Open Source Where Is It? AlternativesCD Catalogers and other similar apps like Where Is It?

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.

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

    100 GCstar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think GCstar is a great Where Is It? alternative, some don't.

    • GCstar is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Where Is It?.

    • GCstar is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Where Is It?.

    • GCstar is Free and Open SourceWhere Is It? is Paid and Proprietary
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    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...

    23 Virtual Volumes View alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • PortableApps.com
     
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    no thumbnails of pictures, no way to store a portion of textfiles in VVV database, no filters as in whereist, ...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    Searchable mirror catalog of disks volumes, not a collection manager.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Virtual Volumes View is a great Where Is It? alternative.

    • Virtual Volumes View is Free and Open SourceWhere Is It? is Paid and Proprietary
    • Virtual Volumes View is LightweightWhere Is It? is not according to our users
  3. Basenji icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Griffith icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Punakea icon
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    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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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  7. Librer icon
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    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"

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    19 CDCollect alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
     
  9. Taglists icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
  10. Tagger icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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