Argus

Your asset libraries lie scattered across every drive, and Explorer is blind to them. Argus indexes them where they live — nothing copied, nothing sent to the cloud — and finally makes them visible, searchable, alive.

Images, 3D, audio, print files: everything is thumbnailed pixel-perfect, previewed and editable. And it starts in one second.

Everything opens, everything searches

• ~30 image formats — PNG, WEBP, AVIF, TIFF, DDS, QOI, SVG, PSD, TGA, ICO, BMP… plus animated GIF/APNG and Aseprite .ase, all pixel-perfect.
• 3D & printing — STL, OBJ, GLB, GLTF, PLY, DAE, 3MF, FBX, plus resin slices (.ctb / .cbddlp / .photon) and gcode, rendered right in the grid.
• Audio — waveform + duration for wav, ogg, mp3, flac, m4a, opus.
• Cross-drive search, instant, over 200,000+ files — names, paths and tags, with operators like ext: kind: tag: >10mo >512px since:.
• Tag & favorite anything — 6 themes, full keyboard navigation.
• Viewer with ×64 zoom, pan, fullscreen, slideshow and spritesheet playback.

Built for game & asset work

• Previews Windows can't — TGA, PSD, DDS, STL, resin slices, gcode: real thumbnails instead of blank icons.
• Palette extraction — pull the colors straight out of any sprite, click a swatch to copy the hex.
• Spritesheets — play the animation, then export every frame as its own PNG.
• Compare two images — side-by-side, curtain wipe or pixel difference, zoom & pan synced.
• Contact sheet — turn a selection into one labeled overview PNG.

Edit & convert, without leaving Argus

A full IrfanView-style editor, built in — and it always saves a COPY: your original is never touched.

• Rotate, flip, crop, resize, free rotation, zoom while editing.
• Brightness / contrast / saturation / hue / blur, B&W, sepia, sharpen.
• Effects: gamma, auto-contrast, emboss, edge-detect, posterize, pixelate, solarize, + RGB histogram.
• Annotate (brush, line, arrow, shapes, text), color picker, replace a color, undo/redo.
• PNG / JPG / WEBP conversion with batch rename; rename / move / recycle bin (reversible).

★ Argus Pro

The core of Argus is free and complete. The management layer — the part that saves hours on a real project — unlocks once, forever (one-time purchase, no subscription, offline key).

• Duplicates — content-based detection (not by name), reclaim gigabytes hidden across your packs.
• Stats — a dashboard of your whole collection: by type, by library, by extension.
• Export "Copy to…" — pull assets into your projects, the source never touched.
• Coming soon: collections, dominant-color filter, per-pack license tracking.

Your files, untouched

• 📍 Indexed in place — zero copy, zero move. Your folder tree stays exactly as you arranged it.
• 🔒 100% offline — the server listens locally (127.0.0.1) only. Nothing leaves your machine.
• 🗃️ Metadata in its own database — favorites and tags live in Argus, never injected into your files.
• ⚡ Light & instant — a single 24 MB exe, up in one second. No framework, no heavy install.

Installation

Portable — no installation. Unzip and run Argus.exe. Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit). Automatic updates via the itch.io app.