TagSpaces - Just files

TagSpaces GmbH

About this app

The description of TagSpaces App
TagSpaces lets you organize, tag and browse your files, photos and documents on many platforms.

Great for:
★ Browsing, tagging, viewing and editing of your local files directly in the app without the need of external applications
★ Create and manage notes and saved web pages
★ Creating your personal wiki system

Key Features:
★ Basic file and folder management
★ File tagging based on the files names and sidecar files
★ Integrated PDF and MHT viewers
★ Integrated markdown viewer and editor
★ Advanced WYSIWYG rich text editor
★ Simple text and source code viewer and editor supporting most of the common programming languages

What is TagSpaces?
★ File manager, which allows you to navigate and organize your local files with the help of tags.
★ An extensible platform providing a consistent, cross-platform user interface for your files.
★ A purely offline running application, which is internet independent.

TagSpaces is available for free as native application for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and as browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.

Ratings and reviews

I've been using TS across multiple devices since 2015. It's the closest thing to my ideal tagging software that exists. I wish I could endorse it here. It's a buggy mess. Tagging more than 20 files at once either takes ten minutes or crashes it outright. In the latest update that's on Google Play whole parts of the screen blank out constantly, you can't open files after a search, the UI is cluttered by a constant re-emerging "buy the full version" popup. So much more I don't have room to say.

Hot mess... with potential? Use this on PC, where it is very useful. Here it is just broken. Between execrable performance (load, tag, search), functions that appear to do nothing, silent failures, options that only work on PC (like being prompted to download a PC version to update my phone app), and constant nagging to upgrade to a paid version (which one assumes doesn't work any better) this is a hot mess and can't be recommended. Still, could be great, if it, you know, actually worked.