GDImageDB

The Software

GDImageDB is a lightweight, multi-platform software for collecting, tagging and viewing images and videos. The idea of this project is to bring 'booru' like functionality to your desktop.
Tagging images allows for quickly searching large collections and the portable nature of the software makes it easy to synchronize via onedrive, dropbox, syncthing, or similar means.

The Source Code

Now available on GitHub.

The technology

As the name implies, GDImageDB is implemented using the Godot engine. Written entirely in GDScript, it is easy to port to multiple platforms and to ensure compatibility to future Godot versions.
The database is entirely file based. Imported files are copied into a managed folder structure and all path and tag data is retained in an SQLite database.
Big thanks to the godot-sqlite project for making this implementation a breeze to work with.

Once created, a GDImageDB database is fully portable between Windows and Linux versions of the software.

The database will be created next to the executable file. Please make sure you have write permissions in the folder with the executable.

Features and limitations

Currently the following file formats are supported: .jpg, .png, .webp, .bmp, .gif, .mp4, .webm, .mov, .avi
Maximum resolution: 16384x16384
The available formats and resolution are limited by what is supported in the Godot engine and underlying APIs, or by what can be implemented with add-ons.

Future plans

There are a few features I would still like to add to the software.

• Adding copy & paste features (planned for future godot version)
• Adding native Wayland support (WiP in godot engine)