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What is ByteDetective?

ByteDetective is a desktop app (currently available for MacOS) that acts as a semantic search engine for your photos. The aim is to make searching for images on your desktop quick and easy.

Images are difficult to search; they often don't have a really intuitive filename, and you have to dig a lot to find them. Wouldn't it make more sense to search for them based on their content (e.g "eating pizza with friends")?

Why it's cool:

  • 📁 Ease of use: Say goodbye to the endless struggle of navigating through countless files and folders to find that one picture
  • 🔮 Intelligent: Even if your description is vague, ByteDetective will deliver pretty decent results, giving you images that match your words.
  • Fast: Lightning-fast performance as the inference is made with Rust.

How it works

Demo

bd_demo.mp4

How to use

  1. Download the release.
  2. Open it.
  3. Give the app authorizations to access your files.
  4. Leave it open for a few hours. At first, it will take a little time to scan all the images on your computer. Then it will get faster and synchronize with new images on the fly, promise.

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