Gridora Forge

Free Construction Photo Report Generator Drag. Drop. Label. Export to PDF. No installs · No uploads · 100% private in browser.

Live: www.gridora-forge.com

What it does

Gridora Forge turns jobsite photos into professional PDF photo reports in minutes. Built for construction workers, site inspectors, consultants, engineers, and anyone who needs to document a site with photos.

1. Drag and drop photos (or pick a folder)
2. Add titles and descriptions
3. Choose a layout
4. Export to PDF

Everything runs locally in your browser — no server, no accounts, no uploads.

Features

• Multiple layouts — 1-up, 2-up, 2×2, 2×3 grid
• Cover page — title, site address, author, date, notes, company logo
• Photo controls — drag-and-drop reorder, rotate, title + description per photo
• PDF settings — configurable margins, header/footer templates with {title}, {author}, {date}, {page}, {total_pages} tokens, page numbers
• HEIC/iPhone support — handles HEIC/HEIF from iOS cameras
• Deferred JPEG compression — full-resolution originals until export, then compressed for smaller PDFs
• Parallel processing — bounded concurrency for fast batch imports
• 100% client-side — Rust/WASM, no backend, photos never leave your device

Tech stack

• Rust + Leptos 0.8 CSR compiled to WebAssembly
• Trunk for build/dev tooling
• No backend — static site hosted on GitHub Pages

Local development

Prerequisites

rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
cargo install trunk --locked

Run

.\scripts\dev.ps1

Opens at http://localhost:8080/.

Production build

.\scripts\build.ps1

Outputs static site to dist/.

Hosting

The dist/ directory can be deployed to any static host. Currently served via GitHub Pages with a custom domain (www.gridora-forge.com).

License

MIT