Wobu
Wobu is a local-first world building tool for producing concept art and concept 3D art. You author your world once — art style, canon, species, cultures, places — and every image you generate inherits that context automatically.
The idea in one paragraph
Every image tool treats a prompt as a blank page. But world building is not a sequence of unrelated prompts — it is a tree. A character belongs to a species, which belongs to a world, which is rendered in a house art style. Today that context lives in your head and gets retyped, badly and differently, into every prompt. That is exactly where visual consistency dies.
Wobu asks you to write it down once, at the level where it belongs. Style on the Art Style entity. Anatomy on the species. Costume on the culture. Personality on the character. When you press Generate, the prompt is compiled from that whole chain — and you can see exactly which layer contributed which words.
Start here
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Your first project | From an empty folder to a world tree that produces consistent images. |
| The workspace | The rail, the navigator, the editor and the inspector — where everything lives. |
| Entities and hierarchy | The ten entity kinds, how they nest, and how influence flows between them. |
| The influence stack | How your notes become a prompt, and how to steer it without rewriting the world. |
The first time you open Wobu it walks you through this itself: two legal documents to accept, then a short introduction to the four modes, opening a project, and your keys. You can skip the introduction at any point and run it again later from the launcher or from Settings.
What makes Wobu different
The hierarchy is the product
Not the image grid. The value compounds as the tree grows — the hundredth character is cheaper and more consistent than the first, because by then the world already knows what your species look like, how your cultures dress, and what light your coast gets.
Notes in, canon out
You write rough, messy, half-sentence notes. Enhance turns them into a structured canonical description. Your messy notes are never overwritten — they remain the source. Nothing Enhance produces is written to disk until you have read it and accepted it, section by section if you like.
Nothing is hidden
The compiled prompt is always visible and always attributed. There is no invisible prompt-magic, no secret quality suffix, no reordering you cannot see. If an image came out wrong, you can point at the layer that caused it.
Images are context, not decoration
A reference image carries a role — silhouette, palette, material, mood, pose, costume or full reference — so the compiler knows whether to route it to a style adapter, a structure adapter, or just your own mood board.
Local first, and yours
A project is a folder on disk. Notes are Markdown. Images are files. It works offline against a local GPU, it opens in Obsidian, it versions in git, and it survives Wobu being uninstalled. This guide is inside the application, so it works with no network at all.
Bring your own key Wobu operates no inference of its own and no proxy. Nothing is pre-configured and there is no account: you supply credentials you obtained yourself, and Wobu talks to those providers directly on your behalf. Keys live in your operating system's keychain and never enter the project folder. Until you add one, Enhance and Generate are switched off and say why — everything else in the app works. See Providers and keys.
What Wobu is not
| Not a finishing pipeline | Output is concept art. The 3D tab reconstructs blockout meshes from a turnaround and exports them. Neither is a production asset. |
| Not a wiki or a novel-writing app | Notes exist to drive images. If a fact cannot shape a render, it does not need to live here. (There is a static wiki export, for showing the world to other people.) |
| Not a node-graph tool | ComfyUI already exists, and Wobu can drive it. Wobu's surface is a document editor, not a canvas of wires. |
| Not real-time multiplayer | Several people can share one project folder, and copies can sync peer-to-peer. But there is no co-editing cursor and no server. See Sharing a project. |
| Not a telemetry client | Wobu reports nothing, anywhere, ever. The only outbound requests are the ones you cause by pressing Enhance or Generate. |
This page is rendered from its source in the repository — the same file the application reads for its built-in guide.