Scumble
Product Hunt Dennis Schöneberg
Scumble is a free desktop app for AI inpainting. It edits selected parts into colour-matched layers, using your own ComfyUI or API keys.
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Scumble is launching as a free, open-source desktop editor for AI inpainting. The pitch is simple: pick a part of an image, tell it what should go there, and get back a new layer that blends with the original instead of sitting awkwardly on top of it.
That layer-based approach is the nice bit. Rather than treating the edit like a blunt replacement, Scumble says the result lands as its own colour-matched layer, which should make the output easier to work with in a proper editing workflow. For people who care about control, that matters more than flashy demos.
It also avoids the usual “trust us, send everything to our servers” setup. Scumble runs on your own ComfyUI or your own API keys, and it supports FLUX 3, GPT Image, Nano Banana and more. Product Hunt lists it under design tools and open source, which is exactly where this kind of utility belongs: practical, local, and a little less desperate for applause.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
Open-source AI tools keep winning where the commercial ones get slippery: control, portability, and fewer hostage situations with a vendor account. Scumble looks like another reminder that the best AI editing tools are the ones that let people keep their own keys and their own files. Amazing how often “please upload everything” is sold as convenience.
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