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Models

A model (or checkpoint) is the trained network that actually draws. Nightmare ships without any — you download the ones you want from Models, and each is downloaded once and kept.

Models come in families. A family decides how prompts are written, what sizes it draws and which phones can run it; inside a family, models differ in style.

The families

family models size each draws style needs
SD 1.5 6 ~1 GB 512–1024 Fast; realistic, anime and general mixes Snapdragon 888+
SD 1.5 Swap (experimental) AbsoluteReality, CuteYukiMix, or your own npuforge conversion ~1.3 GB 512 LoRAs and ControlNet (canny, depth, openpose) chosen per render defaults: 8 Elite+; your own conversion: the phone that made it
SDXL 10 ~3.5 GB 1024 Sharper, better composition 8 Gen 3+
Anima 9 ~4.3 GB 1024 Anime; slow (about 80 s a picture) 8 Gen 3+
FLUX.2 Klein 4B, Klein 9B 6.7 GB, 10.7 GB 512–2048 Understands sentences; edits photos. 9B: more detail, slower, starts at 768 8 Elite+
Z-Image Turbo 8.8 GB 512–2048 Photorealistic, fast for its size 8 Elite+
Qwen Image 2.1 10.8 GB 512–2048 Follows long instructions, legible text; edits photos; slow 8 Elite+
Krea 2 Turbo 9.5 GB 512–2048 Text to image only 8 Elite+ and 16 GB RAM

Besides picture models, Models also holds:

  • Upscalers — small models that enlarge a picture. Upscale
  • Video — the text- and image-to-video models, one 8.6 GB download. Video

The Models tab, SD 1.5 family

Which to start with

  • Any phone: AbsoluteReality (realistic) or AnythingV5 (anime), SD 1.5. Small and quick.
  • To inpaint: add AbsoluteReality Inpaint, a dedicated inpainting model.
  • 8 Gen 3 and up: an SDXL model for sharper, larger pictures.
  • 8 Elite: FLUX.2 Klein — prompts in plain sentences, and photo editing.

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