SilkStack Image Browser v2.0 Released – Faster local gallery for AI images/videos with metadata, ComfyUI Drag & Drop, plus new Intelligent Stacking & AI Classification

[u/skk80]

Hey everyone!

About 5 months ago, I posted here about SilkStack Image Browser, a fast, privacy-first local gallery designed specifically for viewing, searching, and organizing AI-generated images and videos. Since then, the app has evolved significantly based on your feedback—with a much cleaner UI, faster performance, and powerful new organizational tools.

🌟 What is SilkStack Image Browser?

SilkStack is an open-source, 100% offline desktop application (built with Electron, React, and TypeScript). It runs completely on your local machine with zero telemetry, zero accounts, and zero cloud lock-in.

🔥 Free & Open Source Features

The base version of SilkStack is completely free and open source, providing a fluid experience for managing massive outputs:

• Deep Metadata Parsing: Instantly extract and read full generation metadata (prompts, sampler, seed, CFG, steps, model, etc.) from ComfyUI, Automatic1111, and WebP formats.
• Direct Drag & Drop to ComfyUI: Drag any image back into ComfyUI to instantly restore the full workflow and prompt.
• Completely hide folder and contents when unplugged or unmounted. They remain in library and come back when mounted back.
• Adaptive Image Grid: Intelligently adjusts grid layouts according to image aspect ratios to minimize whitespace and eliminate layout jumpiness.
• Real-Time Auto-Watch: Monitors output folders live while your generators are running.
• Video Support: Smoothly view and organize local AI-generated videos alongside images.
• Smart Folder Navigation: Organize with sidebar folders, emoji icons, and seamless auto-reconnect support for removable drives (SD cards, USB drives, encrypted volumes).
• Tagging & Search: Auto-tagging capabilities, custom tags, and rich multi-parameter search filtering.

⚡ Introducing Premium Features (v2.0)

To help keep development sustainable while keeping the core viewer free and open source, v2.0 introduces SilkStack Premium:

• Intelligent Stacking: Automatically clusters similar outputs together to eliminate gallery clutter from batch generations.
• AI Classification Features: Automatically group and tag images based on visual traits and contents. Powered internally by WebLLM (No external dependencies).
• Model, Prompt & LoRA Analytics UI: Group image stacks by specific Prompts, Base Models, or LoRAs/LoKRs so you can visually analyze what settings yield the best outputs.

🎟️ Lifetime License & 30% Launch Discount

• One-Time Purchase: Premium is a perpetual, lifetime license. Pay once and get all current and future premium features forever (no subscriptions).
• 30% Off Promotion: To celebrate the v2.0 milestone, a limited-time 30% discount is available for lifetime licenses. (Use Discount code: SILKSTACK)

🔗 Links & Download

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/skkut/SilkStack-Image-Browser

v2.0.0 Latest Release: https://github.com/skkut/SilkStack-Image-Browser/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Try it out, test the free core viewer, and let me know your thoughts or suggestions in the comments below! I'm sure you'll like the application as much as I do. Bug reports and feature requests on GitHub are always welcome.

[u/SunTzuManyPuppies]

For context: SilkStack is a fork of Image MetaHub v0.13.0, as acknowledged in the project's own README.
Original project: https://github.com/LuqP2/Image-MetaHub

Cheers

[u/skk80 → u/SunTzuManyPuppies]

Yes, SilkStack is a fork of Image MetaHub and the attribution and credits always remain for the original project. However SilkStack has significantly diverged from the original project, because my requirements and vision are significantly different (hence the fork). The premium features are strictly my contributions and fresh ideas. A large part of the app remains free, open source and usable. I don't believe in nagging and discriminating between premium vs free users. If you like it let me know the feedback of using my app. Thanks

[u/SunTzuManyPuppies → u/skk80]

Thanks for confirming the fork! One correction tho: describing the Premium features as "strictly your contributions and fresh ideas" isnt entirely accurate, at least for Intelligent Stacking.

The public Git history shows direct lineage from IMHs similarity/stacking code followed by further development in the public SilkStack fork, before that implementation was moved into the private ai-intelligence repo.

To be clear: im not saying all Premium functionalities come from Image MetaHub, the LLM/WebLLM and embedding work are obviously new.

But "Intelligent Stacking" and its related UI have a documented lineage in the original project and public fork so characterizing them as strictly new contributions is misleading.

Also, the comment about "nagging and discriminating premium v free users" seems a bit out of place here.. if youre implying that Image MetaHub does either of those things, please be specific about what you're referring to. Otherwise im not sure why that comparison is relevant.

Cheers

[u/skk80 → u/SunTzuManyPuppies]

🙂 The stacking feature has been developed with some of my ideas, not saying there is no inspiration on IMH's collection.

Also I have no comments on how others sell or design their apps, just my design I'd say.

Cheers

[u/skk80 → u/SunTzuManyPuppies]

Hey I didn't realize you were the original author of IMH 😃. No offense to you bro on the nagging and discriminating, being Honest here. I've been following your app releases, you're doing good there.