Queryable - Photo Search App
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Description
A product that has reached #1 on the front page of Hacker News and topped the paid tools chart across all European countries, while ranking #2 in the US on the same day. Queryable: An open-source, offline photo album search tool unlike anything you've ever seen. With Queryable, you can search your photos using detailed and natural descriptions such as "two people by the sea," "a blonde woman holding a glass of red wine," "a girl in red on the lawn," or even emotional moments like "We fell in love." Unlike traditional photo apps that rely on simple tags, Queryable understands complex and lengthy descriptions. It's completely open-source, works entirely offline, and requires no network connection, ensuring your photo album's privacy is fully protected. Pay once and use it forever. No network connection is needed after downloading, guaranteeing your privacy remains safeguarded. FAQ: 1. What languages does Queryable support? Queryable supports English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian, though the English version delivers significantly better results. 2. How is my photo privacy protected? Queryable works completely offline. You can even disable the app's network permissions if you have privacy concerns. 3. How do I use it? After downloading, you'll need to build an index for your photos, which takes a few minutes depending on your photo collection and device. On an iPhone 12 mini, it processes about 2,000 photos per minute, and this indexing is only required once. Once indexing is complete, you can quickly search and get results. When you add new photos to your collection, you can easily update the index. Contact: - Email: myfancoo@gmail.com - Twitter: @immazzystar - GitHub: https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable Preview page created with https://screenshots.pro/.
What's New
Performance - 4x Faster Launch — App startup reduced from ~16s to ~4s on large libraries (60,000+ photos). - Faster Search — Photo similarity search is now GPU-accelerated. What's New - Smarter Duplicate Detection — Completely rewritten algorithm with quality scoring. Duplicates are now grouped more accurately, and you can batch-delete them in one tap. - iCloud Photo Hints — When viewing a blurry iCloud photo, an orange banner now guides you to download the full-resolution version. Bug Fixes - Fixed crash during long indexing sessions — Users with very large photo libraries no longer experience crashes when building the index. - Fixed cancel button not responding — Tapping "Cancel" during indexing now stops immediately as expected. - Fixed progress bar not appearing — The indexing progress bar now shows up right away instead of after a delay. Improvements - Adaptive layout — The UI now renders consistently across different iPhone and iPad screen sizes. - Dynamic Type support — Text and icons now respect your system font size preference.
Details
- Developer
- SmashMelon LLC
- Main Category
- Photo & Video
- Version
- 2.0.9
- Version Release
- 2026-03-22
- Initial Release
- 2022-12-28
- Size
- 196 MB
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Price
- USD 6.99
- Languages
- EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Bundle ID
- com.mazzystar.Queryable
- Version Rating
- ★ 4.66 (80)
- First Seen
- 2026-05-28
Metadata updated 2026-06-12
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Just a fantastic app, search works super well and the developer has implemented most of the features I’ve wanted out of this app. Great job!
I like how quick and easy it is to use. One issue I have is that the images aren’t masonry like on the photos app which makes it a bit hard to see but its not a big deal imo. When selecting multiple images I wish you could multiselect a lot of images like on the photod app. I’d also like if you could copy your entire selection in the share option or move them to another app. The only action you can take is deleting it which is neat but more options (like copying or ideally opening them in another app) would be great! On the iPad if your in horizontal mode and you open an image. The image apparently shrinks in size. You have to put it on vertical one and back to horizontal mode to fix it. If a couple of this changes could be implemented that would take this application from a great app to a extremely useful one. Overall this is a great project! Keep up the great work!!! If I see any of these changes I’ll be happy to give this a 5 star! Edit: saw this awesome update go through!! Glad to see improvements are being made! Amazing app! :)
I literally just bought this and used it on my Mac Studio and also on my MacBook Air. For both instances, it does not seem to function correctly. Any query brings up the same results. Reading a prior developer response, it appears the developer recommends not using it on Mac, but it’s listed as a Mac app on the store.
The application keeps crashing during indexing. It has only indexed a proportion of my photos. Those photos that I did index missed so many details. People, locations, objects.
节省了很多时间去找照片
This app is truly amazing however the feature to select all photos as well as a way to move selected photos to the files folder or another 3rd party app is severely missing. These two options would be a complete game changer. Please try to implement them.
Videos won’t playback within the app, and just appear black.
For some reason it has a difficult time matching words if they are in larger font. It also keeps freezing after selecting a photo and searching for similar.
I have over 50,000 screenshots on an important subject that I need help finding daily. Queryable helps me find the needles in the haystacks! Will it always get it right? No. But it is a powerful tool that helps make the job of finding specific photos much easier. So bravo to the creators of this app! Thank you! May you all be blessed. : )
Makes searching through my tens of thousands of photos much more efficient. Irreplaceable application. 10/10.
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