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BeeRef – a free opens-source simple reference image viewer

102 points| app4soft | 3 years ago |beeref.org | reply

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[+] app4soft|3 years ago|reply
BeeRef is an alternative clone of proprietary PureRef.[0]

Sadly, both PureRef and BeeRef actually are unmaintained.

But for BeeRef there is at least one active fork[1] that still is maintained.[2,3]

[0] https://alternativeto.net/software/beeref/

[1] https://github.com/mini-ninja-64/beeref

[2] https://github.com/rbreu/beeref/issues/62#issuecomment-14476...

[3] https://github.com/rbreu/beeref/issues/61#issuecomment-14490...

[+] vadansky|3 years ago|reply
I've been using PureRef for years now and it's pretty much done, so I'm not too worried it's not being maintained.
[+] rebuilder|3 years ago|reply
Here’s a seemingly underserved niche - a cross-platform reference board that works on desktop as well as Android and iOS, and syncs your boards across devices.
[+] sitkack|3 years ago|reply
Applications should arguably form a swarm over a PAN and use an OT/CRDT to be kept in sync with each other. The device boundary needs to disappear completely.
[+] speedgoose|3 years ago|reply
Something like Miro?
[+] tomcam|3 years ago|reply
Not a graphic artist--does reference board describe what BeeRef does?
[+] jmaselbas|3 years ago|reply
I made another simple clone[1] of pureref mainly has an exercise to learn X11, however I don't really use it that often.

[1] https://github.com/jmaselbas/sref

[+] app4soft|3 years ago|reply
Looks nice! I really like lightweight X11-based apps.

Has You seen AzPainter[0] image editor app? Latest AzPainter v3.x has really nice own modern looking X11-based `mlk`[1] widget toolkit and there are many apps built with it.

I maintain(-ed) AzPainter v2.x community repo[2] (for packaging, l10n, wiki), that was based on its older `mlib`[3] toolkit.

[0] https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter

[1] https://gitlab.com/azelpg/azpainter/-/tree/master/mlk

[2] http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/soft/index.html

[3] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter

[4] https://github.com/Symbian9/azpainter/tree/master/mlib

[+] dfrankle|3 years ago|reply
What makes BeeRef unique compared to PureRef? What features does it offer that PureRef doesn't?
[+] gorb314|3 years ago|reply
Not a feature, but an advantage: From what I can tell (I have only used PureRef so far) is that BeeRef has a open file format. For someone with their own image tagging system, it is hard for me to export an image query to PureRef. Having an open file format would make that easy.
[+] app4soft|3 years ago|reply
BeeRef offers you source code, so you would be able to modify and extend it with the knowledge of Python and PyQt6.

PureRef offers you just a blob as is.

[+] llanowarelves|3 years ago|reply
Good question, I'm wondering the the other way around.
[+] zzzmarcus|3 years ago|reply
I've never used BeeRef or PureRef but if you're on the latest version of OS X and don't need cross platform compatibility, Apple's new app Freeform seems to overlap in functionality with Bee/PureRef quite a bit.