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A local manager for your image collections and galleries

Built up a big collection of images and don’t have a nice way to browse it? Loshelf is a fast, private image collection and gallery manager. Point it at your folders and it turns years of saved art, wallpapers, references, screenshots and everything else into a beautiful, searchable library, all on your own machine.

Built for big collections

Loshelf stays fast whether you have a few thousand images or a million, across dozens of folders and drives.

Every folder is a gallery

Give any folder a cover and a banner so your collection browses like a shelf of galleries, not a plain file tree.

Browse beautifully

A balanced masonry grid you can scale from tiny thumbnails to large previews, with smooth, instant scrolling.

Tag, rate and find anything

Add tags, star ratings and emoji markers, then filter by tag, rating, resolution or orientation to resurface any image.

Any kind of image

JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, TIFF and animated GIFs all sit side by side. Art, wallpapers, references, memes, whatever you collect.

Local and private

Everything stays on your own machine. No cloud, no account, no uploads, no tracking.

Browse a huge collection without the lag

Your images flow into a balanced masonry grid that you can scale from a dense contact sheet to large previews. It loads as you scroll and stays smooth even across hundreds of thousands of files, so a giant collection is finally a pleasure to browse instead of a chore.
A large image collection browsed in Loshelf's masonry grid

Turn folders into a wall of galleries

Collections usually live across dozens of folders. Loshelf shows each one as a gallery card with a cover image, a banner and its counts, so you browse by gallery instead of digging through a file tree. Perfect for keeping separate sets, art packs or references neatly apart but all in one place.
Folders shown as galleries with cover images in Loshelf

Find one image among hundreds of thousands

Add tags, ratings and emoji symbols, then search by name or filter by tag, rating, resolution and orientation to pull up exactly what you want in seconds. Everything is index-backed, so search stays fast no matter how large the collection grows.
Searching and filtering a large image collection in Loshelf

More than a photo organizer

Loshelf isn’t only for family snapshots. It’s just as at home with digital art, wallpapers, reference boards, screenshots, memes or any large image collection you’ve built up over the years. If you have galleries scattered across folders and drives and want one beautiful, private place to browse and organize them, that’s exactly what it’s built for. Videos are welcome too, they get the same first-class treatment as your images.

Questions

What is the best way to manage a large image collection?

Keep the files on your own disk and use a local manager like Loshelf to browse and organize them in place. Loshelf reads your existing folders, builds a fast, searchable library on your PC, and never uploads anything.

Can Loshelf organize art, wallpapers and memes, not just photos?

Yes. Loshelf works with any images: JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, TIFF and animated GIFs. Digital art, wallpapers, reference images, screenshots and memes all sit side by side, just like your photos.

Does it handle a collection spread across many folders?

Yes. Every folder becomes a browsable gallery with its own cover image, you can search within a single folder or across the whole library, and filter folders by how deeply nested they are.

Is Loshelf free?

Yes. The free version covers one library of up to 10,000 files. A one-time $29 (no subscription) unlocks unlimited libraries and files.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Loshelf runs entirely offline, with no account and no connection required to browse, tag or search your collection.

Try Loshelf free

Free for 1 library of 10,000 files · one-time $29 for unlimited