The welcome card
While the canvas is empty, a card titled Welcome stands in its middle. It offers three ways to start and, under them, the two things those ways need. It goes away as soon as the graph has a node, and it steps aside while the node search is open.
<!-- picture: the welcome card with the three ways and the two setup rows -->The language button
In the top corner of the card is a button with the name of the other language: Русский or English. A press switches the whole window at once, and the app remembers the choice. On the first start the app speaks the language of your system: Russian on a Russian system, otherwise English. View ▸ Language changes it too.
Three ways to start
| Way | What it says | Button |
|---|---|---|
| Take a lesson | Build your first graph yourself: the app leads you step by step and checks each step. No assistant needed. | Choose a lesson opens the lessons. See Learn. |
| Open an example | A finished lesson graph made of your nodes and models: open it and see how it works. | Open an example opens the example of the first lesson your ComfyUI can build. Until ComfyUI is read, there is no button: "Examples appear once the app has read your ComfyUI: they are built from your nodes." |
| Ask the assistant | Write what you want, for example "I want a picture from text". The assistant explains every step on the canvas. | Ask the assistant puts the cursor in the message field. While no assistant is chosen, the button is Choose an assistant… and opens Settings ▸ Assistant. |
Only one button is the main (bright) one at a time.
What the ways need
Under the three ways are two rows. Each says where it stands and has the one button that moves it on. A done row shows a tick.
| Row | What it asks | Button | When it is done |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connect ComfyUI | "Tell the app where your ComfyUI is: the address you open it at in the browser. The app can also find it on this computer." | Connect… opens Settings ▸ Connection. After that: Read ComfyUI. | The row says, for example, "Read: 75 node types and 331 model files." |
| Choose the assistant | "The model that explains and builds: a cloud one (needs a key) or your own on this computer." | Choose… opens Settings ▸ Assistant. A cloud assistant without a key shows Add the key. | The row says "Assistant: OpenAI." or the provider and model you chose. |
When both are done, the card says: "Your ComfyUI is read and the assistant is chosen. Ask for a graph, learn to build it yourself, or open a workflow."
Below the rows
- Open a ComfyUI workflow opens a workflow file, or a picture or video saved by ComfyUI. See Opening a workflow.
- Up to two recent files, by name. Hover to see the full path.
- I have no ComfyUI yet, while ComfyUI is not read. It opens the card No ComfyUI yet: what ComfyUI is, that this app runs nothing itself, three steps to get ComfyUI, and a note that pictures usually need a graphics card with 6 to 8 GB of memory. Its buttons: Open the ComfyUI download page, Find ComfyUI on this computer, Open the Ollama download page (for an assistant without a cloud key) and Glossary. A download page opens in your browser only when you press its button.
The tour of the window
On the very first start, a short tour of the window starts by itself once. See The tour of the window.
What can go wrong
- While reading, the first row says "Reading your nodes and models…".
- "The address answered but named no node and no model. Check that ComfyUI has finished starting, then read again." Wait for ComfyUI and press Read again.
- If reading fails, the row shows the reason and Open connection settings. If ComfyUI only answered too slowly, the button is Read again.