DTM

A power-user companion app for Draw Things

Browse thousands of generated images · Extract & inspect metadata · Search with natural language

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Why DTM?

Draw Things is a powerful, local AI image generation app — but once you've generated hundreds or thousands of images across multiple projects, managing them becomes its own challenge. DTM fills the gaps:

• Can't remember which prompt produced that great result? DTM extracts and displays the full generation config from any Draw Things image — prompts, model, sampler, seed, guidance scale, and more.
• Projects scattered across folders and external drives? DTM indexes them all into a single, searchable library.
• Need to find images by prompt, model, or parameter? DTM offers full-text search with filters so you can query your entire creative history instantly.

🔍 Metadata Inspector

Drop or paste any Draw Things image to instantly view its full generation metadata:

• Prompts — positive and negative, ready to copy
• Generation config — model, sampler, steps, seed, guidance scale, dimensions, and every other parameter Draw Things embeds
• Multi-image support — load several images at once, pin the ones you want to keep
• One-click actions — copy image, save a copy, open the source folder

📂 Project Browser

A unified library across all your Draw Things projects:

• Watch folders — point DTM at your Draw Things data folder (or any folder) and it continuously indexes new images in the background
• Full-text search — find images by prompt keywords with stemming and prefix matching
• Structured filters — narrow results by model, sampler, seed, steps, dimensions, and more
• Detail overlay — select any image to view its full metadata and generation history
• External storage — index projects from external drives, network folders, or anywhere macOS can reach

Installation

Download (Recommended)

1. Grab the latest .dmg from GitHub Releases
2. Open the .dmg and drag DTM to your Applications folder
3. On first launch, macOS will block the app because it isn't signed with an Apple Developer certificate. To allow it:
   • Open System Settings → Privacy & Security
   • Scroll down to the Security section — you'll see a message about DTM being blocked
   • Click Open Anyway and confirm

Build from Source

Prerequisites: Node.js / npm, Rust, Xcode command line tools (xcode-select --install)

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Generate app icons
npm run gen:icons

# Build for current architecture
npm run build:mac

# Build Universal binary (Intel + Apple Silicon)
npm run build:universal

# Run in dev mode
npm run dev

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.

DTM uses FlatBuffer schema files from the drawthings-community repository, which is licensed under GPL-v3.