WaTale: A free, fully local visual novel engine (Powered by SD 1.5, LayerDiffuse, and ControlNet)

Hey all. I've been working on WaTale, a visual novel app powered by local AI. It combines text, image, and voice models to create fully interactive, branching visual novels entirely on your own hardware. This is a free to use, hassle-free, fully bundled solution. When relying on the local generation pipeline (Ollama for text, Stable Diffusion 1.5 for images using LayerDiffuse and ControlNet, and Kokoro ONNX for TTS), your stories and character data remain completely private. (There is also optional for Ollama Cloud/Anthropic/OpenAI APIs if you prefer cloud text models.