Solvenar
A personal librarian that lives on your computer.
EVERY PHOTO · EVERY VIDEO · SEARCHED BY HOW YOU REMEMBER IT
That was 288 sample photos.
Now imagine your 80,000.
Solvenar reads your whole library the way a librarian reads a collection — then finds anything by how you remember it, not by a filename.
100% ON YOUR MAC · WORKS OFFLINE AFTER SETUP
Ask in any language —
including the one photographers speak.
Fuzzy photo search is table stakes now. Solvenar understands the way you actually remember a shot — the language you think in, and the glass you shot it with.
The language you think in.
Type the query the way it comes to you. One multilingual librarian understands them all — on your Mac, with no translation step and no cloud call.
Fluent in EXIF.
Focal length, aperture, ISO, shutter, time of day — say it in plain words and Solvenar filters on the metadata your camera already wrote.
Nothing to import. Nothing to reorganize.
Point Solvenar at the folders you already have — the tidy ones and the "Camera Uploads" one. It catalogues in place and keeps watching for new files. Your originals never move, never get renamed, never get locked into a library format.
Delete Solvenar tomorrow and your files are exactly where you left them.
Faces stay in the family.
Solvenar learns the people in your library, so "June at the lake" just works. Everything it learns about a face stays on your Mac — no cloud face database, no account required.
It's optional, too. Skip it during setup and Solvenar never looks at a face.
June
341 FACES
Mara
212 FACES
Paul
86 FACES
It finds the second, not just the file.
Search "the moment she blows out the candles" and Solvenar lands on the exact scene inside a twelve-minute clip. Every match carries an orange timestamp — one click and you're there.
No scrubbing. No renaming clips MOV_4213_birthday_GOOD_v2.mov ever again.
From search results to your favorite editor.
Select the shots, export a project file, open it in Final Cut, Premiere, or Resolve. Solvenar understands RAW+JPG pairs, camera metadata, and scene timestamps — so the boring half of the edit is already done.
Or copy selects to a folder, pairs intact, and hand it off.
A librarian, not a landlord.
Solvenar touches the internet exactly once — at setup, to fetch what it needs and activate your license. After that, unplug the router and everything still works. Your photos never leave your Mac, because there's nowhere for them to go: no server, no account, no cloud.
Pay once. Search forever.
Everything runs on your Mac — every tier, no cloud, no subscription. Each license includes a year of updates; keep searching forever either way. Early-bird prices while Solvenar is new — they won't last.
The honest part.
How long does the first catalogue take?
The first read-through happens once, entirely on your Mac — and a lifetime of photos is a lot of reading. What it takes depends on three things: whether your Mac has a fan, the level of your Apple Silicon chip (Base, Pro, Max, Ultra), and how big the library is.
I use iCloud Photos with "Optimize Mac Storage." Will it work?
Yes — but on the first read Solvenar has to ask iCloud for each original, and that download can dominate the schedule. Expect the slow end of your band above, and keep enough free disk for the originals it's reading.
Why doesn't it run on my Intel Mac?
Solvenar runs modern vision models locally, and it leans on the unified memory of Apple's M-series chips to do it. Intel Macs aren't slow with Solvenar — they're unsupported. If your Mac's chip has an M in its name, you're good.
Your library already remembers.
Now you can ask it.
A personal librarian that lives on your computer.
Download for Apple Silicon