Seek
Find Mac files and photos in plain English, privately
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Seek is a native Mac file manager with plain-English search, photo search by meaning, text search inside images and PDFs, Smart Rename, split view, duplicate detection and cleanup. File search and analysis run locally on your Mac. Supports macOS 14+ on Apple silicon and Intel. One-time purchase from $9; no subscription.
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PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Apple
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Partial The UI and file-management features are native Mac app work that AI coding can handle. Semantic photo search and text extraction from images and PDFs require local embedding models and OCR pipelines, which need real ML and macOS systems expertise to tune and ship.
What it would actually take: Build a native Swift/SwiftUI macOS app with a file-indexing service. Use Apple Vision for OCR and a local embedding model (CoreML or a quantized model) for meaning-based search, backed by a vector index such as SQLite with an ANN extension. The hard parts are indexing performance on large libraries, model size and speed on both Apple silicon and Intel, and search quality tuning, which requires someone with ML and macOS engineering experience.
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Attention rank: #166 of 321 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 267 days after the earliest competitor.
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