Visual Search Workbench 0.2.2

Local-first semantic and visual photo search for macOS. Apple Silicon, macOS 14 or later.

The disk image bundles the embedding, segmentation and detection models, so nothing is fetched on first launch.

Before you download

• Not notarized by Apple. macOS will refuse the first double-click. Use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
• Check the bytes. shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS confirms you received what was built. GitHub serves the download, not darce.xyz, and the digest is the only end-to-end check across that hop.

Changes since 0.2.1

• The detector's half-precision output is now decoded from raw bits rather than through a type that only exists on Apple Silicon. Bit-exact against the hardware conversion across all 65536 patterns; results on Apple Silicon are unchanged.
• Core ML compute units are chosen by whether the machine has a Neural Engine. Apple Silicon is unaffected. Previously the setting would have excluded the GPU on a machine without an ANE.

Licences for the bundled models are in the README and inside the app bundle.