Search every photo, clip, and spoken moment on your Mac.
Describe what you remember — or ask by person, place, date, camera setting, or dialogue. Nothing is uploaded.
SOLVENAR · EVERY PHOTO · EVERY VIDEO · FOUND THE WAY YOU REMEMBER IT
That was 288 sample photos.
Now imagine your 80,000.
Every folder, every drive, every clip — read once, on your Mac, searchable forever.
Ask like you shoot.
Type portraits at ƒ/1.8, golden hour — the sentence bar parses it into clauses you can dismiss one by one. Light and lens tags come from EXIF and sun position, not a guess.
RAW+JPG pairs travel together. Collect your picks to a folder, or write XMP sidecars Lightroom already understands.
Or stay in Lightroom Classic — Solvenar Search… sits in the Library menu.
TYPOS FORGIVEN · ONE MULTILINGUAL MODEL — ASK IN THE LANGUAGE YOU THINK IN
+ LIGHTROOM PLUGIN DIALOG · TO BE CAPTURED FROM THE APP
Find the second.
Drop it on the timeline.
Ask for the moment she blows out the candles — or where anyone says "Barcelona". You land on the scene, not the file.
Select your moments and export — FCPXML, Premiere XML or Resolve EDL, with in/out points set and the files pointing at your originals where they already are.
Or never leave the edit: search from the Solvenar panel inside Premiere, or the script in Resolve Studio.
SPEECH SEARCH IS BUNDLED & ON-DEVICE — LANGUAGE AUTO-DETECTED
FREE RESOLVE: USE FCPXML / EDL · THE RESOLVE SCRIPT NEEDS RESOLVE STUDIO
TO BE CAPTURED FROM THE APP
TO BE CAPTURED FROM THE APP
Your files, wherever they already are.
Link Apple Photos in place — zero downloads. Choose how deep it reads: metadata, camera shots only, or everything.
Point it at that old external drive. Unplug it mid-catalogue and the job parks — it resumes where it stopped, and everything already read stays searchable from the shelf.
Trips form themselves on an offline world map. A wrong camera clock gets caught and offered a fix; shots it can't place land in a review queue, not on a guess. Watch a roll get placed →
And June at the lake just works. Faces stay on your Mac — and stay optional.
EVENTS ARE DATE + PLACE, NOT AI-TITLED · NEW FILES PICKED UP ON THE NEXT IDLE RESCAN
Nothing to import. Nothing to reorganize.
A catalogue that only ever reads. Your originals never move, never get renamed, and never get locked inside a library file.
Point Solvenar at the folders you already have — the tidy ones and the one called Camera Uploads. Link Apple Photos too, if that's where your life is. It reads them where they sit and picks up new work each time it rescans.
Delete Solvenar tomorrow and every file is exactly where you left it.
Some work can't go to the cloud.
Media analysis and search run on your Mac. Your photos, catalogue, face data and searches are never sent anywhere — there is no server to send them to. The network is for the ordinary things: fetching the models at setup, checkout, checking for updates.
Pay once. Search forever.
One-time licences, no subscription, everything on your Mac. The first 500 licences get the early-bird price and lifetime updates. After that, each licence includes a year of updates — and your last eligible version keeps working forever.
The honest part.
Can I search a drive that isn't plugged in?
Yes. Solvenar keeps its own thumbnails, so everything it has read stays searchable with the drive on the shelf. Results from that drive wear an OFFLINE badge — click it to hide everything you can’t open right now. Plug the drive back in and the originals open — nothing to re-scan.
Will this touch my files?
Not unless you ask it to. Cataloguing only ever reads: your originals never move, never get renamed, and never get locked inside a library file. The one exception is deliberate — select shots and choose Move to Trash, and they go to the macOS Trash, RAW siblings included, where you can still get them back. It commits its notes item by item, resumes if your Mac restarts, and recognises a file by its content even after you move it. Delete Solvenar tomorrow and every file is exactly where you left it.
How long does the first read 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 whether your Mac has a fan, the level of your chip, and how big the library is.
I use iCloud Photos with "Optimize Mac Storage." Will it work?
Yes. Link your Apple Photos library and Solvenar reads the versions Photos already keeps on your disk, so your originals are not re-downloaded — a 200 GB library on a 512 GB Mac works without evicting anything. Files sitting in an iCloud Drive folder are different: those originals do come down on the first read, one file at a time, and you can ask Solvenar to warn you before it downloads anything.
Does the map need an internet connection?
No. The world map ships inside the app, so panning, trips and the timeline all work with the network unplugged. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Why doesn't it run on my Intel Mac?
Solvenar runs modern vision models on your Mac, and it leans on the unified memory of Apple's M-series chips to do it. If your Mac's chip has an M in its name, you're good.