Picdex

If you screenshot Instagram, TikTok or YouTube posts that mention an anime, a manga, a light novel or a film, those screenshots pile up in a folder and stop being useful. You remember that you saved something — but not what, or where.

Picdex reads the titles written in them — one screenshot can name several — and gives you a library you can search, sort and filter. There is no account, no sign-up, and no server of mine. You buy it once and it keeps working.

01What it does

Point it at your folders, or drag screenshots into the window. It works from its own copies and never moves, renames or alters the screenshots in your folders.
It reads the text in each image and picks out the titles written there — one post, comment thread or list can name several. This happens on your machine — the recognition model ships inside the app.
It matches each title against dictionaries that ship with the app — anime, light novels, films and series — on your disk, offline. Manga, manhwa and manhua have no built-in dictionary, so their cards show fewer details. Each card's picture is your own screenshot, so nothing is downloaded to make it look right.
You get a library. Search, sort, filter, export it to Excel, and jump from an entry back to the screenshot it came from. Where it guessed wrong, you correct it — and the correction stays corrected.

02How accurate is it

≈65%

of the works named in my test screenshots, mostly from Instagram, get the right title in the right category. Some of them wait for your OK in the review queue.

The number depends on your screenshots. A post that only hints at a title without writing it gives Picdex nothing to read, by design.

I would rather tell you that number than let you find it out after paying. The app is built around being wrong sometimes: when it is unsure, it asks you in the review queue — one click when the right title is among its suggestions, otherwise you type the name — and your fix stays; a title it filed on its own you correct on that title's page. I am working on raising that number. If accuracy on your own screenshots is what decides the purchase — buy it, try it on a small folder first, and use Steam's refund if it does not hold up. That is what the refund window is for: 14 days from purchase and under 2 hours of use. Steam counts the time Picdex runs, including while it sits in the tray after you close its window, so choose Quit in its tray icon's menu when you stop. Without a graphics card recognition can take minutes per screenshot, so keep the first try small.

03What it does not do

Not a screenshot manager

It is built for one job: finding the titles buried in screenshots of posts.

Nothing goes out

It does not post, sync, or upload your images anywhere.

No scraping

It never touches a social platform. It only reads image files you already have.

No guessing from artwork

If the post does not name the title in text, Picdex says so instead of inventing one.

It covers anime, manga, manhwa, manhua, light novels, films and series. A film or series is matched by its exact name and waits for you to confirm it, unless the screenshot also gives its year.

04What leaves your computer

Nothing, by default: Picdex works fully offline. Recognition, the title dictionary and every picture in your library are on your disk. Picdex makes no network request unless you turn one on.

If you want it, there is a partial online mode: one optional network feature, off until you turn it on in the Network card of the Admin screen. Picdex asks for your OK when you turn it on.

Dictionary updates. When you press Update dictionaries, Picdex downloads the latest anime title list that the manami project has published on GitHub. The project has since archived its repository, and its last list, published on 4 July 2026, is the one Picdex 0.1.0 already carries, so an update downloads the same list again unless the project resumes.

As with any website, GitHub sees your IP address when Picdex downloads the list from it (from github.com and its download host, release-assets.githubusercontent.com).

Your screenshots never leave your machine.

There is no telemetry, no crash reporting, no analytics, no licence check, no account and no update ping. Block Picdex at the firewall and nothing changes, except dictionary updates if you turned them on.

05Where your data lives

Your screenshots stay where they were. Picdex works from its own copy of each screenshot you add, and keeps those copies with the rest of its data — the index, your corrections, settings, logs — in one folder:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Picdex

Plain files you can see, copy and delete. You can choose another folder for the library on the Admin screen; the logs stay here. To back up, quit Picdex first: choose Quit in its tray icon's menu (right-click the icon by the clock), or Close Picdex when the window's × asks. Then copy that folder, and your library folder too if you chose a different one. Uninstalling does not touch your screenshots.

06Requirements

Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit or newer. No macOS, Linux or phone version.
Processor: 64-bit with AVX2
Graphics: Not required. Without a graphics card recognition runs on the processor, which is much slower — minutes per screenshot instead of seconds.
Disk space: 8 GB for the app — most of it the recognition model, which ships with the app rather than running in the cloud — plus room for your library, which keeps its own copy of every screenshot you add.
Window size: 820 × 620 minimum. Designed for 1366 × 768 and larger.
Language: English and Ukrainian interface.
Internet: Not needed. Used only by one optional feature, off by default: dictionary updates.

07Price

$10 on Steam, in Early Access. One payment. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no DLC. Install it on as many of your own computers as you like.

Early Access means Picdex is still being developed and changes through updates. Everything on this page works in the current version, and the price is not planned to change when Early Access ends.

Get it on Steam

08Support

If something is broken, start at the support page — it is organised by symptom. If that does not cover it, write to support@picdex.dev. Picdex is made by one person; I reply within seven working days.

09Privacy

This website. It sets no cookies of its own, runs no analytics script and loads nothing from anywhere else. No contact form, no newsletter, no tracking script. It is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare receives each request your browser makes, including your IP address, the page asked for and your browser's name, to deliver the page and protect the site from attacks. It also uses the country your IP address comes from to open the Ukrainian pages for visitors from Ukraine; the language link at the top of every page switches the language at any time. It may set a short-lived cookie to filter automated traffic, and if a page fails to load, your browser may send Cloudflare an error report. Cloudflare shows me totals, such as the number of requests and visitors and the countries they come from. For requests its security features challenge or block, it also shows me a sample with the IP address, country, browser name and page. I use that only to keep the site running. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
The app. Picdex collects nothing about you and sends nothing to me. By default it makes no network requests at all; the one optional feature is described above.
Email you send me. Mail to support@picdex.dev is received and stored for me by my mail provider, Purelymail, a US company. I keep your message, anything you attach to it and my reply for as long as needed to answer you and to recognise the same problem if it comes back — 24 months at most. A log file you attach can contain folder paths, which often include your Windows user name, and the names of titles in your library. I use all of it only to answer you. I do not share it with anyone else, sell it, or add you to any list. You can ask me for a copy of what I hold, or to delete it.