Introducing StaticKit: A Free GUI for AI Image Models

January 2026

I built StaticKit because chat interfaces are a terrible way to edit images.

Every time I wanted to tweak a background or try a different model, I'd lose track of what I'd already tried. Scroll up, find the prompt, copy it, paste it back, make a change, wait. Repeat fifty times. It's slow, messy, and genuinely hard to keep track of what's working.

StaticKit fixes this. It's a free, open-source front-end for AI image models that gives you actual controls—sliders, dropdowns, presets—instead of a text box. Upload an image, swap backgrounds, change models, adjust lighting. Everything stays organized. You can see your version history and compare what changed across edits without losing your mind scrolling through a chat log.

Features

AI Suggests: The app reads your uploaded image and suggests what to do with it. It understands context, whether you've got a product shot, a portrait, or something else, and recommends relevant transformations instead of making you guess what prompts might work.

Model Builder: Easily swap out the subject or model in your image while keeping everything else intact. Great for testing how a product looks with different people or in different contexts without reshooting.

AI Image Resize: Need a different aspect ratio? The resize tool intelligently fills in the edges rather than just cropping or stretching. Going from square to landscape? The AI extends the background naturally.

Prompt Engineering Built Into Presets: You don't need to learn prompt engineering. Lighting presets (golden hour, studio, dramatic) and style options have the prompting baked in. Pick "golden hour" and you get warm, directional light without writing a paragraph about sun angles and color temperature.

Background Swap with Matched Lighting: Replace backgrounds and the AI adjusts the lighting on your subject to match. No more pasting someone into a sunset and having them lit like they're in an office.

Version Control: See every edit you've made, compare versions side by side. Way easier than scrolling through a chat trying to find "the one from Tuesday that was almost right."

Comparison Tool: Drag a slider across two versions to see exactly what changed. Useful for checking if a background swap looks natural or if the lighting adjustment actually improved things.

How Is It Free?

StaticKit is bring-your-own-API-key. You get a free Gemini API key from Google (takes about 30 seconds), paste it in, and you're set. Your key stays in your browser—nothing gets sent to any server except Google's API.

No accounts. No tracking. No subscriptions. The app runs entirely in your browser.

What's Next?

I'm actively building out more features:

The whole thing is open source. If you want to poke around, contribute, or just steal ideas for your own projects: github.com/coreyrab/statickit

Try it out at statickit.ai.