PhotoShelf
PhotoShelf scans your hard drive, auto-tags every photo with on-device AI (CLIP + InsightFace), and lets you search with natural language — "a dog on the beach at sunset". No upload, no cloud, no account. Free up to 5,000 photos.
CLIP model runs locally to label every photo: objects, scenes, colors, moods. Search "red car", "portrait", "mountain" — instantly.
Type natural language queries. Find photos by meaning, not just filename or date. "A dog playing on grass" works.
InsightFace detects faces and groups them by person. Name your clusters and filter by people.
Browse by year/month, filter by AI tags, favorites, ratings. Left-panel drill-down.
Finds near-duplicate and visually similar photos using perceptual hashing. Clean up clutter.
If photos have GPS EXIF, view them on a map. Click a pin to see the photo.
Full-screen slideshow with adjustable interval. Arrow keys to navigate, F to favorite, R to rotate.
Watch folders in background. New photos added are automatically scanned and indexed.
Extract frames from MP4/MOV videos and index them too. Your video library becomes searchable.
Star favorite photos, rate 1-5 stars, add notes. Filter by any combination.
Export visible photos to a folder, generate HTML photo albums, export CSV, backup/restore database.
English, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian.
1. Download and extract the zip. 2. Run PhotoShelf.exe. 3. Click "Add Scan Folder" and pick a photo directory. 4. Wait for AI indexing (first scan takes a few minutes). 5. Type a search like "dog" and press Enter.
Full guide: PhotoShelf Help
Up to 5,000 photos. All core features: AI tagging, semantic search, timeline, tags, favorites, duplicates, slideshow. No time limit.
Unlimited photos. Video frame extraction, map view, face clusters, HTML album export, priority support. Perpetual license, free updates.