Reelio

The Windows video library that previews every clip on hover.

Your video stash, organized. Hover to preview any clip without playing it, color-tag and search in an instant, then drag straight into Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve. Built for video editors, videographers and anyone with a big local video library on Windows. 100% local, one-time payment.

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Reelio · app
Sip, relax, repeat
43 min 260 mo 10/08/2024
TESTED ON A DATA BASE OF 50 000+ clips iterative scans · stack-safe
100% local

Zero cloud · zero telemetry

Organize

The best way to stay organized

A WALK THROUGH

Every part of the app, in one shot.

Tabs, color tags, hover-previews, library stats, hover the dots to see what each piece does.

Reelio's gallery view on Windows: color-tag sidebar, browser-style tabs, folder clip counts and a grid of hover-scrub video thumbnails.
WHAT IT DOES

Three things, done well.

No bloat, no AI gimmicks. Just the parts of a video library that actually move work forward.

Color tags & search

Drag clips onto color tags, star your favorites, then find anything with instant search, everything flows smoothly, like a wave being ridden.

Reelio sidebar with color tags and a Favorites list for grouping video clips.

Drag into your editor

Drop straight into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or back to Explorer. OLE metadata is set so the clip lands with the right name in your bin.

Dragging a Reelio clip into an Adobe Premiere Pro timeline with its name and metadata intact.
TRY IT YOURSELF

This is how every clip looks in your library.

Three clips. Move your mouse over them. Watch them play. No clicks, no buffering, that's exactly what Reelio does in your library.

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WORKFLOW

Drag straight into your editor.

OLE metadata is wired up so your clip lands in it with the correct name, not 'Untitled.mp4' with a question mark.

Drop in it
Adobe Premiere Pro
name · duration · codec preserved
Drop in it
DaVinci Resolve
drops into the active bin
Drop in it
Windows Explorer
because old habits stick
FULL MENU

Everything Reelio packs.

A focused little tool, but every line below is built and shipping.

  • Hover-scrub previews · 2/3/8 frames adaptive
  • Smart thumbnails · 320×180 WebP, FFmpeg-baked
  • Folder tiles · 2×2 grid or custom folder.jpg
  • Color tags with full CRUD & drag-to-assign
  • Favorites with gold-star pinning
  • FTS5 search · 200 ms debounce
  • Prefix matching + AND tokens, bold highlights
  • Drag → Premiere / DaVinci / Explorer with OLE metadata
  • External player · default, VLC, MPC-HC, MPV auto-detect
  • Multi-libraries · per-library exclusion rules
  • Random videos, random folders, recently played
  • Light / Dark / System theme · hot-swap
  • Mica window · Windows 11 native chrome
  • Soft-delete 7 days for unplugged drives
  • 3 thumb quality levels · 120/160/240 px sprites
  • SQLite per library · move it freely
  • FFmpeg embedded · LGPL, decode only
  • Worker pool ≤ 2 · iterative, stack-safe scans
QUESTIONS

Stuff you'll ask anyway.

Does it really stay 100% local?

Yes. Zero cloud, zero telemetry, zero account. Everything sits in reelio/index.db on your computer.

Will it eat my CPU?

The FFmpeg worker pool is capped at 2 processes. Scans are iterative, not recursive, stack-safe on huge folder trees, and the UI never blocks.

What if I unplug my external drive?

Nothing, until you ask. Reelio never re-scans on its own, so as long as the drive stays plugged in your clips stay put. The library only changes when you manually trigger a re-scan: at that point Reelio adds any new files it finds at the watched path and removes anything it can no longer reach. Unplug the drive, then run a scan, and those clips disappear from the library. Your video files themselves are never touched.

Mac / Linux version?

Not yet. Reelio is WinUI 3, Windows-native.

How much?

One-time payment on the Microsoft Store. No subscription, ever.

PRICING

Ride the first 25 free.

Every feature, zero cost, up to 25 clips. Ready for the whole library? $24.99 once, unlimited forever.

FREE
$0

No card, no catch, just download.

  • The whole app, every feature, unlocked
  • Hover-scrub previews, color tags, instant search, drag into your editor
  • Up to 25 clips in your library
  • 100% local, no account, no cloud
Download free
GO INFINITE
UNLIMITED
$24.99one-time

Pay once on the Microsoft Store. No subscription, ever.

  • Everything in Free, plus…
  • Unlimited clips, the 25-clip cap, gone
  • One payment, yours for keeps
  • Same 100% local app, no strings
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Free and Unlimited are the same app, start free, upgrade in-app the moment you hit 25 clips.

Crack one open.

Reelio, one-time payment on the Microsoft Store. No subscription, no nonsense.

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