SegFault42 /HeliosGen

About HeliosGen

HeliosGen is a free desktop app for chaining AI image and video models. Drag prompts, models and reference images onto a node canvas, then run them in order or side by side. It runs on your machine, but you need your own paid kie.ai API key. Only macOS (Apple Silicon) builds are out so far.

Best for: Indie animators who want a local, node-based canvas to chain image and video models without a subscription.

• Drags and connects nodes to build reusable image and video pipelines
• Runs several models in one pipeline, in parallel or in sequence
• Keeps generation history in a local SQLite database
• Shows a JSON prompt preview and an AI prompt improvement helper
• Can send GPT Image 2 through your ChatGPT Codex subscription instead

1. 1
   Download the macOS build from the GitHub releases page.
2. 2
   On macOS, right-click the app and choose Open once, or run the command below.

   xattr -cr /Applications/HeliosGen.app

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3. 3
   Launch HeliosGen, open Settings → API Keys and paste your kie.ai API key.
4. 4
   Start generating; on macOS your data sits in the command below.

   ~/Library/Application Support/cash.sdd.helios.desktop/

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5. 5
   To build from source: the command below, cd HeliosGen, npm install, npm run desktop:build (needs Node 22+, Rust and Tauri system deps).

   git clone https://github.com/SegFault42/HeliosGen

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