Stash

Stash is the best organizing tool for my adult collection right now! I have high hopes that it will get even better with time as the development is ongoing. I have not seen another program that can automatically tag (most) mainstream content based on a large crowdsourced database. The discord server is very active as well and the community is friendly.

really great way to tag your collection.

especially if your content is on stash-box which makes a lot easier to tag your content.

it is a really great way to search your content if you have your performers, studios and tags all setup.

The best organizer for adult content I've found. Relatively easy to setup with Docker if you already have some experience with it, very friendly community on Discord and the easiest way to mass scrape metadata and organize all your media files. Plus it's very extensible with plugins, scrappers and custom CSS themes if you like tinkering around.

They also maintain a database of metadata which makes it even easier to find all information for a certain scene. And if it's not on there you can easily add it yourself.

It can be a bit daunting at first if you're completely new to it and never used any similar tools like Plex/Jellyfin, but in my opinion it is worth to stick through with it. There's lots of documentation to help you out and you can always ask for help on the Discord.

There are also certainly some aspects that could be improved upon, like supporting more types of media like audio clips, short video clips that aren't full scenes, manga/comics, literature/text or mixed playlists of both images/videos. Luckily it's still actively being developed, so I'm sure there will be better solutions at some point.

I have to agree with some other reviewers here, that this software is definitely more for the "data hoarder" type of person, but I never had any trouble actually enjoying/viewing my collection. But if you really don't like the viewing experience there are also plugins to connect your collection with Plex/Jellyfin or Kodi, so you can only use Stash for organizing if you like.

It's FOSS so I would suggest just giving it a shot.

Open source, offline, ad-free, private.

Porn is such a taboo even in today's day and age. Stash code openness and commitment to privacy are what make it stand out from the competition.

It has a very active and friendly community.

Plenty of community scrapers that help you automate metadata scraping. Plugins that extend core functionality and themes to create a custom look.

A pretty robust player with features like activity tracking, playtime counters, file queueing, subtitles, and more.

GraphQL API for more advanced users who want to automate everything.

The biggest weakness is UI. It has so many different options, settings, and undocumented features/workarounds that it requires reading a guide on the best practices or asking for help from the community.

Probably the best manager out there, yea its complicated to use, but theres definitely a lot of potential in this app.

Reason for my 5 stars is due to it being the most community driven application out of all the other ones that i've tried.