Deep AI search for every photo and every frame of video in any folder on macOS. Local-first — no accounts, no cloud, no uploads. Inference runs on your Mac.
What makes it different
- Search like you think — describe a memory in plain language; a local vision model does the rest.
- Video, down to the moment — scenes are segmented and embedded, so you land on the shot, not just the file.
- Text and dialogue too — OCR over visible text; exact spoken-line search via Whisper, each as its own mode.
- Your tabs, your prompts — save any query as a tab; Screenshots and Email tabs are toggleable.
- Self-maintaining library — watched folders auto-import, content hashes dedupe renames, and model switches re-embed in the background without blocking search.
- 100% private — your media never leaves the machine. Weights download once; everything after that is offline.
| Mode | Finds |
|---|---|
| Files | Whole photos/videos by meaning — vision rank with filename and phrase boosts |
| Scenes | Moments inside video — search a shot, jump to its timecode |
| OCR | Text visible in images and frames, matched literally (Tesseract; eng + 35 language toggles) |
| Dialogue | Exact spoken words in videos (Whisper), tiered exactness |
| LLMs (opt-in) | Local chat over the dialogue, OCR, and filenames your Mac already extracted — cited answers |
The easiest install is via Homebrew (Apple Silicon, macOS 12+). The tap's cask clears the macOS quarantine flag automatically on every install and upgrade, so the app launches with no manual Gatekeeper steps:
brew tap allenv0/scm
brew trust --cask allenv0/scm/scm
brew install --cask scmUpgrades:
brew upgrade --cask allenv0/scm/scmbun run dev # build the renderer bundle, then launch the Electron app
bun start # launch the Electron app without rebuilding
bun run build # just rebuild the renderer bundle into dist/