Civitai Browser
What it is
A Windows desktop app built with Tauri 2 and React 19 for browsing Civitai images that carry generation metadata and ComfyUI workflows, with a virtualized masonry gallery and native drag-and-drop into ComfyUI.
I built Civitai Browser, a Windows desktop app that helps AI artists explore Civitai's image library with the generation details included: models, LoRAs, prompts and embedded ComfyUI workflows. Find an image you like and drag it straight onto the ComfyUI canvas to load its workflow.
Result
Civitai Browser makes it faster to find AI-generated images and reuse their exact ComfyUI workflows, keeping the metadata intact from browse to canvas.
The problem
Civitai's web interface has no server-side filter for images that include a workflow, and no easy way to move an image into ComfyUI with its metadata intact. That slows down every "how was this made?" moment.
What it does
- A virtualized masonry and grid gallery with blurhash placeholders and smooth scrolling
- Filters for sort, period, NSFW level, username, model and version id, and base models
- A default Has workflow mode that filters client-side and fills pages smartly
- A detail panel with models, LoRAs, prompt, negative prompt and workflow JSON
- Native drag-out of the cached original PNG into ComfyUI, so embedded workflow metadata is preserved
- Downloads to disk, with an optional Civitai API token in Settings
- An update check on launch, plus manual checks from Settings
How it's built
- Tauri 2 with a Rust shell, React 19, TypeScript and Vite
- Tailwind CSS v4, TanStack Query and Zustand, with masonic for virtualized masonry
tauri-plugin-dragfor OS-level file drag into ComfyUItauri-plugin-updaterfor signed updates from GitHub Releases, plus a one-command release script that bumps versions, builds a signed NSIS installer and publishes the release
