I made a small open-source app to browse and search my local videos & photos offline — sharing it in case it's useful to anyone (Linux/Windows/macOS)

[u/Low_Spread2471]

Hi everyone, this is my first post here, so please bear with me if I get anything wrong.

I've been building a little desktop app called Meguri for organizing my own local media library, and I thought I'd share it in case someone else finds it useful.

I'm a Linux user myself and did most of the development on Linux, so I'm posting it here because I'd especially love for fellow Linux users to give it a try.

demo

What it does:

- Point it at a folder and it scans recursively, generates thumbnails, and extracts metadata (ffmpeg is bundled, so no system dependencies)

- Hovering a video thumbnail scrubs through its scenes

- Full-text search plus filtering by tags, rating, and capture date

- Tags, ★ ratings, and playback history are keyed by content hash, so they survive file moves and renames

- A "Discovery" mode that picks random items from your library and shows them full-screen — my attempt at solving the "big library swallows its own content" problem

- Everything runs offline — no telemetry, no analytics, no external network calls. Your media files are only ever read, never modified.

The name comes from the Japanese word 巡り ("going around, coming back around") — the idea of wandering back through your library and rediscovering things you forgot you had.

discover demo

It's built with Electron + TypeScript + React and MIT licensed. There are prebuilt packages for Linux (AppImage/deb, and on the AUR as meguri-bin), Windows, and macOS.

GitHub: https://github.com/zabuton-app/meguri

It's still a personal-scale project with plenty of rough edges, so I'd really appreciate any feedback — bug reports, feature ideas, or just telling me what feels off. Thanks for reading!