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ScreenSearch v0.1.0 — first public (pre-release) build

ScreenSearch is a Windows-only, fully local desktop app that captures your screen, makes it
searchable by text and meaning, and answers questions about it — entirely on-device. No cloud, no
account, no telemetry.

⚠️ Pre-release & unsigned. Early build for testing. The installer is not code-signed, so
Windows SmartScreen will warn on first launch — click More info → Run anyway. Treat it as beta.

Install

  1. Download ScreenSearch_0.1.0_x64-setup.exe below.
  2. Run it (SmartScreen → More info → Run anyway), then launch ScreenSearch.

First run — what to expect

  • Internet is required on first run. The app downloads its inference engine (the llama.cpp
    llama-server Vulkan binary) and ML models (a vision model + an answer/reasoning model + the text
    embedding model) — roughly 8–10 GB total — into its per-user app-data folder
    (%APPDATA%\app.screensearchv2c.desktop\). Downloads show progress in-app and are resumable.
  • The download is single-stream, so the large (~5 GB) Quality vision model can take several
    minutes — slower than parallel download tools. A faster parallel/chunked downloader is coming in
    0.1.1. Just leave it running; it will finish.
  • Only one instance runs at a time — if you launch it again, it focuses the existing window
    instead of starting a second copy (this also keeps the model download and your data safe).

Requirements

  • Windows 10/11 x64 with the WebView2 runtime (ships with Windows 11; the installer fetches it
    on Windows 10 if missing).
  • A Vulkan-capable GPU is recommended for fast inference; a CPU fallback exists but is slower.
  • ~50 GB free disk recommended (models + captured frames accumulate over time).

What's in it

The full P0–P5 app: continuous screen capture with a diff gate + privacy controls, WinRT OCR,
in-process embeddings (hybrid text + semantic search), on-demand vision tagging and grounded "Ask"
answers with citations, and the Command-Deck UI (Recall, Timeline, Moments, Insights, Settings).

Known limitations

  • Unsigned → SmartScreen warning (above). Code signing is a tracked follow-up.
  • First-run model download is single-stream (a few minutes for the big model); parallel download lands
    in 0.1.1.
  • Windows-only by design.

See CHANGELOG.md for the full list of changes.

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