Launched this week
Invenio
Local AI search for Mac video & photo libraries
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Local AI search for Mac video & photo libraries
57 followers
Most AI media tools want your data in the cloud. Invenio is built for your Mac. It gives your AI local access to your video and photo libraries. Type "man on a bike" – it finds the exact frame, understands the context, and lets you drag it directly into Premiere or Final Cut. No cloud, no tracking, 100% local via Apple Neural Engine. Works with TBs on external drives. Visual search and OCR are completely free.
I would like to know if you process all videos to create metadata locally or with every search the apple neural engine goes through all the videos ?
@harshalvc_ai thank you for the question, Harshal!
Invenio creates a local index once. This makes subsequent searches nearly instant and very light on the CPU/Battery, as the app only needs to check the index, not the original video files.
Congrats on the launch, I like the concept of using local AI for data exploration.
Wondering if new photos are synced automatically to a Invenio folder or we have to manually trigger it.
Also it's worth to consider adding some memory moment + desktop notification.
@kien_nguyen2 Thanks for the feedback, Kian! You're right – for now, you have to manually trigger the sync if the directory updates.
Regarding the 'memory moment' and desktop notifications, do you mean something like the "On this day" feature in Google/Apple Photos? That's an interesting idea, I'll definitely think about it. Thanks for the suggestion! Have you had a chance to test the app yourself yet?
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I confirm. For creators, search is a huge hidden productivity problem, especially when years of footage are sitting across external drives. “Google Photos-level search, but private and on-device” is a very clear positioning.
What was the hardest part technically, indexing large video libraries locally or making the search results precise enough?
@thamibenjelloun Thanks for the feedback, Thami! Honestly, both were a massive headache. Doing everything 100% locally on a Mac is quite a beast – keeping the indexing fast without freezing the machine is tough, and tuning the search precision on-device is just as hard.