Design Taste vs Eagle

A curated catalog, not a reference manager.

Design Taste is 12,427+ hand-tagged design references — branding, editorial, posters, packaging, web — picked and rated by a human. Search by industry, mood, style, or palette from the web, Figma, or Claude Desktop.

They’re complementary, not competitors

Eagle is a desktop app for organizing reference images you already have. You drag in screenshots, downloads, and exports, then tag them and group them into folders. It’s good at being a library for stuff you collected yourself.

Design Taste is the catalog you reach for when you don’t already have the right reference. The picking, rating, and tagging is done for you, and the same library shows up in Figma and Claude Desktop without an export step. Plenty of designers use both: Eagle for their own archive, Design Taste for the shelf they didn’t build themselves.

At a glance

 Design TasteEagle
What it isA curated catalog of design references, hosted.A desktop app for organizing reference files locally.
Where the references come fromPicked, rated, and tagged by a human.You import them — screenshots, downloads, your own files.
TaggingIndustry, mood, style, and palette, set centrally.Tags and folders you set up yourself.
Where it runsWeb, Figma plugin, and Claude Desktop via MCP.Native desktop app on macOS and Windows.
Library size12,427+ references, shared across all users.Whatever you put into it.

Which one you want

If the problem is “I have hundreds of screenshots and I can’t find the one I need,” that’s Eagle’s job. If the problem is “I need a sage-and-cream wellness brand reference and I don’t have one yet,” that’s Design Taste’s.