# sachinchoolur/lightgallery-desktop

A modern, electron and nodejs based image viewer for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Repository: https://github.com/sachinchoolur/lightgallery-desktop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lightgallery-desktop
Homepage: http://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightgallery-desktop/
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Topics: electron, image-viewer, animation, desktop, mac, windows, ubuntu
Last push: 2020-04-26T17:08:17+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3752, "days_push": 2320, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1001, forks 91 (observed 2026-09-03T02:15:17.597949+00:00)

## What it is
LightGallery Desktop is a cross-platform desktop image viewer built with Electron and Node.js. It offers animated slideshows, zoom, fullscreen, thumbnails, and 20+ transition animations for viewing jpg, png, gif, and webp images.

## Use cases
- view images on mac windows and linux
- desktop photo viewer with slideshow
- image viewer with zoom and fullscreen
- browse photos with animated transitions
- lightweight gallery app for desktop

## When to choose
- you want a modern, animated cross-platform image viewer
- you need slideshow, zoom, and keyboard navigation for local images
- you prefer an Electron-based viewer with customizable transitions

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained app - the last release was 2020
- you need a license-guaranteed project (no license is specified)
- you need video or raw image format support

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, gui, animation
- domain: desktop-applications, media, photography
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: image-viewer, gallery, slideshow, electron-app, lightgallery, desktop, macos, linux, electron

## Member repositories
- sachinchoolur/lightgallery-desktop (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:17.597949+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:14:02.194608+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sachinchoolur/lightgallery-desktop (fetched 2026-09-03T02:15:17.597949+00:00, sha 7e2d6d32efca)
  - homepage: http://sachinchoolur.github.io/lightgallery-desktop/ (fetched 2026-08-29T13:14:09.018093+00:00, sha 5ffed3fe3d2d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.