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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.

> 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

Guess I should add news here: someone reverse engineered PureRef's file format[0] just few weeks ago[1,2]

[0] https://github.com/FyorUU/PureRef-format

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31lsz3JNtCU

[2] https://www.pureref.com/forum/read.php?2,2912

I saw this post too; I didn't mention it here because it is not an officially documented file format structure. An open and documented format is almost always a better alternative, IMHO.

Yes, I fully agree on this.

Hope, maintainer of BeeRef fork would continue its development.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983274#34983291

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.

Good question, I'm wondering the the other way around.