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Tagbox Desktop is currently in beta. We'd love your feedback - drop us a line at [email protected].
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Tagbox Desktop brings your Tagbox library straight into Finder (Mac) or File Explorer (Windows). Sync the workspaces or collections you care about, browse them like any other folder on your computer, and drag assets right into Photoshop, Canva, an email - anywhere you'd drop a local file. AI search and the same filters you use on the web come along for the ride.
Tagbox Desktop is available to users on all plans.
Grab the right installer for your machine from the Tagbox Desktop page.
On Mac, you'll see two options: Apple Silicon and Intel. Apple Silicon is for Macs with M1, M2, M3, or M4 chips (most Macs released since late 2020). Intel is for older Macs. If you're not sure, click the Apple menu in the top-left of your screen, choose About This Mac, and check the Chip or Processor line - anything that says "Apple" picks Apple Silicon, anything that says "Intel" picks Intel.
On Windows, there's a single installer. When you run it, you may see a SmartScreen warning along the lines of "Windows protected your PC." This is standard for new desktop apps that haven't yet built up a download history with Microsoft - the app is safe to install. Click More info, then Run anyway to continue.
When you launch Tagbox Desktop for the first time, it opens your browser and sends you to app.tagbox.io to sign in. Use the same email/password (or SSO, if your team uses it) you use for the web app. Once you're authenticated, the browser hands you back to the desktop app automatically - no copy-pasting tokens.
Tagbox Desktop doesn't pull your entire library down by default. You pick the workspaces or collections you want available locally, and only those get synced.
When you're choosing what to sync, the app shows you exactly how much storage each workspace or collection will take, and how much free space you have on your drive. That way you can fit the sync to your local capacity instead of guessing and running out of room halfway through.
You can also pick the destination folder - by default it goes to a Tagbox folder in your home directory, but you can put it anywhere (an external drive, a different partition, etc.).
You can change what's synced any time from the app settings.
Search and filter inside Tagbox Desktop work the same as in the web app. AI search and people-finding both work - you can search by what's in the image ("red dress on a beach"), by tags, by file type, by people, or any combination. See AI Visual Search for more on how visual search works.
A few of the more advanced web-only features (e.g. tag editing, version history) live on the web app rather than the desktop app - Desktop is focused on browsing, finding, and using files.