Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).




GCstar vs Where Is It? Comments

- GCstar is Free and Open Source
The best open source alternative to Where Is It? is GCstar. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Where Is It? and 12 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Where Is It? are Virtual Volumes View, Video Hub App, Ant Movie Catalog and Basenji.
Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).





VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can...



no thumbnails of pictures, no way to store a portion of textfiles in VVV database, no filters as in whereist, ...
Searchable mirror catalog of disks volumes, not a collection manager.






Ant Movie Catalog is a free, open-source program made to manage your collection of movies on DVD, CD (VideoCD, DivX, ...) and tapes.



Basenji is a volume indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of volume collections. It currently supports indexing of removable media such as CDs and USB sticks and stores them as volume objects in a database.




Griffith is a media collection manager application. Adding items to the collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web.

Punakea is a little app that allows one to apply tags to files on one's computer. It then allows searching, browsing and manipulation of files in its tag-browser


MeD's Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. It gets the movies info from IMDb.




CDCollect is a CD/DVD catalog application for gnome 2.16. Its functionality is similar to the old gtktalog application for gnome 1.4.




A cross-platform GUI file cataloging program with extensive customization options to suit user preferences. Highly optimized for multi-core parallel search speed, data integrity, and repository portability. Librer can import data from "Where Is It?", "Cathy" and "VVV"



TagLists is a small application for OS X that allows you to quickly see which files you've tagged with particular tags. It uses the OpenMeta tagging system, which means that it finds files that have been tagged with any of the applications that support OpenMeta.




Tagger is a small application for OS X that can be used for quickly adding arbitrary textual tags to files. It uses the OpenMeta system for saving tags, so the tags you add with it will be readable (and editable) by all the other applications that support OpenMeta.

It does not automatically catalog media. You must manually add items to the collection.