DigUp
Search your Mac by what's in your files: photos, PDFs, recordings, videos and code. On-device, built on Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2.
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Details
- External ID
- 1410929004
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- DigUp
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1724
- Upvotes percentile
- 1.00
- Tags
- embeddinggemma, embeddings, llama-cpp, local-first, macos, menubar-app, multimodal, on-device, semantic-search, swift
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local semantic search for mac files using embeddings
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial The macOS client UI and pipeline are vibe-codeable, but running local multi-modal embeddings across diverse file types performantly on Apple Silicon requires specialized ML engineering.
What it would actually take: The app needs a native macOS daemon (Swift) hooked into FSEvents to track file changes, extraction parsers for photos, audio, code, and PDFs, and a local vector database (like SQLite with sqlite-vec). The difficult part is compiling and quantizing Google's EmbeddingGemma model with Apple MLX or CoreML to run efficiently without draining battery or causing thermal throttling during background indexing.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 82 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 83 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 216 days after the earliest competitor.
- Search On Mac · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- ShowMe · github · 2026-10-11 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- VectorDash · github · 2026-10-10 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SCM · github · 2026-10-03 · 420 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Video Atlas · ph · 2026-09-19 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- filedig · github · 2026-10-11 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AnySearch Pro · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS · hn · 2026-10-04 · 178 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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