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SEARCH WIZARD Spotlight For Your Computer

Search images, videos, audio, and documents using natural language.
It's not AI, it's completely AI-free. Just pure math with magic ✨.

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macOS · Windows · Linux · Free & Open Source

✦ photo of a person wearing blue coolers |

All Images Video Audio Docs

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Photo — Summer Trip

Beach photo with sunglasses

Best Match

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beach_vlog.mp4

Video · 42 MB

Strong Match

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IMG_4821.jpg

Search the way your brain thinks

Not by filename. Not by date. By what's actually in the file.

Semantic Search

Search your files by meaning instead of filenames. Ask "photo of a person wearing blue coolers" and find it instantly.

Multimodal Search

Search across images, videos, audio, PDFs, Word docs, code files — all in one place.

Real-Time Indexing

Files become searchable automatically. Add a document, it's in your search results within seconds.

Instant Preview

See image thumbnails, video previews, and text snippets before opening a single file.

Privacy First

Everything runs locally on your machine. Your files never leave your computer. Only embeddings are computed remotely.

Wizard Mode

Ask questions about your files. "What do my PDFs say about transformers?" — get an answer from your own content.

How It Works

Simple pipeline. Powerful results.

Search Wizard processes your files locally and makes them instantly queryable.

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Index Your Files

Choose folders to index. Search Wizard crawls and reads your documents, images, videos, and audio.

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Extraction

Content is extracted from each file — text from PDFs, frames from videos, spectrograms from audio.

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Embeddings

Google Gemini converts each chunk into a 768-dimensional semantic vector stored in FAISS.

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Vector Search

Your query is embedded and matched against your file vectors at lightning speed.

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Instant Results

Top results surface with previews, ranked by semantic similarity to your query.

Demo

See it in action

One shortcut. Any file. Natural language.

Index a folder

Press ⌘+Shift+Space, click 📁 and choose any folder

Search naturally

Type "photo of a person wearing blue coolers" or "a music that sounds like a lions roar"

Preview instantly

See the result before you open it with the rich preview pane

Open with Enter

Press Enter to open, Cmd+R to reveal in Finder

Search Wizard — Live Demo

✦ photo of a person wearing blue coolers

▣ Photo — Summer Trip 2025 Best Match

▣ IMG_4821.jpg Strong Match

🎞️ Beach_Vlog.mp4 Possible Match

ask where was this photo taken?

🤖 Based on the metadata and visual landmarks in the image, this photo appears to have been taken near the coastal promenade during your trip.

Try These

What can you search?

Search Wizard understands meaning, not just filenames. Here are some real queries.

📸 "images from my trip to Goa"

📝 "notes about machine learning"

🖥️ "screenshot where I was on a call"

🎵 "a music that sounds like a lions roar"

😎 "photo of a person wearing blue coolers"

🐕 "photo of my dog at the park"

🍕 "screenshot of a pizza recipe from last month"

🤸 "video of me attempting a backflip"

🎷 "voice note where I hummed a jazz tune"

Download

Available on every platform

Download the app, add your API key, and start searching in under 2 minutes.

macOS

SEARCHWIZARD_mac.dmg

Version 26.1.3 · Apple Silicon + Intel

↓ Download for macOS

COMPULSORY STEP

Because the app is unsigned, macOS will say it is "damaged". You must run this command in your Terminal after dragging the app to Applications:

              xattr -cr /Applications/SEARCH\ WIZARD.app
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macOS 12+ required

Windows

SEARCHWIZARD_windows.exe

Version 26.1.3 · 64-bit

↓ Download for Windows

Windows 10+ required

Linux

SEARCHWIZARD_linux.AppImage

Version 26.1.3 · AppImage

↓ Download for Linux

Ubuntu 20.04+ / Debian

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You'll need a free Gemini API key

Search Wizard uses Google's Gemini embedding models for semantic search. The free tier includes 1,500 requests/day — way more than you'll need.

1 Visit Google AI Studio

2 Click Create API Key

3 Copy & paste during setup

Get Free API Key ↗

Creator

Built by a human who lost too many files

Deepan Chandrasekaran

AI Engineer & Builder

Building tools for intelligent computing. Search Wizard started as a personal frustration — having thousands of screenshots, notes, and files that were impossible to find. Gemini's multimodal embeddings made it finally possible to build something that truly understands your files.

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