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CyberHub Lite is now also available on GitHub: https://github.com/cyberdeliaAI/CyberHub-Lite
CyberHub is a local-first command center for AI image creators. The Lite edition is free and works on its own. Point it at your output folders and you've got a complete tool to browse, search and make sense of every image you've ever generated. No account, no cloud, no uploads. It runs entirely on your own machine over localhost, so your images and prompts never leave your PC.
This isn't a stripped-down demo. Lite is a real, self-contained app that does its job completely. The Full edition adds production tools on top, but nothing here is crippled or time-limited.
CyberHub Lite v1.2.6
A major free update and complete roll-up of every CyberHub Lite improvement released since v1.2.
CyberHub Lite is a private, local gallery and metadata browser for AI-generated images. No cloud upload, no account and no telemetry.
WHAT’S NEW
Much faster Gallery indexing for large image collections.
Files appear quickly while metadata, thumbnails, search data and model information continue processing in the background.Added visible scan and background-processing progress, including Pause and Resume controls.
Added an “All images” view that displays images across every configured root folder.
Added optional grouping by model family, with clear labels and color-coded sections.
Added filesystem watching so new, changed and deleted images can be detected without repeatedly scanning the complete library.
Gallery maintenance is now significantly faster.
Re-index, Rebuild Search, Generate Thumbnails and Optimize Database run as background tasks with visible progress and status information.Improved keyboard workflows.
Use Shift + Arrow keys to extend or shrink selections, navigate the Gallery with the keyboard and delete directly from fullscreen view.Added an optional “Skip delete confirmation” setting.
Deleted files still go to the system trash.Improved metadata extraction for modern ComfyUI and Krea2 workflows.
CyberHub shows the actual generation prompt instead of raw workflow JSON whenever a clean prompt can be extracted.Improved folder cleanup and restoration.
Removed Gallery roots and empty folders are cleaned correctly, and the active folder tree is restored when returning from another module.Improved Windows restart, update ZIP importing and Linux startup diagnostics.
Includes the latest Civitai model-name database, manuals, license information and third-party notices.
UPDATING FROM v1.2
Close CyberHub.
Extract the new ZIP over your existing CyberHub folder and replace the existing files.
Start CyberHub again.
Your settings, Gallery database, favorites and collections are not included in the ZIP and will remain intact.
Do not delete or rebuild your Gallery database after updating. CyberHub upgrades it automatically. The first start may show a one-time background-processing pass while existing image information is updated.
CyberHub Lite remains completely free and works on Windows, macOS and Linux.
What's inside
Gallery — Browse huge collections fast. You get a folder tree, favorites, manual collections, auto-generated thumbnails and a clean metadata panel for every image. It stays smooth on galleries of 100k+ images.
Powerful search — Full-text search over prompts, filenames, models and metadata, backed by a SQLite index so it stays instant even on enormous libraries. It also does fragment search on checkpoint names. Type zit and it finds CyberRealistic_zit_v5.0, even though the fragment sits in the middle of the name.
Reads almost every metadata format — Automatic1111 / Forge, ComfyUI, Civitai, InvokeAI (all variants), NovelAI, SwarmUI, Fooocus / RuinedFooocus / FooocusMRE and EasyDiffusion. Positive prompt, negative prompt, sampler, steps, CFG, seed, model, LoRAs and VAE all land in a tidy panel. There's a Raw view too when you want the unfiltered blob.
Built-in Civitai model lookup — Ships with a local models.json database, so many model hashes resolve straight to readable checkpoint names. You can keep it current from Settings whenever you like.
Viewer & Compare — Full-screen viewing plus side-by-side comparison of 2 to 4 images. They don't have to be next to each other. Ctrl+Click any images from anywhere in your gallery to line them up.
Prompt Library — Save your best prompts as cards, attach the source image and build a personal anthology of what actually works. You can send any image's metadata straight from the Gallery into a Library card in one click.
Private by design
Everything runs locally over http://localhost. No telemetry, no accounts, no cloud. Optional LAN mode lets you open the hub from another device on your own network, gated behind an access token. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Install in a minute
Unzip
cyberhub-lite.zipRun
start.bat(Windows) or./start.sh(macOS/Linux). It sets up Python and downloads fonts automatically on first run.Open the URL it prints, go to Settings, add your image folder. Done.
Requires Python 3.10–3.13. Your image files are never moved or modified. The hub treats your folders as read-only sources.
Want the full studio?
Lite gives you everything you need to organize and search. The Full edition turns CyberHub into a complete production studio and adds the tools that do the heavy lifting:
Civitai Grabber — bulk-download images by username or model version ID into clean, flat folders
Danbooru Toolkit + Auto-Tagger — tag lookup, prompt cleanup and local ONNX image auto-tagging, fully offline
AI Captioner — caption your images with a local Vision Language Model
Prompt Engineer — generate, rewrite and convert prompts with LLM assistance and ready-made presets
Cropper, Overlay & Amateur Photo Studio — smart aspect-ratio cropping, watermarks and photo-realistic filters
Meta tools — copy and transfer metadata between images
The Full edition is for members. Same codebase, every module unlocked, free updates.
👉 Get CyberHub Full on Whop: https://whop.com/cyberdelia-ai-lab
Description
Update from the original Lite 1.0 release.
Added
Added changelog, license and third-party notices to the Lite release.
Added GitHub/manual support files.
Added optional Gallery accordion mode: close other folder branches when opening one.
Added ZIP import support for future update/module packages.
Improved
Gallery now hides folders that contain no images and no image-containing subfolders.
Gallery restores the active folder tree when returning from another module.
Faster folder-tree filtering for large libraries.
Viewer and Gallery now share improved metadata parsing.
Improved ComfyUI prompt extraction; raw workflow JSON is no longer shown as prompt when a clean prompt can be extracted.
No re-index needed for metadata fixes. Refresh/restart CyberHub after updating.
CyberHub Lite is now also available on GitHub:
https://github.com/cyberdeliaAI/CyberHub-Lite
FAQ
Comments (13)
Thanks, this is a great tool. When you add a folder in Settings accidently, then remove it in Settings later on, it does not remove that folder from the gallery view? How do you remove old folders from the gallery? Thanks!
Thanks! After removing a folder in Settings, restart CyberHub and run:
Settings → Maintenance → Rebuild index
That will rescan the configured folders and prune folders/images that no longer exist in the active Gallery roots.
If the old folder still appears after that, use:
Settings → Maintenance → Rebuild search
@Cyberdelia Ahh, ok. Thank you!
You know, I was just looking for something like this ^^
Probably 100k+ images later, & it becomes a bit of a nightmare trying to sort/search for things haha.
Just need to find the time to sort them all now :/
Congrats on the release :)
I’m working with 395k+ images (a lot of them downloaded with the Civitai grabber), and it runs incredibly fast. There are still a few small optimizations I’d like to add, but most of them are purely personal preferences.
The nice thing is that it’s modular and has no impact on speed. The Lite version is just as fast as the Full version. For me, it’s extremely important that it stays user-friendly.
For example I pushed a small update today that makes it clearer for users where the module settings are located. It uses an accordion system, where you had to click an icon. That wasn’t clear enough, so now it’s a proper Settings button instead.
It’s a small change, but important for usability. That’s basically what the last few months have been about: testing, testing, tweaking -> and then finding even more bugs :)
@Cyberdelia Sometimes I look at all my images...... & I think "Will I ever even look at some of these images again? How long will it take to even just look at them all at a few seconds intervals.....". I have a ton of probably garbage (& gold) images I haven't really even seen yet....lol. I'd just leave the thing thing running a few hours spamming out images, then be too tired to check them after \_ (ツ)_/ ̄ - I'm a terrible hoarder though lol.
Sometimes I think "Gee, I wish AI was smart enough to just sort them all for me; intelligently gauge metrics for aesthetics, & do it all for me.....", but then there would be really no point for humans to even be left in the mix generating images in the first place at that point.... lol. Anyway, I'm totes rambling. I hope all is going well for you :)
PS - What are your thoughts on Krea 2? I'm really liking it so far.
Can we just import our favorites prompts as a wildcard (.txt) file?
Yes, CyberHub Lite already has this in the Library workflow.
You can save favorite prompts into the Library and export them as a prompt library ZIP. For wildcard-style use, the prompts can be turned into a plain .txt wildcard file, one prompt per line.
@Cyberdelia Maybe be i missed something, when i do the zip thing, i have a .json file, and a folder with .png and thumbs in .jpg. But no matter i will just extract the prompts from the .json. Thanks great little hub!
@Cyberdelia Hi, i tried your lite version, nice job. I'll on my way to take the pro i think, but noticed that in the lite version, there was no delete button (for a picture, in the gallery or full screen view) or delete key on keyboard was not working. but it's in the code after investigating so i added it temporary to the lite app.
I just wanted to know that the delete button is present in the pro version and works well in batch (like clicking on one file and shift-click for quick multiple selection to delete the files ?). Possibility to make suggestions too in case something is not there and could be useful (i'm hand disabled, so any repetitive task can be ... difficult) on a 250.000 pictures gallery :D ?
I would prefer to not touch the code of the pro. (if notn i'll stay on the lite version, but it will break after each fix or update. don't want to mess with that.
for example, I noticed some issues like browsing the gallery with the keyboard. using up and down arrow act like left and right. is it planned to be fixed ?
P.S : your CyberReality models are my favorites. i don't use anything else. Thanks for that !
Thanks for reporting this. Lite and Full use the same Gallery module, so delete support is available in both.
You were right that it was not clear enough in the Lite UI. I’ve made a Gallery hotfix:
- added a visible delete button in the metadata panel
- added a delete button in fullscreen view
- batch delete works with Ctrl/Cmd-click, Shift-click range selection, Ctrl/Cmd+A for current page, then Delete
- fixed keyboard navigation so Up/Down now moves by grid row instead of acting like Left/Right
Files are moved to the system trash, not permanently deleted.
This will be included in the next update (Github/Discord and Whop), so you should not need to patch the Pro code yourself.
@Cyberdelia Thanks ! very kind ! you have a new subscriber ! thx !
(i sent you a PM on Whop for two additionnal fix (sorry ;) )