LuqP2/Image-MetaHub

What it solves

Image MetaHub is a local-first desktop application designed to manage and explore large libraries of AI-generated media. It solves the problem of losing track of the prompts, models, and workflows used to create specific images or videos, keeping the generation metadata connected to the the files themselves without requiring cloud uploads.

How it works

The app scans local folders and extracts metadata from a wide variety of popular AI generators (such as Automatic1111, ComfyUI, and Midjourney). It caches these results for fast searching and filtering. For users of ComfyUI, it provides a dedicated workspace and a companion Save Node to capture detailed workflow and performance analytics. It also includes a local visual search feature that uses an on-device model to find visually similar images regardless of metadata availability.

Who it’s for

AI artists and creators who generate large volumes of media using tools like Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, and InvokeAI and need a professional-grade way to organize, filter, and retrieve their outputs locally.

Highlights

• Local-first Privacy: No mandatory accounts or cloud sync; all indexing and metadata stay on the user's machine.
• Extensive Metadata Support: Parses parameters from Automatic1111, ComfyUI, InvokeAI, SD.Next, Forge, Fooocus, Midjourney, and more.
• Local Visual Search: On-device visual similarity search for discovering related images without prompts.
• ComfyUI Integration: Embedded workspace with live generation previews, workflow-native editing, and direct queueing.
• Image Lineage: Tracks and displays the history of transformations like img2img, inpainting, and outpainting.
• Advanced Curation: Features faceted sidebar filters, prompt clustering, TF-IDF auto-tagging, and a built-in image editor.
• Analytics Explorer: Provides metrics on generation performance, VRAM usage, and timing for images created with the MetaHub Save Node.