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Omni Search

Omni searches your local files by meaning - text, code, PDFs, images, audio, and video in one vector space, in any language. Runs on-device on Apple silicon. Private, offline.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  No registration required
  2.  Live Preview
  3.  Ad-free
  4.  Works Offline
  5.  No Tracking
  6.  AI-Powered
  7.  File preview
  8.  File Search
  9.  Natural Language Processing
  10.  Apple Silicon support
  11.  Find similar images
  12.  Integrated Search

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Omni Search information

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is Omni Search?

Search every file on your Mac by meaning. Text, code, PDFs, images, audio, and video in one vector space - searched in any language, entirely on-device.

Features:

  • One space for every file: Text, code, PDFs, images, audio, and video are embedded into a single vector space. A text query matches them all - including scanned pages.
  • Any language: Languages share that same space, so a query in one finds files in another. Search in English, match notes in German, Chinese, or Japanese.
  • Local and private: Indexing and search run on your Mac. Files never leave the device. No accounts, no telemetry, no network at query time.
  • Native to macOS: List and Gallery views, real QuickLook thumbnails, drag and drop, and filters by kind, folder, and score.

Private by design. Everything stays on your Mac.

Omni runs a native MLX-Swift port of jina-embeddings-v5-omni in-process, on the Apple silicon GPU. The model downloads once; after that, Omni works offline.

Give your local agents search.

Omni exposes its search over your indexed files as a local endpoint - loopback-only and token-guarded. Agents like Hermes and OpenClaw query your files by meaning, on your machine, with no cloud round-trip.

  • Search endpoint: The same semantic search the app uses, over the index you already built - how agents actually reach your files.
  • Embeddings · add-on: Raw vectors too, via OpenAI-, Jina-, Cohere-, and Gemini-compatible APIs.

Search with any file, find any file.

Every file - image, audio, video, text - lands in one shared vector space, so a query is just another file. Drop in a photo to find related screenshots, a voice memo to surface where it came from, a PDF to pull up everything near it. Right-click any result and choose Find Similar, or drop a file onto the search. One model, one space, any direction.

How fast is Omni on your Mac?

Real, community-submitted indexing benchmarks over a fixed 1,000-file dataset. Anyone can contribute by running File ? Run Profiling in the app.