The photos and videos on that external drive in your drawer — turned into a real
library you can actually browse. Computed on your own machine. No cloud, no account.
Nothing uploaded, everOriginals never movedWorks offlineOpen source
An illustration of the library view — timeline, sidebar, and the people Smriti groups for you.
That drive in your drawer
Years of photos and videos live on external SSDs and hard drives, in folders nobody
opens because there is no way through them. Smriti reads them where they sit and
builds the library on top.
Nothing is moved. Your folders stay as you arranged them; files are only ever read.
Drives are known by identity, not by letter or mount point — unplug and replug and it just works.
Browse with the drive unplugged. Thumbnails live on your computer, so the timeline still opens. Plug back in for the originals.
Nothing goes missing while a drive is offline. It waits.
Every way back in
One folder in, a whole library out.
Timeline
Every photo by date, smooth at six figures.
People
Faces found and grouped on your own CPU. Name them once.
Places
Named offline from GPS, on a globe that fetches no tiles.
Events
Trips found automatically from gaps in your timeline.
Duplicates
Exact and near-matches, with a keeper suggested. Deletes to Trash.
Google Takeout repair
Puts back the dates and GPS Google tore out. Nothing re-encoded.
Locked
Passcode-protected, hidden from every other view, re-locks itself.
Videos & albums
Posters, scrubbing, and albums over the folders you already have.
Three steps
Install it. Python, ffmpeg and everything else is already inside.
Plug in your drive and point Smriti at the folder.
Let it think. It indexes in the background while you use it.
The first folder downloads the face-recognition models — about 280 MB, once.
It is the only download Smriti ever makes.
First launch shows a security warning — the app isn't code-signed yet.
On macOS: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
On Windows: More info → Run anyway. Once only.