Hoard Coming soon
A visual library for Mac

Save everything. Find anything. Own all of it.

Hoard keeps the pictures, videos and pages you save from the web in a folder on your Mac, and finds them again by word, colour or collection. No cloud. No subscription. No one else's server.

Coming soon for Mac See it work Price TBA · Apple Silicon · macOS 14 or later
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Capture

Two clicks from “oh, that’s nice” to saved.

Right-click any image, video or page in Chrome and send it to Hoard, or straight into a collection. Hoard fetches the full-size original rather than the copy the page was showing, pulls out its colours, notes where it came from, and gets out of your way.

  • Chrome extension
  • Menu bar drop
  • Paste a web address
  • Drag from Finder
The menu bar takes a drop from anywhere. It lands in the Inbox until you have a minute.

Nothing to organise on the way in.

Everything lands in the Inbox unless you say otherwise. A file you already have is recognised and not copied twice. A dead link is refused rather than saved as a picture of its own error page.

Colour search

Remember the colour, not the filename.

Type a hex into search, or press a swatch on anything you have saved. Hoard ranks the whole library by how near each picture comes, measured in CIEDE2000, the way eyes judge colour rather than the way hex codes add up.

#e8602c81 results
#2f6fd664 results
#447af360 results
Organise

Sort it when you have a minute.

Drag a box. File the lot.

Search, drag a box round what you want and move it into a collection. One that does not exist yet is made on the way. A picture can live in as many collections as it belongs in.

Then look properly.

Open anything full size. ←→ walk the library, I clears the panel away so the picture gets the room, Esc puts it back where it came from.

Local-first

It’s a folder. That’s the whole trick.

Your library is plain files and plain JSON on your Mac. Open it in Finder. Back it up however you like. Keep it on your internal drive, an external SSD or anywhere else a folder can live. Delete Hoard tomorrow and you still have everything.

  • Hoard Library
  • library.json
  • tags.json
  • collections
  • 01M306HANKFXS94HKXQ8BC8MS2.json
  • items
  • 01M2TMK6NTEK6F9YMEQV6HM0G2
  • original.pngyours, untouched
  • item.jsonwhat Hoard knows
  • thumb-256.webp
Made for the Mac

Feels like it belongs there.

Hoard in its light theme
Light and dark, with spacing, corners and background tone to taste.
The Hoard menu bar drop window
The menu bar window, for a drop without switching apps.
  • Filters that narrowType, date, size, length, tag, collection and where it came from.
  • Sorted your wayAdded, modified, name, size, dimensions, or a shuffle that stays put.
  • Six zoom stopsFrom 80px cells for scanning to 800px for studying one thing.
  • Videos that previewA poster frame, and a scrub through the clip as you hover.
  • Links kept wholeA saved page keeps its picture and a capture of how it actually looked.
  • A real TrashDeleting is soft. Things go back exactly as they were.

Price and questions

Planned priceTBA
  • One licence for up to three Macs
  • A year of updates, and keep the version you have for good
  • Seven days free to try everything
  • No subscription, now or later

Hoard is not on sale yet. Apple Silicon Macs, macOS 14 or later.

Is Hoard a subscription?

No. You buy it once.

Where is my stuff?

In a folder on your Mac, wherever you put it. Hoard never uploads your library anywhere.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Everything except saving from the web and opening links, which need the web.

What can I save?

Images, GIFs, videos, and web pages as links with a preview and a capture of the page.

Can I get my stuff out?

It was never in. It is files in a folder. Open the folder.

Does it run on an Intel Mac?

No. Hoard is built for Apple Silicon only, which keeps it smaller and faster.

Privacy

Updated 23 September 2026

The short version: Hoard does not collect anything. Your library stays on your Mac. There is no account, no analytics and no tracking, in the app, the Chrome extension or on this website.

What stays on your Mac

Your library is a folder of your own files, with a small JSON file beside each one describing it. Hoard also keeps a search index and your preferences in its Application Support folder on your Mac. None of it is ever sent to us. We never see what you save, what you search for or how you use Hoard.

Hoard contains no analytics, no crash reporting and no telemetry of any kind.

When Hoard goes online

Only when you ask it to:

If you keep your library in iCloud Drive, Dropbox or a similar service, that service stores and syncs the files under its own privacy terms. Hoard does not sync anything itself.

The Chrome extension

The extension talks only to Hoard running on your own Mac, at 127.0.0.1. It reads a web page only at the moment you ask it to save from that page. It keeps a few things in Chrome's storage on your computer: the pairing with your copy of Hoard, the collections you used recently, any saves waiting for Hoard to be opened, and the last thing that went wrong. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.

The permissions it asks for, and why:

This website

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics and has no forms. Its fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address and browser details when you visit. Google's handling of that is covered by the Google Privacy Policy.

When Hoard goes on sale

Hoard is not on sale yet. When it is, purchases will be handled by Lemon Squeezy, who will collect your name, email address, payment details and billing country to take payment and handle tax, under the Lemon Squeezy Privacy Policy. To check your licence against its three-Mac limit, Hoard will send your licence key and an identifier for each Mac it is activated on. This section will be updated with the details before anything is sold.

Your rights

Because Hoard does not collect personal information from using the app, there is generally nothing held about you to access or delete. Once purchases begin, you can ask to see, correct or delete the purchase records we hold, in line with the Australian Privacy Principles.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions go to john[at]johnkappa[dot]com.

Terms

Updated 23 September 2026

Hoard is not on sale yet. These terms describe how it will be licensed when it is, and they apply to any preview copy you are given before then.

Who these terms are with

Hoard is made by John Kappa, referred to here as “we”. By installing or using Hoard you agree to these terms.

Your licence

The free trial

You can try everything in Hoard free for seven days. After that you will need a licence to keep adding to your library. Your library stays yours either way: it is a folder of your own files, and nothing about the trial ending touches it.

Preview copies

A preview copy given to you before launch is provided for testing, may stop working after a set date, and may contain mistakes. Please do not pass it on.

Refunds

If Hoard is not for you, ask for a refund within 14 days of buying and you will get one, no questions asked. This is on top of your rights under the Australian Consumer Law, not instead of them.

Your library and what you save

Everything you save with Hoard stays yours, and we claim no rights over any of it. You are responsible for what you save and how you use it, including respecting other people's copyright. Saving something with Hoard does not give you any rights to it.

Fair use of the licence

Please do not share or publish licence keys, resell Hoard, or work around its licence checks. Nothing here limits anything the law allows you to do regardless.

The Chrome extension

The Hoard extension for Chrome is free and works only alongside Hoard on your Mac. These terms apply to it too.

Australian Consumer Law

Our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or changes those guarantees, or any other right you have that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Limits

Apart from those guarantees, and to the extent the law allows, Hoard is provided as it is, and we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss. Hoard never moves or deletes your original files, except when you empty its Trash, but keep a backup of anything you cannot replace, as with any software. Where our liability can be limited, it is limited to supplying Hoard again or refunding what you paid for it.

Ending

You can stop using Hoard whenever you like. If these terms are seriously breached, the licence can be ended. Either way, your library remains yours.

Changes, law and contact

If these terms change, the new version will be posted here with a new date, and it will not take away a licence you have already bought. These terms are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia. Questions go to john[at]johnkappa[dot]com.