Ambit is a local-first desktop app for organizing large AI-generated image libraries. It helps you import folders, browse fast, search by generation metadata, resolve model references, and keep library maintenance work on your own machine.
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- Local library management: Catalog image folders without moving your source files, then review, remove, recover, and maintain records from one desktop workspace.
- Generation-aware metadata: Parse prompts, workflows, resources, dimensions, hashes, and model references from common AI image outputs.
- Fast search and filtering: Use SQLite-backed queries, facets, collections, and saved search state to stay responsive across large libraries.
- Performance-focused browsing: Virtualized grids, thumbnail handling, and minimized IPC keep day-to-day browsing usable as collections grow.
- Optional intelligence tools: Gemini-backed actions are available only when you configure your own key and explicitly run an AI feature.
- Privacy-conscious by default: Core browsing, search, metadata parsing, thumbnails, and settings work locally without telemetry.
- Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Zustand, React Query
- Backend: Rust with Tauri v2 and SQLite (
rusqlite) - Desktop distribution: GitHub Releases with Tauri updater artifacts
Ambit is local-first. Core library management, browsing, search, metadata parsing, thumbnails, maintenance, and settings work on local files without telemetry.
The public beta has a small set of disclosed network paths:
- Automatic update checks contact GitHub Releases when enabled. Updates are downloaded and installed only after you confirm the prompt.
- Gemini features are optional. Requests are sent only when you configure a key and run an AI action or key verification.
- CivitAI model-hash resolution is optional. It runs only after you confirm Resolve Online and sends unresolved model hash strings, not image files.
- GitHub Sponsors, Ko-fi, and project links open only when clicked.
Ambit is currently in public beta. Current builds are published on GitHub Releases.
Official public beta builds are currently available for Windows only while macOS and Linux support is being validated.
Maintainer-triggered Linux and macOS artifacts may appear separately as experimental community test builds.
- Download the Windows setup installer (
-setup.exe) from the release assets. - Install and launch the app.
- Report bugs or feedback through GitHub Issues.
The Windows installer includes the packaged app. You do not need Node.js, pnpm, Rust, or VS Code unless you want to build Ambit from source.
For a step-by-step product guide, see the Ambit User Manual.
For local development, Ambit requires Node.js 24 or newer, pnpm 11.5.3, and Rust 1.96.0 as pinned by rust-toolchain.toml.
git clone https://github.com/AsuraAce/ambit.git
cd ambit
pnpm install
pnpm run app:devFor checks, branch expectations, and maintainer workflow notes, see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Ambit is currently maintainer-led. Bug reports, documentation corrections, and feature requests are welcome, but code contributions and pull requests are not being accepted during the public beta.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for the current contribution policy.
For security-sensitive reports, follow SECURITY.md instead of opening a public issue.
Ambit is free and open source. Support is optional and there are currently no paid-only features or priority-support tiers.
- Report bugs and feature requests through GitHub Issues.
- Follow packaged builds and release notes on GitHub Releases.
- Support development through GitHub Sponsors.
- Leave a one-time tip on Ko-fi.
Ambit is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 only. See LICENSE for details.