Eagle alternative
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.
| GalleriGet Galleri | Eagle | |
|---|---|---|
| Systems | ||
| Windows | ||
| LinuxDebian and Ubuntu, 64-bit | ||
| macOS | SoonApple silicon, in testing | |
| Finding a picture | ||
| Describe itType what is in it and find it, offline | Reads the picture itselfFinds ones nobody tagged. In English | Reads the text on the fileNames, notes, descriptions. AI Search plugin |
| Similar picturesThe ones that look most like it | YesAI Search plugin | |
| By colourPick a colour, see what is made of it | ||
| Words inside documentsA word from a PDF or a Word file finds it | ||
| Suggested tagsTags read off the picture | Built in, on your computerMaterial, form and tone | Through AI ActionWith an AI model you set up |
| Notes | ||
| A note on any itemA few lines on a picture, a sound or a video, found by search | ||
| Whole notesHeadings, to-dos, code and pages behind a /, even a Spotify or Apple Music card | ||
| Plain Markdown filesSaved as you type and readable anywhere; a .md file comes in as a note | ||
| Export as PDFA cover in any colour, set in sans or Source Serif | ||
| Voice notesRecorded into the library, paused and resumed as you like | ||
| Reading PDFs and Word | ||
| Open them in the library | A reader beside the picturesPDF, Word and Markdown | A previewPDF, DOC and DOCX |
| Highlights and commentsFive inks, comments anywhere on a page, every mark in one list | ||
| Draw over a scan or a pictureA highlighter in four widths | YesAnnotate, on images | |
| Keep your placeA reading status, every page and heading down the side, a reading mode | ||
| Organising | ||
| Smart foldersFolders that fill themselves from rules | ||
| Find duplicates | ||
| Graph of the libraryEvery collection on one surface, filed by dragging | ||
| Archives as foldersA .zip, .rar or .7z imports like a folder | ||
| Saving and keeping | ||
| Browser extension | ChromeFull size, with the page it came from | YesBatch saving, HD downloads, screenshots |
| Built into X and PinterestA Save button in X’s share menu and by Pinterest’s board picker | ||
| On your diskThe library is yours, not a server’s | ||
| Videos, sounds and fonts | ||
| Videos play under the pointerSilent while you browse the grid | ||
| A video player | Made for GalleriFive-second skips, speed, loop, full screen; Space, M, L | |
| Sounds play on their card | From anywhere on the waveformStarting one stops the other | YesHover preview |
| Fonts | A specimen in its own typeTitled with the family in the file | Previewed without installingAnd installed fonts identified |
| Buying it | ||
| Price | $6.90 a month or $79.90 once$55.93 for the first 100 buyers | $34.95 once |
| ComputersWhere 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.
- 01
It runs on Linux
Galleri installs on Debian and Ubuntu, and the same licence covers Windows. Eagle is made for Windows and macOS.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 1Get Galleri
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.
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Yes. Galleri installs on Debian and Ubuntu (64-bit) from a .deb package, and one licence covers Linux and Windows.
Yes. Import from Eagle brings your pictures with their tag groups and folder tags.
Yes. The vision model is downloaded once and runs on your computer. Your pictures and what you search for never leave it.
Soon. The version for Apple silicon (M1 and later) is in performance testing before its release, and the same licence will cover it.