Search by describing what you see. Recognize faces. Find duplicates. Read text in screenshots. Searchy is a native photo manager with semantic search built in — entirely on-device, no cloud, no subscription.
CLIP encodes images and queries into the same embedding space. Search "dog on a beach" — it finds dogs on beaches, even if the file is IMG_4392.jpg.
Extracts text from screenshots, documents, signs. Hybrid mode blends semantic similarity with text matching — adjustable OCR weight for tuning relevance.
DeepFace with ArcFace detects and clusters faces automatically. Name people, pin favorites, merge duplicates, create face albums. Search by name.
Visual similarity scoring with adjustable threshold (85–99%). Auto-select smaller duplicates, preview before deleting, bulk cleanup.
⌘⇧Space summons a floating search window anywhere. Fully keyboard-navigable — ⌘1-9 to copy+paste, Ctrl+1-9 to clipboard, Enter to paste.
Select any photo to find visually similar ones across your library using CLIP embeddings. Great for finding variations or related shots.
Auto-index folders as new images appear. File watchers with prefix, suffix, regex, or contains filters. Incremental — only processes new files.
Index USB drives and external disks. Separate index per volume stored on the device. Search across volumes independently.
All processing on-device. No network requests after initial model download. CORS restricted to localhost, server binds to 127.0.0.1. Security audit.
Free, open source, private. The photo manager your Mac deserves.