I want an app that runs locally on my phone in my pocket and indexes the photos I’ve stored locally there, without ever needing any kind of network connection.
But the way you’re describing your setup, it seems to me as if copying your photos to your computer in order to get them indexed is a necessary step.
That’s fair. And in the case of Immich, the photos are automatically backed up to my computer so if I lose my phone I don’t lose the images, but I totally understand wanting something exclusively on the phone (Immich can let you browse photos local on your phone, but I don’t think it indexes them for searching by person/object). Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists, especially since the machine learning for identifying people/objects in pictures is pretty computationally intensive.
I wish you luck in your search! I agree that would be a great app to have
I want an app that runs locally on my phone in my pocket and indexes the photos I’ve stored locally there, without ever needing any kind of network connection.
But the way you’re describing your setup, it seems to me as if copying your photos to your computer in order to get them indexed is a necessary step.
That’s fair. And in the case of Immich, the photos are automatically backed up to my computer so if I lose my phone I don’t lose the images, but I totally understand wanting something exclusively on the phone (Immich can let you browse photos local on your phone, but I don’t think it indexes them for searching by person/object). Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists, especially since the machine learning for identifying people/objects in pictures is pretty computationally intensive.
I wish you luck in your search! I agree that would be a great app to have
Well, that’s exactly why such an app was what I wrote as my reply to the question “What app/program do you wish existed […]?”