App: Queryable: Find Photo by Text
Developer: Yeonni Lee
Genres: Utilities, Photo & Video

Queryable - An open-source, offline semantic photo album search tool.
 
With Queryable, you can search for photos in your albums using text descriptions like "photos of our gathering," "kite in blue sky," "dog, girl, and flower," or even emotions depicted in the photo.

1. What's the highlights ?
- You can use complex & long descriptions to search photos, rather than object keywords.
- Open source, offline, and operates without network. This means you don't have to expose your photo album privacy to anyone.

2. How to use Queryable ?
The first time you use Queryable, it will build an index of all your photos, which takes a few minutes, depending on the number of photos you have, this step is performed only once. After that, you can start searching for anything you want. When you have new photos, you can manually update the index to make them searchable. 

3. Are there any privacy or security issues?
Queryable values your privacy. Therefore it is designed to be totally offline and will never request your network access, thereby avoiding any privacy issues. (You can turn off its network permissions if you wish.)
- update: for version>=1.1.2, Queryable now gives users the option to choose whether to use wireless data to fetch photos from iCloud. This feature is not mandatory.

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4. Any requirements for the iPhone model?
Queryable runs CoreML locally, which means if your iPhone does not support CoreML, you can't use it.
The limitations are:
* iOS 16.0 or above
* Not tested on iPad or MacOS yet.

5. Issues with iClould
Since it cannot connect to a network, Queryable can only use the cache of the low-definition versions of your local Photos albums if you do NOT allows it connectes to network. This does not affect search accuracy, except that you cannot view the original image in the search results.

6. What if it crashes when building an index ?
Make sure you're iOS 16.0, iPhone 11 or above. Turn off low battery mode and kill the memory-hungry app, then try building the index again.

If there are still problems, please contact: Email: myfancoo@gmail.com or Twitter: immazzystar


Github: https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable
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Release notes:
- Now supports iPhone 10 and older devices.