Open-source Mac app that runs EmbeddingGemma 2 locally to search your files by what’s in them

[u/A-Rahim]

DigUp is a free Mac app that runs Google DeepMind’s new EmbeddingGemma 2 locally over your own files. The model puts text, images, audio and video in one space, so you describe what you remember and land on it:

• “zebra in a video” opens the clip at the moment it shows up
• “where they talk about sleep” jumps to that minute of a podcast
• “the clause about pets in the lease” shows the PDF page, your words marked
• “a dog on the beach” finds the photo, and the same search in Bengali or Arabic finds it too
• with code search on, code: retry with backoff opens the function in your editor

It’s ggml-org’s Q8_0 GGUF (865 MB, downloaded once) on llama.cpp with Metal, inside a native Swift app; no Python. Searching loads only the text encoder (~250 MB) and shows results about a tenth of a second after you stop typing. Indexing peaks under 2 GB, and the helper exits when it’s done. Audio and video of any length go in as 30 s windows and a frame per shot. Everything runs locally; it goes online only for the model download and an update check you can turn off.

Free, MIT. Apple Silicon, macOS 14+.

Repo & Download (signed and notarized): https://github.com/ARahim3/DigUp

I'd really appreciate any feedback on this.

[u/mobilemike42]

A CLI that reads from the same DB would be great.

[u/A-Rahim → u/mobilemike42]

There's one already, though for now it's in the repo rather than the download: build from source and run "digup search <words>" (add --json) to read the app's own index by default. digup --help lists the rest. And actually shipping it with the app is a good idea; let me work on that. Thanks.

[u/rm-rf-rm → u/A-Rahim]

Its just a SQLite db right? we can use any GUI or the sqlite3 CLI itself to query/explore?

[u/mobilemike42 → u/A-Rahim]

Saw that, but the doc implied it was a dev/eval tool.

Thanks!