GenTidyBest AI Image Organizers in 2026
Every AI image tool is good at making pictures. Very few are good at helping you find one again.
The pattern is familiar to anyone who generates a lot: you get one image you love, you move on, and two weeks later a client or a friend asks for "that one, but blue." The image is somewhere in a downloads folder. The prompt that made it is gone, buried in a chat thread or overwritten by the next twenty tries.
People patch this with folders by date, spreadsheets of prompts, or a notes app full of copy-pasted text. Those systems only work if you update them by hand every single time. The fix that keeps coming up is simpler: keep the prompt attached to the image, not next to it.
This list covers the tools that do that in 2026, from local organizers for Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI users to hosted studios and browser extensions that save the prompt for you at the moment you generate. Full disclosure: GenTidy is our product, and it is listed first. We've tried to be clear about where each option fits, including where another tool is the better choice.
What to look for
The prompt travels with the image. If the prompt lives in a separate note, a chat history, or your memory, you will lose it. The best tools either read it from the file's metadata or save it at the moment you generate.
Versions, not overwrites. The image you want back is often not the last one. It's the one from three edits ago, before you changed the lighting. A tool that keeps each version, with the prompt that made it, lets you go back without guessing.
Search by what you wrote. Scrolling thumbnails stops working after a few hundred images. You want to type "ink", "neon", or a client name and get every match, with the prompt next to it.
Where you generate. If you run Stable Diffusion or ComfyUI locally, your files usually already carry the prompt in their metadata, so a local browser that reads it is a great fit. If you generate on hosted tools, the downloaded file often carries nothing, so you need something that captures the prompt at the source.
Images and video together. More people now make short clips alongside stills. If your organizer only understands PNGs, half your work ends up somewhere else.
The list
1. GenTidy — best if you want generation and organization in one place
GenTidy is an AI image and video studio built for AI creators, on the web and as a Mac app. Instead of organizing files after the fact, it saves every prompt together with the image at the moment you generate, and keeps versions, so the image from three edits ago is still there with the prompt that made it.
You generate with Seedream for images and Seedance for video. In the web studio (early access), image and video generation records are saved to your account with their prompts. The Mac app (public build coming soon) keeps generated images and short videos in one local library, and you can summon it from any app with one shortcut (⌘P by default, remappable).
- Good for: creators who generate on hosted models and are tired of copying prompts into notes.
- Prompt kept with the image: yes, saved automatically at generation time.
- Versions: yes, versions are kept with their prompts.
- Limits: it organizes what you make in GenTidy; it is not a viewer for an existing folder of local Stable Diffusion outputs. If that is your main need, look at the local tools below.
GenTidy is currently in early access. Join the waitlist.
2. Image MetaHub — best local library for ComfyUI and A1111 users
Image MetaHub is a local-first desktop app that turns your existing output folders into a searchable library. According to its site and GitHub README, it reads generation metadata from ComfyUI, A1111, InvokeAI, Forge and more, and lets you search by prompt, filename, folder, checkpoint, LoRA, seed, sampler and other fields. It handles images, video, audio and 3D models, has a Prompt Library for saving positive and negative prompts, and offers an opt-in local "Find Similar" visual search that works even on files without metadata. Files stay on your machine with no upload or account required. There is a free version and a paid Pro tier (which includes a Model Manager for LoRAs and checkpoints).
- Good for: heavy local Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI users with large folders.
- Limits: depends on metadata in the file; images downloaded from hosted tools often carry none (visual search helps here).
Source: imagemetahub.com, github.com/LuqP2/Image-MetaHub
3. GenCatalog — best for archiving work from many hosted platforms
GenCatalog describes itself as a searchable local library for AI images and videos on Mac and Windows, with an iPhone and iPad version in early testing. On supported creation sites it can save a result in one click with its prompt, settings, source link and other available context, and it can also import from watched output folders, including ComfyUI. Its site lists platforms such as Midjourney, Grok Imagine, Gemini, GPT Image, Higgsfield, Dzine and Venice. You can search by prompt text, tags, models, platforms, filenames, notes and account, and keep "Generation Recipes" that hold prompts, settings and models together. It is local by default and offers a free trial.
- Good for: people who generate across several hosted tools and want one private archive.
- Limits: capture quality depends on what each source platform exposes ("when the source provides it", in its own words).
Source: gencatalog.app
4. Dreamdrive — best lightweight browser extension
Dreamdrive is a Chrome extension that saves each AI image and video at full size with its prompt and settings into one searchable library, which you can sort by client. Its site lists support for a long list of platforms, including Midjourney, ChatGPT, Gemini, Adobe Firefly, Runway, Kling, Luma Dream Machine, Pika, Krea, Recraft, Civitai and more, and says your saves remain even after the platform deletes them.
- Good for: freelancers who work in the browser across many tools and organize by client.
- Limits: a Chrome extension, so it captures what you make in the browser.
Source: dreamdrive.ai
5. Infinite Image Browsing — best free, open-source browser for SD WebUI
Infinite Image Browsing (IIB) is an open-source image and video browser. Its README lists support for Stable Diffusion web UI, Fooocus, NovelAI, StableSwarmUI and Invoke.AI, with partial ComfyUI support. It turns prompts, models and LoRAs into searchable tags, supports fuzzy and advanced search, favorites via custom tags, media type filtering and auto-tagging rules.
- Good for: SD WebUI users who want a fast, free browser.
- Limits: ComfyUI support is listed as partial; local files only.
Source: github.com/zanllp/sd-webui-infinite-image-browsing
6. Diffusion Toolkit — best for Windows users who want a metadata indexer
Diffusion Toolkit is an open-source metadata indexer and viewer for AI-generated images. Per its README, it scans images and videos, indexes prompts and other metadata, and lets you search by metadata, tag, rate, sort, build albums, and list prompts and negative prompts with the images that used them. It reads A1111-compatible, InvokeAI, NovelAI, Fooocus and Stable Swarm metadata, among others.
- Good for: Windows users with big local SD libraries.
- Limits: runs on Windows only.
Source: github.com/RupertAvery/DiffusionToolkit
Quick comparison
| Tool | Type | Platforms | Prompt kept with image | Works with hosted tools | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GenTidy | Generation studio + library | Web (early access), Mac app (coming soon) | Saved at generation | Yes (generates in-app) | Yes |
| Image MetaHub | Local library | Desktop (Windows, macOS) | Read from file metadata | Limited (visual search) | Yes |
| GenCatalog | Local archive + capture | Mac, Windows (iPhone and iPad in early testing) | Captured from site or file | Yes, supported sites | Yes |
| Dreamdrive | Chrome extension | Chrome | Captured from page | Yes, supported sites | Yes |
| Infinite Image Browsing | Open-source browser | Local | Read from file metadata | No | Yes |
| Diffusion Toolkit | Open-source indexer | Windows | Read from file metadata | No | Yes (MP4) |
How to choose
- You run ComfyUI or A1111 locally: start with Image MetaHub, or Infinite Image Browsing / Diffusion Toolkit if you want open source.
- You generate across many hosted sites and want an archive: GenCatalog or Dreamdrive.
- You want one place to generate images and video and never lose the prompt or an earlier version: GenTidy.
FAQ
What is the best way to keep AI prompts with my images? Use a tool that attaches the prompt automatically, either by reading it from the file's metadata (Image MetaHub, Infinite Image Browsing, Diffusion Toolkit) or by saving it when you generate or capture (GenTidy, GenCatalog, Dreamdrive). Manual notes and spreadsheets break down quickly.
Why don't images from hosted AI tools show their prompt? Many hosted tools don't embed the prompt in the downloaded file, so local metadata readers have nothing to read. For those, you need a tool that captures the prompt at the source, such as a studio that saves it for you or a browser extension.
Can I organize AI videos as well as images? Yes. All six tools on this list handle video in some form, according to their own sites or READMEs. In GenTidy, image and video generation records are saved with their prompts, and the Mac app keeps both in one local library.
Conclusion
The best AI image organizer is the one that matches where you generate. Local Stable Diffusion users are well served by metadata readers. Hosted-tool users need capture at the source. And if you'd rather generate and organize in the same place, with every prompt and every version saved automatically, GenTidy is built for exactly that.