TMSU Alternatives

TMSU is described as 'Tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to TMSU for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Microsoft Edge apps. The best TMSU alternative is TagStudio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TMSU are TagSpaces, Tabbles, Keepmark and allTags.

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  1. TagStudio icon
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    TagStudio is a photo & file organization application with an underlying tag-based system that focuses on giving freedom and flexibility to the user. No proprietary programs or formats, no sea of sidecar files, and no complete upheaval of your filesystem structure.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. TagSpaces icon
     245 likes

    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.

    100 TagSpaces alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  3. Tabbles icon
     78 likes

    Uses a visual, tag-based system to categorize files and folders without moving or duplicating them, enabling ad hoc combination of tags for intuitive search and retrieval, supporting large document collections and visual category management for greater flexibility.

    34 Tabbles alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Outlook
     
  4. Keepmark icon
     22 likes

    Keepmark is a desktop, privacy first documents organizer. You can organize with it your files, email, bookmarks, tasks, news, and other resources. Its available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Comments about Keepmark as an Alternative to TMSU
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    File tagging is secondary functionality, tags only available inside software.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Keepmark is Paid and ProprietaryTMSU is Free and Open Source
    • Keepmark is Privacy focusedTMSU is not according to our users
  5. allTags icon
     16 likes

    allTags is a free, tag based file management application. It was designed to speed up file handling even in very large file sets.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Stagsi icon
     8 likes

    Hackable SQLite-based tagging, any file format, with scripts and C# plugins, powerful search query language, 100k+ files managed with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. Docspell icon
     9 likes

    Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess 😉.

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. TagFlow icon
     9 likes

    TagFlow is a simple, intelligent and efficient files manager based on tags. It allows you to easily organize, find, share and backup all your files by tagging them. Organize and find your files is easily and will improve your file organisation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Tags icon
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    Tags allows you to manage your files in a way far superior to folders. Work faster, and be more efficient.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • 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
     
  11. TagsForAll icon
     4 likes

    An excellent solution based on tags/keywords for streamlining the access to images, documents, photos, books, multimedia content, and so on.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    tagfs is Fuse file system to organize your files using tags.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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