Your image folder can do more than hold images

If you regularly save screenshots, reference images, comics, diagrams, or photos, you may know this feeling: the image you need is somewhere on your Mac, but finding it takes longer than using it.

That’s the problem I built DotPeek to solve.

DotPeek is a native Mac image explorer that helps you find, understand, and organize the images already on your computer—all without uploading them anywhere.

With DotPeek, you can:

• Find images by text, meaning, or visual similarity.

• Detect duplicates and keep the best copy.

• Extract or translate text directly from images.

• Cut out subjects as transparent PNGs.

• Listen to recognized or translated text.

• Work privately—everything stays on your Mac.

For example, imagine you are writing something and remember a screenshot from several months ago. You do not know its filename, but you remember that it mentioned “local image processing.” Instead of opening folders and checking thumbnails one by one, you can search for those words—or search by their meaning.

Or perhaps you downloaded the same illustration several times in different sizes. DotPeek groups the copies and can preselect which one to keep based on resolution, file size, or date.

The part that matters most to me is that this happens locally. DotPeek uses the intelligence already built into macOS for recognition, translation, language processing, and speech. Your images and the text recognized inside them never leave your Mac. There are no accounts, uploads, analytics, or cloud processing.

Local processing does have limits. Recognition or translation can occasionally be wrong, and the Mac’s local models will not understand every image as deeply as a large cloud model. DotPeek lets you edit, move, or remove translation overlays when the result needs correction. I think that tradeoff is worthwhile when working with personal image libraries.

You can see more screenshots and the full story behind the app in the original DotPeek introduction (https://www.mymona.xyz/blogs/2026-07/dotpeek-an-image-explorer-powered-by-mac).

If you try it, I’d especially like to hear what kind of images you work with and which part of that workflow currently wastes the most time.

Your feedback will help shape where DotPeek goes next.