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A local manager for your video collections

Built up a big collection of videos and no good way to browse it? Loshelf is a fast, private video collection manager. Point it at your folders and it turns a pile of clips, recordings and downloads into a beautiful, searchable library, with hover previews and a proper built-in player, all on your own machine.

Built for big collections

Loshelf stays fast whether you have a few hundred clips or many thousands, across dozens of folders and drives.

See every clip on hover

Video cards play short previews as you hover, so you know what a clip is without opening it.

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.

A player built in

Scrub, change playback speed, pop out into picture-in-picture, and pick up right where you left off.

Plays awkward formats

WMV, AVI, MKV and other formats just work. Loshelf converts them for playback, or opens them in your system player.

Local and private

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

See every clip before you open it

Hover over any video and its thumbnail springs to life, crossfading through short preview clips pulled from across the whole video, each with a duration badge. It’s the fastest way to make sense of a big collection without opening a single file.

A player built for your collection

A clean built-in player with everything you’d expect: scrub with a live frame preview, change playback speed, go picture-in-picture or fullscreen, and resume right where you left off. You can even pin a note to an exact moment on the timeline and jump straight back to it later.
Loshelf's built-in video player

Find any clip in a huge collection

Add tags, ratings and emoji symbols, then filter by duration and resolution, sort the longest to the top, or search by name and note text. However large the collection grows, the right clip is only a few clicks away.
Searching and filtering a large video collection in Loshelf

More than home videos

Loshelf is at home with movies, recordings, downloads, screen captures, gameplay footage or any large video collection you’ve built up. If you have clips scattered across folders and drives and want one beautiful, private place to browse and organize them, that’s exactly what it’s built for. Your photos are welcome too, they get the same first-class treatment as your videos.

Questions

What is the best way to manage a large video 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 play WMV, AVI and MKV files?

Yes. Formats a browser can't normally play are handled for you: Loshelf converts them for playback automatically in the background, or, if you prefer, opens them straight in your system's default player.

Can I browse videos without opening each one?

Yes. Every video card plays short hover-to-play previews pulled from across the clip, and the timeline shows a live frame preview as you scrub, so you can find the right moment fast.

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, play, tag or search your collection.

Try Loshelf free

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