Videre – a Rust CLI to manage your photos and videos with joy
Indexes your photos and videos locally in one Rust CLI, finds duplicates and faces.
Videre is a single Rust binary that indexes photos and videos into one local SQLite file, so you can find duplicates, fix wrong dates, group similar faces, and search by what, where and when — all without uploading anything. It never moves, renames, copies or re-encodes your files; only fix-dates touches file metadata, and only when you run it. It also ships a built-in MCP server and JSON output, so an agent like Claude can search and organize through it directly.
What holds up
- +Nothing uploads — duplicate detection, face grouping and search all run on your machine
- +Only touches file metadata when you explicitly run fix-dates — otherwise files stay untouched
- +Apache 2.0 open source, so the whole indexing and search logic is auditable
Mind the limits
- −Command-line first — the web gallery helps, but there's no full native GUI app
- −No cloud backup or sync — your index and library both live on one machine
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