Anthora
Find photos and videos without moving them into the cloud
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Browse and search unlimited photos and videos in ordinary Mac folders, external drives and mounted network shares for free, with no account or time limit. Find filenames, dates and text inside images; keep favorites and separate libraries. Anthora 1.1 adds photo books with 12 designs, 6 sizes and PDF export. Books and cleanup tools cost $29 once for two Macs. Requires Apple silicon and macOS 14+.
PH · launched Sep 12, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Photography
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and PDF generation are straightforward, but building a fast, private, on-device media indexer that extracts OCR text and detects visual duplicates across massive local directories requires optimized native performance.
What it would actually take: The core requires Swift/Objective-C with Apple Vision framework (VNRecognizeTextRequest, feature prints) and Core Image/Metal for local visual embedding and near-duplicate hashing. High-throughput file indexing across SMB/external drives requires background dispatch queues, SQLite with sqlite-vec or custom vector indexing, and memory-managed thumbnail caching.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 604 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #530 of 605 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
- Peekaboo · ph · 2026-11-09 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- KarmaDisk · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Twinkeep · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Video Atlas · ph · 2026-09-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Seek · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Photo & Video Doctor · ph · 2026-11-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Sweepcut · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Drive Browser · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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