Linux Magazine discusses Tellico in their September 2026 issue, in an article titled Let’s Collect, which covers Tellico, Recoll, Asunder, and Picard, among others.
In this article we’re looking at Linux applications that you may want to try out if you already have a collection of physical books, ebooks, CDs, or other media, or are just starting to collect. You can create a catalog that stores metadata of your collection items, index ebooks to make their content searchable, and rip CDs so that you can play them on the computer, too.
The author, Hans-Georg Eßer, favorably mentions saving separate collection files for each type (books, coins, discs, etc.) which is nice. He does directly mention the Internet Search dialog, so I’m glad to see that the UI adjustments were effective. He even goes as far as showing fetch results from three different sources in the screenshot! The capability to drag an image into the Entry Editor was noted, which I appreciate. An extended section covered importing from CSV, which does seem to be functionality that just about every user needs at some point. His explanation of the process is much better than mine.
One of the gotchas that the article mentions is the .tc file extension was not automatically added to the saved file name. I suspect the author might not have been using the Plasma-desktop, or at least, not the KDE file integration, since the save dialog is supposed to have an option to do just that. So for the next release, I’ll automatically append .tc if there is no extension selected. That issue has popped up in other reviews, too.
Linux Magazine has mentioned Tellico a few other time, including June 2025 and as far back as August 2005.