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I have built something similar but only for photos - https://viroop.com. It is free for now. You have to run this command on the extracted app for MacOS to not show you the dreaded "App is damaged" dialog - `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Viroop.app`.

My app is built with tauri too. It supports all kinds of images - - JPEG - PNG - TIFF - WEBP - BMP - ICO - GIF - AVIF - HEIC/HEIF and RAW images from various camera manufacturers.

The image reading and processing (for exporting images) is all done on the rust side. These are the crates i use - image - libheif-rs -> to read HEIF/HEIC images - rawler -> to read JPEGs embedded inside RAW images - libraw -> to convert RAW images to JPEGs and PNGs - rexiv2 -> to read image exif data

I use the candle crate to download the CLIP model and generate index pairs for images. I store the faiss indexes in a file on the file system.

I am using the app personally for about a month and it feels amazing to use something you have built yourself.

I hope to add an image editor to the app in the future so that I have my own app management and editing software which is enough for my ametuer needs.

Any kind of feedback would be most welcome.



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