GCstar is an application for managing personal collections. The software manages collections for movies, video games, books, music, coins, wines, board games, comic books, TV episodes, periodicals, computer software, mini vehicles and more.
Detailed information on each item can be automatically retrieved from the Internet and the user can store additional data, such as the location or whom he/she has lent them to. The user may also search and filter the collection by criteria.
GCstar is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Automatic retrieval from various internet websites.
- Import collections from Tellico, Alexandria, and Ant Movie Catalog.
- Export to various formats including HTML, XML, and SQL.
- Lending managements.
- Store personalized ratings, ranking and comments for each entry.
- Smart cards.
- Statistics.
- Skins.
- Internationalization support.
Website: gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar
Support:
Developer: Christian Jodar, Nyall Dawson, Adolfo Gonzale
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
GCstar is written in Perl. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| Collection Managers | |
|---|---|
| HomeBox | Self-hosted inventory and organisation system |
| GCStar | Wonderfully versatile software for managing personal collections |
| Tellico | Easy to use KDE application for organizing your collections |
| hydrus | Danbooru-like image tagging and search system |
| Alexandria | Book collection manager for GNOME |
| Data Crow | Ultimate media cataloger and media organiser |
| OpenNumismat | Coin collecting software |
| Koillection | Self-hosted collection manager |
| VVV | Catalog the content of removable volumes for off-line searching |
| tinyMediaManager | Media management tool |
| StuffKeeper | Generic catalog software |
| Griffith | Movie collection manager |
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It used to be an excellent programme! Used…….. The new version doesn’t work on Ubuntu 20.04; it refuses to deal with back-up files (tar.gz) and above all the ‘look up’ is useless, i.e. it goes nowhere sensible.
(Had to resort to an old Microsoft windows7 box to view any of my collections!
Not good.
On going to their website I got a ‘possible’ solution, but that is one beyond my skills. Sorry.
I too found that this will no longer work with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Sad, as my old box (18.04LTS) crashed and died. I was able to get an older (1.6.1) version to work under WINE, but it is and seems more limited that what I had working under Ubuntu Linux 18.04LTS
Their Website doesn’t work
Effectively their website is their GitLab repository for now.