# An Eagle alternative that runs on Linux and reads your pictures.

Galleri is a desktop app for keeping a visual library on your own computer, as Eagle is. It differs in three ways: it runs on Linux as well as Windows, it finds a picture you never tagged when you describe it, offline, and it keeps notes and documents as files beside your pictures. It imports an Eagle library with its tags. macOS is coming soon.

## Galleri and Eagle, side by side.

### Systems

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| Linux (Debian and Ubuntu, 64-bit) | Yes | — |
| macOS | Soon (Apple silicon, in testing) | Yes |

### Finding a picture

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| Describe it (Type what is in it and find it, offline) | Reads the picture itself (Finds ones nobody tagged. In English) | Reads the text on the file (Names, notes, descriptions. AI Search plugin) |
| Similar pictures (The ones that look most like it) | Yes | Yes (AI Search plugin) |
| By colour (Pick a colour, see what is made of it) | Yes | Yes |
| Words inside documents (A word from a PDF or a Word file finds it) | Yes | — |
| Suggested tags (Tags read off the picture) | Built in, on your computer (Material, form and tone) | Through AI Action (With an AI model you set up) |

### Notes

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| A note on any item (A few lines on a picture, a sound or a video, found by search) | Yes | Yes |
| Whole notes (Headings, to-dos, code and pages behind a /, even a Spotify or Apple Music card) | Yes | — |
| Plain Markdown files (Saved as you type and readable anywhere; a .md file comes in as a note) | Yes | — |
| Export as PDF (A cover in any colour, set in sans or Source Serif) | Yes | — |
| Voice notes (Recorded into the library, paused and resumed as you like) | Yes | — |

### Reading PDFs and Word

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| Open them in the library | A reader beside the pictures (PDF, Word and Markdown) | A preview (PDF, DOC and DOCX) |
| Highlights and comments (Five inks, comments anywhere on a page, every mark in one list) | Yes | — |
| Draw over a scan or a picture (A highlighter in four widths) | Yes | Yes (Annotate, on images) |
| Keep your place (A reading status, every page and heading down the side, a reading mode) | Yes | — |

### Organising

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| Smart folders (Folders that fill themselves from rules) | Yes | Yes |
| Find duplicates | Yes | Yes |
| Graph of the library (Every collection on one surface, filed by dragging) | Yes | — |
| Archives as folders (A .zip, .rar or .7z imports like a folder) | Yes | — |

### Saving and keeping

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| Browser extension | Chrome (Full size, with the page it came from) | Yes (Batch saving, HD downloads, screenshots) |
| Built into X and Pinterest (A Save button in X’s share menu and by Pinterest’s board picker) | Yes | — |
| On your disk (The library is yours, not a server’s) | Yes | Yes |

### Videos, sounds and fonts

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| Videos play under the pointer (Silent while you browse the grid) | Yes | Yes |
| A video player | Made for Galleri (Five-second skips, speed, loop, full screen; Space, M, L) | Yes |
| Sounds play on their card | From anywhere on the waveform (Starting one stops the other) | Yes (Hover preview) |
| Fonts | A specimen in its own type (Titled with the family in the file) | Previewed without installing (And installed fonts identified) |

### Buying it

| | Galleri | Eagle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.90 a month or $79.90 once ($55.93 for the first 100 buyers) | $34.95 once |
| Computers (Where one licence works) | All of yours | Two devices |
| Updates | Every new version | Lifetime free updates |

Eagle’s side is from eagle.cool, checked in October 2026; a dash means its site does not list it. Eagle may suit you better if you work on a Mac today, want a 30-day free trial, or depend on its plugins.

## Where Galleri is different.

- **It runs on Linux**: Galleri installs on Debian and Ubuntu, and the same licence covers Windows. Eagle is made for Windows and macOS.
- **It reads the picture, not its label**: Eagle’s natural-language search reads the text attached to a file. Galleri’s model looks at the picture itself, so “a storm at sea” finds the storms you never named.
- **The brief lives with the references**: Notes are whole documents, kept as Markdown files beside the pictures they are about. PDFs and Word files open in a reader where you mark them up.

## Coming from Eagle.

Your library comes with you, tags and all.

1. **Install Galleri**: Sign in with the email and access code from your purchase.
2. **Choose Import from Eagle**: Pick your Eagle library. Your pictures come in with their tag groups and folder tags.
3. **Turn on search by meaning**: The model downloads once and reads the library on your computer. From then on, describing a picture finds it.

## Questions. About moving from Eagle.

### Does Galleri run on Linux?

Yes. Galleri installs on Debian and Ubuntu (64-bit) from a .deb package, and one licence covers Linux and Windows.

### Can I bring my Eagle library to Galleri?

Yes. Import from Eagle brings your pictures with their tag groups and folder tags.

### Is Galleri’s search really offline?

Yes. The vision model is downloaded once and runs on your computer. Your pictures and what you search for never leave it.

### Does Galleri run on a Mac?

Soon. The version for Apple silicon (M1 and later) is in performance testing before its release, and the same licence will cover it.

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Pricing: https://galleri.work/pricing/