UrDatabase

Call no. UD·791.43 Format Desktop Platform macOS & Windows Loan Free

Your films,finally filed.

UrDatabase reads the folder your films already live in and writes a card for each one — poster, cast, director, genre, rating, filled in for you. Everything stays on your machine, in one SQLite file you can open yourself.

Finding the latest release…

Three cards in the drawer

One per machine

If you are not sure which Mac you have, open the menu and choose About This Mac: an Apple silicon machine says Chip Apple M-something, an older one says Processor Intel.

osx-arm64

Apple silicon

Mac with an M1, M2, M3 or M4 · macOS 12 or later

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Intel Mac

Mac made before late 2020 · macOS 12 or later

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win-x64

Windows

Windows 10 or later · 64-bit

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The first time you open it

First launch

What each operating system does the first time, and what to do about it.

macOS — drag it to Applications

  1. Open the .dmg you downloaded.
  2. Drag UrDatabase into the Applications folder beside it.
  3. Open it from Applications.

Releases before 0.2.1 shipped a bare UrDatabase.App executable in a zip, ad-hoc signed. macOS kills those on launch — no dialog, no error, nothing in the interface. Clearing the quarantine flag with xattr, which this page used to tell you to do, does not change it: macOS is refusing the signature, not the flag. If you have one of those builds, take a newer one.

Windows — “Windows protected your PC”

SmartScreen shows this for any program it has not seen many people run before. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

It is a reputation check rather than a virus scan, so it says nothing about the file except that it is new. If you would rather check the file itself, every release lists a SHA-256 for each download in SHA256SUMS.txt on its release page.

What it actually does

Subject tracings

A desktop application, not a service. Nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it keeps working with the network off — it only reaches out to fetch metadata for a film it has not seen before.

  • Scans the folder you already have

    Point it at your films and it reads the filenames, works out what each one is and looks the rest up.

  • Posters, cast and crew

    Artwork, synopses, genres, directors and cast come from TMDB; ratings come from OMDb.

  • Browse by genre, year or person

    The catalogue is the point. Wander it by whatever you happen to be in the mood for.

  • One SQLite file

    Your catalogue is a plain database file on your own disk. Copy it, back it up, or query it yourself.