Real-size shelves for everything you collect

Drisiúr is a desktop app for the things you collect. I built it for my own books, records, comics and games. Everything is drawn at its real size, on shelves with proper light and shadow. There’s no account and nothing to sign in to.

It isn’t out yet. Leave your email and I’ll tell you when it is.

Coming to Windows and macOS, and Linux builds work too. I’ll send the odd note on how it’s going as well. Privacy

The name

drisiúr

Irish. Said “drish-oor”.

A dresser: the kitchen press with open shelves above, where a house keeps its good plates and its best things on show.

In an Irish kitchen, it’s where the good plates go on show.

Real objects

Everything at its real size

Most collection apps show a grid of covers, all the same size. In Drisiúr an LP is as big as an LP, a CD sits in its jewel case and a cassette in its case, so the shelf looks like the one at home.

Records

vinyl, in its sleeve

LPs and singles, each at its own size. In the record shop, pull one out of its crate.

CDs

jewel case

With a black tray or a clear one.

Cassettes

Norelco case

The standard case, at the standard size.

Comics

graded, slabbed

Graded comics stand in their slabs, with the label showing.

Books

hardback or paperback

Each one at its own height and thickness.

And the rest

most of the house

Films, games, board games, LEGO, Gundam, cameras, figures, bottles, cards, and categories you make yourself.

Finishes

Try the finishes

Each finish has its own light and shadow. Gallery is the default, in daylight. Birch & board has hard sun from the upper left. You can give each category its own.

A shelf of books in Drisiúr, finished with pale oak planks on soft plaster, in daylight.

The details

Click on something to open it

Whatever you pick gets a short green line on the plank in front of it. The panel beside the shelf shows the object, takes a tint from its cover, and has your copy underneath: its status, your rating, tags and who has it on loan.

Drisiúr with Fun Home by Alison Bechdel picked, and the details panel open beside the shelf: the book, its details, and Your copy with its status, rating, tags, series and lending. — The panel goes from the item, to your copy, to what you can do with it. Arrange on shelf is folded away at the bottom.

Arrange on shelf

This is folded away until you need it. You can change the size, move it, turn it on its base, change how its shadow falls and add a spotlight from the shelf above. Try the same eight sliders here.

Browse

The record shop

Your records stand in crates by letter. Scroll over a crate to flick through it, and click the front record to pull it out.

Drisiúr’s record shop: records filed by artist into wooden crates labelled with letters, the front record of each showing. — The record shop, filed by artist.

Lookups

Add things by barcode, ISBN or title

Drisiúr asks the services you’ve picked, one after another, and keeps what it finds. Each one is a plugin you can switch off, move up or down, or swap for another.

Open Library
Discogs
MusicBrainz
UPCitemdb
Numista
Google Books
TMDB
IGDB
BoardGameGeek
Comic Vine
Rebrickable
and the rest, or write your own

How it works

Your library is one file on your computer

It’s a single SQLite file, with the artwork in a folder beside it. Nothing leaves your computer except the lookups you ask for, and there’s no account to sign up for.

To use it on two computers, keep it in a folder that Dropbox, iCloud Drive or OneDrive syncs. You can also export it to CSV, JSON or a web page of your shelves.

title,creators,kind,year,publisher,pages,identifier,…,status,rating,format,…,on_loan_to
Pride and Prejudice,Jane Austen,book,2003,Penguin Classics,480,9780141439518,…,read,5,Paperback,…,
The Hobbit,J. R. R. Tolkien,book,,,,,…,read,5,Paperback,…,Deirdre
Teenage Kicks,The Undertones,music,1978,Good Vibrations,,,…,unread,,7-inch single,…,
Chess,,boardgame,,,,,…,read,4,,…,
Live and Dangerous,Thin Lizzy,music,1978,,,,…,read,5,Double LP,…,

[
  {
    "kind": "book",
    "title": "Pride and Prejudice",
    "creators": ["Jane Austen"],
    "year": 2003,
    "identifier": "9780141439518",
    "publisher": "Penguin Classics",
    "rating": 5,
    "height_cm": 19.8,
    "width_cm": 12.9,
    "format": "Paperback",
    …
  }
]

shelfware-backup-2026-10-18-0930.zip
├─ library.sqlite          every item
├─ settings.json
├─ categories.json         categories of your own
├─ plugin-state.json
├─ plugins/
└─ covers/                 every cover, cached

Examples. The CSV is cut down to fit; the real one has 22 columns.

No streaming links

Drisiúr doesn’t link out to streaming services. It’s about the copy on your shelf.

Importing

Coming from Delicious Library

Delicious Library was discontinued in 2024 and its lookups stopped working. Export your library as Delimited Text and open it in Drisiúr. Titles, creators, ratings, notes, series, status and loans all come across, and Drisiúr fetches the artwork again.

Goodreads, StoryGraph, card collections and spreadsheets import the same way.

Moving from Delicious Library has a page of its own.

What it doesn’t do

A phone app

Not yet. Your library is an open file, so you won’t be stuck with it either way.

Streaming links

It doesn’t link out to streaming services.

A cloud, or an account

Your library stays on your computer, or in a synced folder you choose.

Where your library lives

Most collection apps keep your library on their servers, behind an account. Here’s how some of them compare.

Checked October 2026.
App	What it is	Where your library lives
Libib	Web and mobile cataloguer	Their cloud, with an account
CLZ Books, Music, Movies, Games	One mobile and web app, and one subscription, per kind of thing	CLZ Cloud, with an account
CLZ desktop	Windows and Mac cataloguer, no longer sold to new users	On your disk
Delicious Library 3	Mac cataloguer, discontinued in November 2024; its lookups no longer work	On your disk
Memento Database	General-purpose database with templates	Their cloud, for synced libraries
Data Crow	Free, open-source desktop cataloguer	On your disk
Drisiúr	Real-size shelves for the whole house	On your disk, or a folder you share

Questions

Something else? Write to hello@drisiur.app.

How do you say it?

“Drish-oor”, near enough. It’s the Irish for a dresser, the kitchen press where a house keeps its good things on show.

What does it run on?

Windows and macOS. Linux builds work too.

Where is my data kept?

On your own computer: the library is one SQLite file, with its covers, settings and plugins in the folder beside it. There’s no account and no cloud. To use it on two computers, keep it in a folder Dropbox, iCloud Drive or OneDrive keeps in step.

Does it need an internet connection?

Only for the lookups you ask for: the details of what you add, and the covers they point to. Everything else works offline.

Can I bring my collection from another app?

Yes. Drisiúr reads Delicious Library’s Delimited Text export, Goodreads, StoryGraph, card collections and plain spreadsheets.

Why are there no “listen on” links?

Drisiúr is about the copy you own, so it doesn’t link out to streaming services.

Is there a phone app?

Not yet. Your library is an open SQLite file with CSV and JSON exports, so it won’t be stuck either way.

What if you stop making it?

The app keeps working; nothing phones home. Your library is a file any SQLite tool can open, and Drisiúr is MIT-licensed.

Follow along

I’ll send the odd update on how it’s going, and one when it’s ready.