Linux Magazine Reviews Tellico

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.

Tellico 4.2 Released

Tellico 4.2 is available, with some improvements and bug fixes. This release now requires Qt6 (> 6.5) as well as KDE Frameworks 6. One notable behavior change is that when images are removed from the collection, the image files themselves are also removed from the collection data folder.

Users have provided substantial feedback in a number of areas to the mailing list recently, which is tremendously appreciated. I’m always glad to hear how Tellico is useful and how it can be better. Back up those data files!

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Linux Magazine Article

Linux Magazine included a nice article about Tellico in its June 2025 edition on Cool Linux Hacks. It has a nice description of adding items to one’s collection and how to search various sources online. A couple of screenshots are included that do a good job of showcasing the interface.

It even connects to the subsequent review of a barcode scanner to talk about using it together with Tellico. The distinction between using a webcam for scanning, where Tellico has to convert the image to a barcode, and a specific barcode scanner isn’t always clear to users. A scanner can essentially act as a keyboard, where the barcode comes across just as if someone were typing it in. For Tellico’s use, the webcam functionality isn’t well-tested since scanners are much more prevalent.