Everything PicSy can do.

Natural-language image search

Type what you remember and let PicSy match meaning, not just filenames. Searches span AI descriptions, tags, file names, and paths, with synonym expansion so “car” also surfaces “automobile” and “sedan.”

• Semantic ranking with relevance scoring
• Synonym & related-term expansion
• Advanced filters: file type, size, date, and regular expressions
• Sort by relevance, name, date, size, or type

100% local & private by default

Your library is indexed on your own machine. Choose local AI models for complete privacy, or bring a cloud key — your choice, per provider.

• On-device SQLite index — searches never touch the network
• Run fully offline with Ollama or LM Studio
• Cloud API keys encrypted in your OS keychain
• No telemetry on your photos, no subscription lock-in

Blazing-fast indexing

An Everything-style local index keeps things instant, even across very large libraries, and stays current automatically.

• High-performance embedded database (better-sqlite3)
• Live folder watching — new files are picked up automatically
• Incremental re-indexing skips unchanged files

Duplicate & similar-image detection

Find and clear out clutter with three complementary methods, with adjustable similarity thresholds.

• Exact duplicates by content hash (MD5)
• Near-duplicates by perceptual hash (pHash)
• Visually similar images by color histogram

OCR — read the text inside images

Extract text from screenshots, receipts, slides, and memes so you can search by the words an image contains, not just its visuals.

AI upscaling

Enlarge and sharpen images up to 4× with Real-ESRGAN, including models tuned for photos and for illustration/anime — all processed locally.

Annotate & mark up

A built-in editor for quick markup — pen, highlighter, lines, arrows, shapes, and text — with undo/redo and export, so you never leave the app for a quick edit.

Storage insights

An interactive treemap shows what's consuming your disk, broken down by folder and file type, so big space wins are obvious at a glance.

Bring your own AI — cloud or local

Switch the “brain” to fit your privacy, speed, and budget at any time.

• Cloud: Claude, GPT, Gemini, Groq, Qwen, Kimi, DeepSeek
• Local: Ollama and LM Studio (LLaVA, Qwen-VL, Llama 3.2 Vision, Gemma 3 and more)
• Per-provider model selection and tunable analysis prompts

Built for power users

A local MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposes your indexed library to other tools and AI agents, so you can query images programmatically.