What it is
Reddit only shows the last 1,000 things you have saved (posts and comments together). Your account data export, however, holds a full inventory of everything you have ever saved.
Stargazer turns that export into a visual gallery you can actually comb through. Drop in your CSV and scroll your whole history as images, clips and cards, then filter it, favourite the keepers, unsave the rest, and export the cleaned-up list again whenever you like.
What you can do
Browse
- Three layouts: Masonry (best for pictures and clips), Grid (equal squares) and List (compact rows with a small thumbnail, easiest for scanning text posts, which List shows by default; Masonry and Grid keep them hidden unless you switch Show text posts on). Choose a different layout for each list; List view also lets you pick 1, 2, 3 or Auto columns.
- Card info & controls: keep tiles media-only (Collapsed, where a tap on a tile or its small handle opens that card's title, Open post and Comments buttons, NSFW, star, bookmark, full-screen and player controls), let them rise on hover or focus, or show them always. Double tap a clip to play or pause it.
- A built-in viewer for images, galleries, videos, YouTube and RedGifs, with previous/next post navigation (arrow keys, swipe or buttons).
- Search titles, subreddits and authors (type
r/subreddit1+subreddit2 etc, to see several subreddits combined); sort by hot, newest, oldest, most comments, highest score or subreddit; limit by time range.
- Light and dark themes, adjustable tile size (plus a Full width button for big tiles across the whole window), and a layout that adapts to phones.
Filter
- By subreddit, media type (image, GIF, video, gallery, link, text post, removed, recovered) and favourites.
- NSFW handling you control: Hide, Blur, Show or Only. The automatic guess can be overridden on any post with one tap.
Curate
- Star your favourites.
- Unsave posts with Undo, or use Bulk Actions to star, mark NSFW or delete many at once.
- Remove dead posts in one step: clear out removed or deleted posts and media that no longer loads (you are asked first, and can export a backup).
Recover
- Posts that were removed from Reddit are looked up in public archives (Arctic Shift, PullPush and the Wayback Machine), so titles, images and context can be brought back where an archive has them.
Keep your data portable
- Everything lives in a plain CSV. Open, Merge and Export it any time. Merging is safe: the newer change wins, and a post you deleted is never brought back by an older copy.
A look around
Quick start
- Get your Reddit data. Request your data at reddit.com/settings/data-request. Reddit prepares it and sends you a download link, which can take a while. Inside is your saved posts CSV.
- Open Stargazer at tulosi.github.io/stargazer (or the standalone page).
- Open your CSV with the Source button, or drag it onto the page. Previews start loading as you scroll. Still waiting on Reddit? Try sample posts on the first screen opens a small invented list so you can look around.
Newer export later? Use Merge CSV to fold it into your existing list without losing your stars, deletions or NSFW marks.
Use it entirely on your own computer
Yes, no account and no server of mine are involved:
- Your list is stored in your browser (and, in Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers, can be linked to a CSV file on your disk so every change is written straight back to it).
- The page is a single file with no build step, and it has no analytics or tracking. It runs fine opened straight from disk (
file://).
- Accounts are optional. Without one, nothing about your list is ever uploaded to anything I run.
What "local" does and does not mean:
- Thumbnails and clips are fetched by your browser from Reddit and the usual media hosts (
i.redd.it, preview.redd.it, Imgur, RedGifs, YouTube), so you need an internet connection to see previews. The list itself, your filters and your edits work offline.
- Recovering removed posts sends the post's ID to the public archives listed above, and RedGifs clips are looked up on RedGifs. Nothing else about you is sent.
- Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. Scripts are never loaded from third parties.
Download the standalone page
Prefer to keep a copy that does not depend on any website? Download stargazer.zip, unzip it anywhere and double-click stargazer.html to open it in your browser. It is the exact same app as the hosted site, with no personal data in it, and it starts empty. With no account settings present, the sign-in section is simply hidden.
The hosted site updates automatically; a downloaded copy is a snapshot, so download it again when you want new features.
Optional: sync across devices with an account
If you would rather have the same list on your phone and your computer, you can create a free account from the Source panel and your list syncs between devices. Saving, starring and deleting sync automatically, edits made offline upload when you reconnect, Sign out can wipe the list from that browser (handy on shared computers), and Sign out other devices ends every other session if a phone or computer goes missing. It is entirely optional; everything above works without it.
Want to run your own copy with your own account system? See the self-hosting guide.
FAQ
Is it free? Yes. There is no sign-up, no ad and no paid tier.
Does it change my Reddit account? No. Stargazer never logs in to Reddit. Unsaving a post removes it from your Stargazer list only; your saved posts on Reddit are untouched.
Why do some previews say "not loaded" or "removed"? The post was deleted or removed, the media host is down, or a site is rate limiting. Stargazer retries gently and pauses on bursts of failures instead of hammering anyone. Removed posts are looked up in the archives, and where none has a copy it says so.
Why is Reddit's own "hot" feed not available? Browsers are not allowed to read it from a web page, so Subreddit mode uses an archive-based approximation. If you want the real thing, tools/hot_relay.py is a small relay you can run on your own computer.
Which browsers work? Any current desktop or phone browser should. Linking a CSV file on disk needs a Chromium browser such as Chrome or Edge; elsewhere the list is kept in the browser's own storage and you export a CSV for backups.
Where is my data? In your browser's storage on your device (plus your CSV, if you linked one). Clearing site data removes it, so export a CSV now and then.
For developers
Stargazer is one HTML file (site/index.html) with no dependencies and no build step. Tests are Playwright scripts in tests/ that load the page with the network mocked, for example python tests/layout_test.py. Project conventions live in CLAUDE.md. Issues and suggestions are welcome.
