Your library lives on your machine, not someone else's server
AssetHoard is how software used to be. You download it, you own it, and your assets stay exactly where you put them. No account to create, no cloud to trust, no subscription quietly renewing in the background.
You own it
One purchase, your copy. No login, no plan, no permission needed to open your own asset library.
Local only
Your assets never leave your computer. AssetHoard indexes the files already on your disk and keeps them there.
Offline by default
Work on a plane, in a cabin, behind a firewall. The only requirement is a licence check every 30 days.
Remember when software was just yours?
You bought it, it ran on your machine, and it kept working whether or not a company decided it should. Somewhere along the way that became the exception. AssetHoard brings it back.
The way it should be
- You buy a licence and own your copy
- Your files stay on your disk
- It opens whether you are online or not
- Updates keep coming, no extra fee
- Nobody is mining your library
The way it usually goes
- Create an account just to start
- Your data lives on someone else's server
- No connection, no app
- Pay monthly or lose access
- Your usage is the product
What local-first actually means here
Not a marketing label. A set of concrete promises about how AssetHoard treats you and your work.
No account, ever
There is no sign-up screen between you and your assets. No email to verify, no password to reset, no profile we hold over you. Install and go.
Your assets never leave your computer
AssetHoard reads and previews the files already on your disk. Nothing is uploaded, copied to the cloud, or synced to a server we run.
We do not store your library data
Your file names, tags, notes, and thumbnails stay with you. We keep no copy of your catalogue, because we never receive it in the first place.
One licence check every 30 days
The single time AssetHoard needs a server is a brief licence validation roughly once a month. Between checks, feel free to stay offline as long as you like.
Lifetime updates
We ship improvements regularly, and your licence includes all of them. No subscription, no upgrade tier, no paywall on the features you already paid for.
No lock-in
Your assets are plain files in your own folders. AssetHoard sits on top of them rather than swallowing them, so you are never trapped.
About that one license check
We believe in being straight with you, so here is exactly when AssetHoard talks to the license server and what it sends.
A licence check roughly every 30 days. That is it.
Only enough to confirm your licence is valid. Not your assets, not your library, not your file names.
Nothing. You can disconnect entirely and keep working without interruption.
AssetHoard keeps working and validates the next time you have a connection. You are never locked out mid-project. We'll give you 30 days to come back online, so that's ~60 days between required checks
Frequently asked questions
No. There is no sign-up, no email gate, no password to forget. You download AssetHoard, you open it, and your library is yours. We never see it.
On your computer, in folders you choose. AssetHoard indexes and previews your files in place. Nothing is uploaded, mirrored, or synced to a server we control.
Almost never. It reaches a server is a quick licence check every 30 days. Between those checks you can work completely offline, on a plane, in a bunker, wherever.
Nothing breaks. AssetHoard keeps working fully offline between licence checks. If you have been disconnected past the 30 day window, it will ask to validate the next time you have a connection. Your library and your work are never held hostage.
Your library data, file names, tags, notes, thumbnails, none of it leaves your machine. We run a licence check, and we collect some basic telemetry to help us improve AssetHoard. You can read exactly what that covers in our privacy policy.
Yes. A licence comes with lifetime updates. We ship improvements regularly and you get all of them, with no subscription and no upgrade tier to unlock.
Your assets are plain files in your own folders, exactly where they always were. AssetHoard sits on top of them, it does not lock them away in a proprietary vault. If we vanished tomorrow, your library would still be sitting on your disk.
Own your tools. Keep your assets. Stay offline.
Local-first, offline-capable, no subscription.