MediaIndex 1.1.0

MediaIndex 1.1.0: iPhone photos and videos, dates and places, a map, look-alikes, and a Windows app.

New

• iPhone photos and videos: HEIC photos, .mov videos (portrait video now upright), and Live Photos shown as one item with a LIVE badge and ▶ Live playback.
• When and where: dates and places are read from your photos' and videos' camera data. Places are named on your computer from a built-in city list; nothing is looked up online.
  • Ask understands "beach photos from 2024", "photos from last December", "everything from Goa", "how many dogs in 2024?"
  • Search has Taken from … to … and in: country › region › town filters.
  • Browse by date: years, then months, under the search box.
  • Map of places: an offline world map with a dot for each place; click one to see what you took there.
• Find look-alikes: burst shots and copies grouped together, with the sharpest one marked ★ keep. One click puts the others into a selection to review. Nothing is ever deleted.
• Ask: searches also show matching video moments, which play right there. "Save these as Goa trip" puts an answer's photos into a selection.
• Faster first look: thumbnails, dates and places appear within seconds of adding a folder (60 photos: 1.5 s). Search indexing continues in the background.
• ⌘K (Ctrl+K) or / jumps to the search box.
• Windows app (new, see below).

Install

Mac (Apple silicon, macOS 13+): download MediaIndex-1.1.0-macos-arm64.zip, unzip it, and drag MediaIndex to Applications. The first time, right-click → Open → Open (on macOS 15: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway). It isn't signed by Apple.

Windows 10/11 (x64): download MediaIndex-1.1.0-windows-x64.zip, unzip it, and run MediaIndex\MediaIndex.exe. The first time, Windows may say "Windows protected your PC": click More info → Run anyway. It runs on the CPU, so indexing is slower than on a Mac. This is the first Windows release. It is built and start-checked on GitHub's Windows machines but hasn't been tried on many real PCs yet, so please report problems in issue #7.

On both, the AI models download once on first launch (1.6 GB, plus 2.7 GB if you include photo editing). After that everything works offline. FFmpeg is included.

Upgrading from 1.0.0: your library is kept, and the dates and places of photos you already added are read in the background the first time 1.1.0 starts.

Known limits

• Neither app is signed (Apple / Microsoft), hence the first-launch steps above.
• Seasons in Ask ("last summer") follow the northern hemisphere.
• Place names come from the nearest town with 15,000+ people, so small villages get the nearest such town.
• Look-alikes and best-shot suggestions are similarity and sharpness measures, not judgements. Review before deleting anything.

Licences of every model, program and bundled data (GeoNames, Natural Earth): NOTICE.md and THIRD_PARTY_DATA.md.

MediaIndex 1.0.0

The first release of MediaIndex: chat with your photos, search them and edit them, all on your Mac.

Install

1. Download MediaIndex-1.0.0-macos-arm64.zip below, unzip it, and drag MediaIndex to Applications.
2. The first time, right-click MediaIndex → Open → Open. The app isn't signed by Apple yet. On macOS 15, if there's no Open button, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
3. Choose whether to include photo editing. The AI models download once (1.6 GB, plus 2.7 GB for editing), then everything works offline.
4. Click + Add folder and pick a folder of photos.

Needs an Apple silicon Mac (M1 or later) and macOS 13+. FFmpeg is included. For free-form chat and photo descriptions in Ask, optionally install Ollama and run ollama pull gemma4:e2b-it-qat.

Try asking

• "how many dogs do I have?"
• "show me red cars"
• "remove the benches from photo 4"
• "now replace them with one table instead"

What runs on your Mac

EmbeddingGemma 2 (search) · RT-DETR v2 (counting) · Gemma 4 E2B via Ollama (optional chat) · SAM + LaMa (remove) · Stable Diffusion 1.5 inpainting + LCM-LoRA (replace, make images)

Known limits

• Apple silicon only; not signed or notarized.
• On an 8 GB Mac, the first edit after launch can take a few minutes while the models load. Later edits are much faster. 16 GB helps.
• Indexing 10,000 photos takes about 5–6 hours on an 8 GB M1.
• Sound search is rough.

Licences of every model and bundled program: NOTICE.md.