Kariel is a library for the images, videos and references you collect. Save from your browser, add from your phone, sort it your way, and find it again in seconds. All of it stays on your own computer.
For Mac, Windows and Android, with a Web Clipper for Chrome, Edge and Firefox. iPhone and iPad are in review with Apple.
Somewhere there’s a reference you saved last spring. It’s in a folder called “New folder (3)”, or a screenshot named “Image 2214”, or a tab you closed a little too fast.
Saving was never the hard part. Finding it again is.
The Web Clipper lives in your browser. Pick a folder, add a few tags, and whatever caught your eye is in your library before you’ve finished scrolling.
Meet the Web ClipperImages, video, the page itself, a screenshot of part of it, or a recording.
Choose the folder, tags and properties before you save, not after.
Every save keeps its link and the page’s own description.
A few things the clipper does that a right-click never will.
Open any clip and the source link, description, colors and your own notes are right beside it.
On sites you use a lot, Kariel adds a quick-save to every image, and brings the site’s tags along.
A mural on your walk. A shopfront. A color you can’t stop looking at. Share it to Kariel from any app, or add it straight from your camera roll.
Your phone keeps its own library, and you can pair it with your desktop to browse everything you’ve saved there.
Use as much structure as you like, or hardly any. Kariel doesn’t mind either way.
Nest folders as deep as you want. Give tags parents, so tagging “oak” also files it under “trees”, and aliases for the names you type all day.
Group related tags into one idea, like “Character” or “Client”, and give it the fields you need: dates, numbers, links, checkboxes.
Save a search as a folder. Everything five-star, landscape and tagged “reference” lands there by itself, today and next year.
Tell Kariel what to do when something happens: tag everything dropped in a folder, move five-star picks, or run your own script on new imports.
Super tags and your own fields
Smart Folders
Automations
Search by name or tag, then narrow it down by color, rating, shape, size, length or date. Thousands of files shrink to the three you were thinking of.
Pick a color and see everything close to it, with a tolerance you control.
Ratings, reactions, orientation, dimensions, duration, file type, notes.
The grid only loads what you’re looking at, so big libraries stay smooth.
Images, video, documents and 3D models all preview inside Kariel.
Look closely, and keep tags, notes, colors and ratings one glance away.
Before a second copy goes in, Kariel shows you the one you already have. Keep it, keep both, or fold the new tags into the old one.
You find out in the moment, not three years and four thousand images later.
When you import, you choose: copy files into Kariel, or leave them where they already live and let Kariel keep track of them.
No forced duplicates, and no filling your drive for the sake of a tidy folder. If you move something later, Kariel helps you relink it.
Lock a folder behind your library password, and choose how far Kariel goes to protect it.
Protected files still open inside Kariel once you unlock them, without leaving an unprotected copy lying around.
Hides and locks the folder in Kariel. The files on disk stay as they are.
Encrypts the part of each file that makes it readable. Locks and unlocks quickly, even for big video.
Encrypts every byte. Slower on large files, and as private as it gets.
Point Kariel at your Eagle library and it comes across as it is. Using something else? A .kimport file brings in libraries from other tools.
Some sites deserve more than a generic save button. Kariel can add its own controls inside a website, like a quick-save on every image in a gallery.
The site’s own tags and details come along, mapped to the fields you chose. For the odd one out, a few lines of JavaScript do the rest.
Kariel isn’t a cloud service. Your files never have to leave your machine.
Kariel gets bigger every release. These are plans, not promises, but they’re the ones we’re working on now.
Start with the desktop app, then add the clipper and your phone.
