Find what you're looking for.
Search your documents, screenshots, and files by name, keyword, or meaning — then ask questions and get answers cited from your own files. It all runs on your Mac. We have no servers that see your data.
Your files, searchable by name, keyword, and meaning.
SearchAF indexes what your files contain, not just what they're called. It reads the text inside PDFs and code, extracts the words in your screenshots, captions your photos, and transcribes your audio recordings — so "the chart from the Q3 deck" finds the chart, whichever file it's buried in. Paste an image to find ones that look like it.
- Documents, PDFs & codefull-text and meaning-based search of what's inside
- Screenshots & imagestext extraction, captions, and object tags
- Audiorecordings transcribed and searchable
- Visual searchpaste or drop an image to find similar ones
Ask a question. Get an answer from your files, with citations.
Press ⌘↩on any search and SearchAF answers the question — it searches your index first, reads what it finds, and cites the files it drew from. Answers run on a local model using your Mac's GPU — in seconds, fully offline. Prefer a cloud model? Connect your own key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and more) — it's off until you turn it on, and the key lives in the macOS Keychain.
notes from alex's interview
Alex's interview covered distributed systems — consensus tradeoffs and running large fleets. Your notes call the systems fundamentals strong and recommend moving to an onsite.
What you're installing.
- Price
- Free. No account, no sign-in, no trial clock.
- Privacy
- Indexing and search run entirely on your Mac — files are read in place, and the index lives in
~/.searchaf. No telemetry of any kind. The one opt-in exception is connecting Answers to a cloud provider — details in the privacy policy. - Models
- The first download is about 5.2 GB of open models (embedding, OCR, captioning, transcription). Search is fully local, and indexing never triggers a network fetch.
- Install
- Signed and notarized DMG. Drag to Applications. SearchAF checks for updates on its own; they install only when you choose.
- Requirements
- An Apple silicon Mac (M-series). Local answers run on its GPU.
Get SearchAF for Mac.
Enter your email and we'll unlock your download link. We'll email you exactly twice: once with a copy of your link, and once a month later to ask how it's going. That's it.
SearchAF is built on Antfly's open-source search engine and Antfly Inference's on-device inference.