Mare is a web-based archive tool that gathers your media from across the internet into one organized space, automatically enriching each saved item with metadata to make it easier to find and understand.
What is Mare?
Mare is a personal media archive that pulls together your favorite images, book covers, film stills, album art, and other visual references from platforms like Arena, Goodreads, Instagram, Letterboxd, Pinterest, Spotify, and local uploads. It takes your scattered media as input and produces a browsable, enriched gallery where each item is automatically tagged with contextual metadata such as artist, year, movement, and descriptive tags. The service runs in a web browser and is built by the team behind mare.run.
Key Features
- Multi-platform aggregation — Import media from Arena, Goodreads, Instagram, Letterboxd, Pinterest, Spotify, and your own local uploads, all into a single archive.
- Automatic metadata enrichment — Each saved item is analyzed to extract structured fields: title, artist, year, art movement, description, and custom tags (as seen with the "No Ghost Just a Shell" example).
- Visual gallery browsing — View your entire collection as a scrollable grid of thumbnails, with the option to click through for full detail.
- Tag-based organization — Items are tagged (e.g., "Non-human Agency", "Collective Authorship") so you can filter and find related references quickly.
- Evolving archive — As you add more media, the library grows and adapts, helping you discover connections between items across different source platforms.
Who is it for?
- Designers and creative professionals who collect inspiration from Pinterest boards, Instagram saves, and Spotify album art, and need a single searchable reference library.
- Researchers and curators tracking visual culture across film, architecture, and new media — for example, organizing Letterboxd stills alongside Goodreads book covers and local PDFs.
- Students of art and design history who want to build a personal collection of canonical works (Superstudio, Dieter Rams, Björk) with automatic contextual metadata like movement and year.
What can you do with Mare?
- Mood board aggregation: Pull together a reference board from Pinterest, Instagram, and Arena into one view, enriched with artist names and tags for quick searching.
- Media research organization: Save film stills from Letterboxd (e.g., Stalker, Arrival) alongside critical texts from your local files (e.g., Ways of Seeing, Cyborg Manifesto) and see them side by side with shared tags.
- Album art curation: Import album covers from Spotify (Burial, Björk, Aphex Twin) and add notes or related images from other platforms to build a visual music library.
FAQ
What platforms does Mare integrate with?
Mare currently supports importing media from Arena, Goodreads, Instagram, Letterboxd, Pinterest, and Spotify. You can also upload media directly from your local computer (the "Local" source shown on the site).
What kind of metadata does Mare automatically add?
Mare extracts title, artist, year, art movement, a short description, and custom tags for each item. For example, a saved image of Pierre Huyghe's No Ghost Just a Shell is automatically tagged with "Non-human Agency", "Collective Authorship", and "Digital Afterlife".
Is my data private?
Mare's privacy practices are described on its Privacy Policy page. The service handles media you choose to upload or import from connected accounts.
