CartDex

YOUR ROM LIBRARY. SELF-HOSTED. INDEXED.

A personal ROM indexer and preservation tracker for people who actually keep their games.

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WHAT IS CARTDEX

CartDex is a self-hosted ROM library indexer I built because every other option either required an account, phoned home, or tried to be a cloud service. This runs on your hardware. It reads your files. It reports to you.

It indexes your ROMs against No-Intro and Redump DAT files, tracks completion across systems, and gives you a clean dashboard to browse what you actually have. No subscription. No telemetry. No cloud sync that owns your library.

I maintain this as a hobby project. It is open source and does exactly what it says. If that sounds useful, the source is on GitHub.

SYSTEMS
32+
consoles and handhelds
DAT MATCHING
NO-INTRO REDUMP
COMPLETION
per-system tracking
PROJECT STATUS
CARTDEX Self-hosted ROM indexer, active development, source on GitHub
CARTCRATE Steam Deck companion app, in development
MORE Additional tools for preservationists, planned
CartCrate

A companion app for Steam Deck. Browse your CartDex library, launch ROMs, and track your collection from the couch. Paired with CartDex by design. Not available yet.