2794]

Thanks. Very clearly very helpful

[@AndrewGoltz]

Brilliant! Thank you very much!

[@roberthayes4312]

You are the best - thanks for this video!

[@obscuremusictabs5927]

Thank you. Worked like a charm.

[@TheBlackbeansoup]

You sir, are the best. Thank you very much.

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Thanks very much😅

[@kensiu1833]

Cheers mate great tutorial

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Thanks 👍... one day soon I'll hopefully post some new stuff.

[@GenieMagicLabs]

Great Thanks, everything worked out of the box ❤

[@ilitchdhoomon6246]

Hello, are you guys experiencing long render time with SDXL checkpoints? I have an M2, on SD 1.5 based checpoint it generates images very fast, though i believe controlnet only work on SDXL checkpoints. Let me know if you guys have this issue also. Cheers!

[@maxcoteclearning]

Thanks. its always better to use separate virtual environment for each python project.

[@brettharding3166]

Thank you for the comprehensive video. I keep getting the error "externally-managed-envrionment" when installing pip. I've gone online to troubleshoot but I just end up more confused. Any pointers on how to solve this?

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Hey, just tried out that error on claud.ai. 01 . Make sure you're in your virtual environment when installing pip. python -m venv myenv source myenv/bin/activate pip install

[@AIAnimationStudio]

"When you encounter the "externally-managed-environment" error while trying to install packages using pip, it usually means that you are attempting to install packages within a Python environment that was not created using pip. This can happen if you are using a conda environment or a system-wide Python installation. To resolve this issue, you have a few options available. (*including the one above)"

[@AIAnimationStudio]

pip install --user This can help avoid conflicts with the system-wide Python installation. If you are using a virtual environment created with venv or virtualenv, ensure that you activate the virtual environment before running pip:

[@AIAnimationStudio]

source /path/to/venv/bin/activate Replace /path/to/venv with the actual path to your virtual environment directory. If none of the above steps work, you may need to create a new virtual environment using tools like venv or virtualenv, and then install the required packages within that environment using pip:

[@AIAnimationStudio]

python -m venv myenv source myenv/bin/activate pip install This creates a new virtual environment named myenv, activates it, and allows you to install packages using pip within that isolated environment. Always remember to activate the appropriate environment before running pip or any Python-related commands to ensure that you are working with the correct Python installation and package dependencies.

[@aligand]

Thank you for the very helpful tutorial

[@chanmichael3479]

Thanks for the video! I have a question: I'm using a Mac Studio M2 Ultra and followed your steps to install ComfyUI. While I can use ComfyUI, I can only generate images with a maximum of 27 steps. If I try to generate an image with more than 27 steps (28 steps or more), the image turns black. Does anyone know what's happening? Many thanks!!!

[@swanidhi]

Great video! Use venv or conda to create an environment instead of installing everything globally

[@lamandy1886]

Hi , I get this error"Prompt outputs failed validation CheckpointLoaderSimple: - Value not in list: ckpt_name: 'v1-5-pruned-emaonly.ckpt' not in []" Please help me, thanks

[@devon.online]

OMG THANK YOU - so easy and concise, you're a gem

[@denisgoga99]

Is it working also on the older MacBooks Pro without M chips, please?

[@JuniorS.18]

hello excellent video, I did the steps and I could install comfy ui on my Mac, the problem is that the "manager" button is not in the interface. essential to be able to install other nodes. how is it possible to solve this problem? Thanks for your help.

[@HasanAi-j9r]

Thanks it works with chat GPT help

[@DevValladares]

Could you also do do one installing ComfyUI Manager on mac? Would be so helpful, im stuck here now!

[@DevValladares]

Edit: Nvm the linux install worked

[@AIAnimationStudio]

glad you got it working. Yeah I might do a follow up soon. Plus one setting it up in the cloud so Mac users (or anyone) can rent multiple high end gpus to massively speed up generation.

[@viddotcoach]

Great stuff, but in future PLS zoom in on code, next to impossible to read on my macbook air.

[@djhymntv]

I have an 3.6 GHz 8-Core Intel Core i9. Will i be able to install Comfyui on this machine?

[@Caged_Monuments-x6p]

I was hoping you would have done some render time analysis.

[@actionmf]

On the last step I got the message "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'torch'". Any suggestions? Also got a few not on path warnings, could that be it?

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Hey, not 100% sure. Sounds like PyTorch was not installed. Recommend checking you have that installed, double check the steps. Quick chat with ChatGPT might help troubleshoot. Good luck.

[@actionmf]

Thanks for the quick reply man, I'll get to it!@@AIAnimationStudio

[@XxrkylexX]

thanks brother! str8 forward 🙌

[@GlobalProductionGEP]

Amazing video!!!!! Thank you so much!

[@mohdshahranbindaud8337]

Amazing! Thank you, man!

[@muteguel]

Does anyone know why I get this " zsh: permission denied: /Users/mg/Desktop/AI/ComfyUI" and how I can solve that problem?

[@AIAnimationStudio]

Chat GPT says... The error message "zsh: permission denied: /Users/mg/Desktop/AI/ComfyUI" indicates that your user account does not have the necessary permissions to execute or access the ComfyUI directory or file in that location. Here are some steps you can take to solve this problem: 1. Change Directory Ownership: If the ownership of the directory is set to another user, you might encounter this error. You can change the ownership to your current user with the chown command. Open your Terminal and type: bash Copy code sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Users/mg/Desktop/AI/ComfyUI This command will prompt you for your password. Enter it, and the ownership of the ComfyUI directory and its contents will be changed to your user. 2. Change Permissions: If the permissions are restrictive, you might not have the execute permission. To change the permissions so that your user can read, write, and execute the files, use the chmod command: bash Copy code chmod -R 755 /Users/mg/Desktop/AI/ComfyUI This command sets the directory and all files within it to be readable and executable by all users and writable by the owner. 3. Check if the Path is Correct: Ensure that the path you are trying to access is correct and that it is not a file being mistakenly treated as a directory or vice versa. Run as Administrator: If the above methods don't work, try running your command with sudo to execute it with administrative privileges: bash Copy code sudo

[@AIAnimationStudio]

(*You might simply need to try making your AI folder in your home directory, or within another popular location other than the desktop)

[@thomfraney6893]

Thanks so much... super helpful!

[@prabhakarkumarjha5589]

Helped a lot, Thank you

[@JacobHalton]

Thanks for this explanation of how to set it up! I've got it open, but I got an error that said "no module named 'torch'" even though I installed pytorch already. Is there something I did wrong or should fix? Or just ignore it since it will open?

[@laortizr]

thanks a lot, great video