Search your Mac by meaning.

Name: Omni
Author: Han Xiao

Every file. Any language. Fully airgapped.

Download for macOS v0.19.6

MD5 08803713d4e773ec6c3e5ac954706c72

Built for files that never sit still.

2.7Mfiles in one index

19 msto search all of them

90%less work when a file grows

Liveedits, moves and deletes apply in place

Made like a Mac app.

Finderbrowse, preview and share the way you already do

Metalsearch and every model on the GPU

0 bytesleave your Mac, ever

Opensource, Apache 2.0

One index for everything.

Every file

Text, code, PDFs, images, audio, video.

Any language

Matched by meaning, not keywords.

Search by file

Drop an image, a clip or a document.

To the passage

Page 12, Line 1240.

OCR

Scans to Markdown, fully local.

Filters

type: in: date: tag: score:

Duplicates

Stacked into one result.

Folders and Photos

Kept in sync as they change.

Airgapped

Works with the network off.

Any languageAsk in Chinese, find English notes, code and recordings. Matched by meaning, not keywords.
Straight to the passageEvery hit names its page or line and shows the text that matched. ext:pdf keeps it to PDFs.
Search with a fileDrop in a document, an image or a clip, or right-click any result for Find Similar.
Linked MacsOne search covers your other Macs too, each on its own index. Their files open here.
Scans become MarkdownThe scanned page, its Markdown and the rendered result side by side, transcribed on this Mac.
Folders become mapsEvery file in a folder placed by meaning, colored by kind.

Built for agents.

Command line, MCP and HTTP, on this Mac.

# Any shell or agent
omni search "invoice from february" --top-k 5

# Claude Code over MCP
claude mcp add --transport http omni http://127.0.0.1:51234/mcp

# Any HTTP client
curl http://127.0.0.1:51234/v1/search -d '{"query": "invoice from february", "top_k": 5}'

Search: /v1/search
OCR: /v1/chat/completions · /v1/ocr
Embeddings: OpenAI · Jina · Cohere · Gemini
Tags: /v1/tag · /v1/files/tags
Index: /v1/sources · /v1/files/status
Command line: omni · SKILL.md
MCP: 10 tools

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Paper

omni-macos: On-Device Omni-Modal Search on Apple Silicon

Han Xiao · NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on On-Device Intelligence · arXiv:2608.05543

@inproceedings{xiao2026omnimacos,
  title     = {omni-macos: On-Device Omni-Modal Search on Apple Silicon},
  author    = {Xiao, Han},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on On-Device Intelligence},
  year      = {2026},
  eprint    = {2608.05543},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05543}
}