I really want an app that locally indexes my locally stored photos and lets me search them locally, based on places, things or people seen in the photo.
For example here’s me searching for “forest”. But it also supports looking for people (even multiple people in the same image), places, dates, or combinations of all of them. It’ll also look for text in images. The link has more examples
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
That is completely fair, and part of that is on me since I spend so much time in self hosting communities where such a recommendation isn’t too out of the ordinary, while it’s way out of scope for what most people are looking for
Having a more user friendly and approachable way to do stuff like this would be very helpful
I really want an app that locally indexes my locally stored photos and lets me search them locally, based on places, things or people seen in the photo.
I second Immich. Does this great, and the local AI mapping is pretty good.
Digikam
No search by “thing” without manually tagging though
Immich lets you do this
https://immich.app/docs/features/searching/
For example here’s me searching for “forest”. But it also supports looking for people (even multiple people in the same image), places, dates, or combinations of all of them. It’ll also look for text in images. The link has more examples
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
I think there is a fine line between “installing an app” and “spinning up a docker image and keeping it maintained”.
I’m in the camp that Docker images are what .exe’s used to be, but they’re not easily accessible still. So Immich doesn’t count I fear.
That is completely fair, and part of that is on me since I spend so much time in self hosting communities where such a recommendation isn’t too out of the ordinary, while it’s way out of scope for what most people are looking for
Having a more user friendly and approachable way to do stuff like this would be very helpful