GCstar AlternativesMedia Managers and other similar apps like GCstar

GCstar is described as 'Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...)' and is a very popular Media Manager in the video & movies category. There are more than 100 alternatives to GCstar for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best GCstar alternative is TagSpaces, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GCstar are Tellico, Hydrus, Agent Ransack and Virtual Volumes View.

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GCstar alternatives are mainly File Search Utilities, but if you're looking for Media Managers or CD Catalogers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Media Manager. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to GCstar.
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  1. TagSpaces icon
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    Privacy-first, multi-device organizer for files and folders with customizable tags, color labels, note editing in markdown or HTML, Kanban boards, S3 object storage support, web page clipping, vendor lock-in free filename tagging, open source option, and multi-format preview.

    103 TagSpaces alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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  2. Tellico icon
     52 likes

    Tellico is a software application for organizing your collections. It provides default templates for books, bibliographies, videos, music, video games, coins, stamps, trading cards, comic books, and wines. You can also create your own custom collection of anything you like!

    34 Tellico alternatives

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    • Linux
     
  3. Hydrus icon
     55 likes

    A personal booru-style media tagger that can import files and tags from your hard drive and popular websites. Content can be shared with other users via user-run servers.

    19 Hydrus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Wine
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  4. Agent Ransack icon
     112 likes

    Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    79 Agent Ransack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • PortableApps.com
     
  6. tinyMediaManager is a media management tool written in Java/Swing. It is written to provide metadata for the Kodi Media Center (formerly known as XBMC), MediaPortal and Plex media server.

    16 tinyMediaManager alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Memento Database is a highly flexible, cross-platform tool designed to help you track, organize, and analyze any type of data. Whether you are looking for a mobile-first alternative to Microsoft Access, a truly offline replacement for Airtable, or a more structured relational...

    64 Memento Database alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Java
     
  8. MediaChips icon
     19 likes

    This app for navigating your large video collection. Add tags, performers, websites, sort/filter videos, create playlists and play them in the built-in player.

    38 MediaChips alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Where Is It? icon
     46 likes

    WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs and DVDs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, remote file servers, or...

    39 Where Is It? alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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  10. Media Companion icon
     25 likes

    Free media manager for organizing movies and TV shows, supports XBMC syncing, scrapes metadata, artwork, trailers, and actor images, auto-renames files, exports HTML details with customizable templates, and handles missing episodes and Blu-ray folders.

    10 Media Companion alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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  11. abeMeda icon
     9 likes

    abeMeda is a disk and data library for all your media assets, and almost everything that spins -harddisks, CD's, DVD's, ZIP's... abeMeda creates catalogs of your media and their metadata, and offers them offline for browsing and powerful search operations.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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