Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Omni – Local-first multimodal file search on macOS
Finally made something I've always wanted, using the model we built. • SOTA omni embedding model, fully local, indexes text, PDF, image, audio, and video • Swift-native app UI + mlx-swift-transformer core. No Python. • Tested on M3 Pro 18G / M3 Ultra 512G / M4 Pro 48G. All work fine. • HTTP server exposes search to local agents like OpenClaw & Hermes − Indexing still feels slow even on the latest M3 Ultra, ranging from 10K tps to 300 tps depending on file type − Fans go crazy, high power draw while indexing − Search is near-instant. Multimodal relevance is sometimes arguable, but…
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Omni▲588The all-in-one tool to supercharge your productivity
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Over the past few months, I've been working on building Omni - a workplace search and chat platform that connects to apps like Google Drive/Gmail, Slack, Confluence, etc. Essentially an open-source alternative to Glean, fully self-hosted. I noticed that some orgs find Glean to be expensive and not very extensible. I wanted to build something that small to mid-size teams could run themselves, so I decided to build it all on Postgres (ParadeDB to be precise) and pgvector. No Elasticsearch, or dedicated vector databases. I figured Postgres is more than capable of handling the level…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…
2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →
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Ollama v0.19▲410Massive local model speedup on Apple Silicon with MLX
Apr 2026 · ollama.com · its alternatives →
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Precise element control in v7 images
2025 · updates.midjourney.com · its alternatives →
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Run leading vision models locally with the new engine
2025 · ollama.com · its alternatives →
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About six months ago, I started working on a project to fine-tune Whisper locally on my M2 Ultra Mac Studio with a limited compute budget. I got into it. The problem I had at the time was I had 15,000 hours of audio data in Google Cloud Storage, and there was no way I could fit all the audio onto my local machine, so I built a system to stream data from my GCS to my machine during training. Gemma 3n came out, so I added that. Kinda went nuts, tbh. Then I put it on the shelf. When Gemma 4 came out a few days ago, I dusted it off, cleaned it up, broke out the Gemma part from the Whisper…
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
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Omni▲97The fast, personalized web navigation companion
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Cai▲179Hi HN, Cai runs actions on your selection via ⌥C, pick an action (AI, shell, GitHub issue, Linear ticket), done. Bundled local model (MLX Community), create custom actions with prompts, scripts and more. Free, MIT. Built after my Raycast extension sat in review queue for 3+ months. Wanted no typing, no app switching, no cloud. Repo: https://github.com/cai-layer/cai Demo: https://youtu.be/LH2MYNQ_wsk
Apr 2026 · getcai.app · its alternatives →
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I read HN on my phone every day and never really settled on a reader, so I wrote my own and finally tidied it up enough to put out there. It's plain SwiftUI with no third-party dependencies. A few things I spent the most time on: Comments are parsed and drawn as native text instead of being dumped into a web view. Links, italics, quotes and code blocks behave like the rest of the OS, text selection works, and threads collapse instantly. The whole comment tree comes back from the Algolia API in a single request, which felt a lot nicer than walking the Firebase API node by node. Accessibility.…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This lets you talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. I saw Obsidian Ollama (https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama) and thought it was handy, but I'm too lazy to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem, so I quickly hacked this together. I tend to use Notes as a scratchpad for prompts, so it's nice to do some quick inference without leaving the app. Notes doesn't really support plugins so I'm using the macOS accessibility API for reading selections and then stream responses using the clipboard (not ideal but it works).
2024 · smallest.app · its alternatives →
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Mirowl▲96Search all your screenshots via a local OCR-powered AI
Jun 2026 · mirowl.com · its alternatives →
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NoteTabs▲129Native macOS text editor with horizontal tabs & auto-restore
Jan 2026 · notetabs.azurewebsites.net · its alternatives →
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OmniFile▲3Hello HN, I'm the developer of OmniFile. I built this tool because I was frustrated with having my data scattered across too many platforms and struggling to find what I needed quickly. OmniFile is a desktop app that lets you search through your local files and cloud services in one unified interface. Key Features: Integrations: Currently supports Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, Slack, and Notion. Tech Stack: Built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript for the frontend, with a Rust backend for performance and secure file handling. Privacy: It indexes your content locally, so your data…
Feb 2026 · omnifile.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Adithya, a 20-year-old dev from India. I have been working with GenAI for the past year, and I've found it really painful to deal with the many different forms of data out there and get the best representation of it for my AI applications. That's why I built OmniParse—an open-source platform designed to handle any unstructured data and transform it into optimized, structured representations. Key Features: - Completely local processing—no external APIs - Supports ~20 file types - Converts documents, multimedia, and web pages to high-quality structured markdown - Table extraction,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mac media player which support all formats
2021 · okaapps.com · its alternatives →
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Invenio▲74Local AI search for Mac video & photo libraries
May 2026 · getinvenio.com · its alternatives →
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