स्मृति · smṛti — “that which is remembered”

Every memory, lovingly kept.

हर याद, संजोई हुई।

The photos and videos on that drive in your drawer, turned into a real library — timeline, people, places, trips, search that understands the picture and reads the words in it, and all of it on your phone over your own Wi‑Fi. Computed on your own machine. Nothing uploaded, no account.

Nothing uploaded, ever Originals never moved Works offline Seven days free, then ₹499 once
Smriti: one window with a sidebar, a date-grouped photo grid, and an Info panel showing the selected photo's camera and place.
Smriti itself. Light and dark follow your system — this page does too. The library shown is built from public photographs.
01

It never phones home.

Faces, search, places — all worked out on your CPU. The app's own server never leaves 127.0.0.1.

02

Your folders stay yours.

Files are only ever read. The library is built on top of the folders you already have, not instead of them.

03

Browse with the drive unplugged.

Thumbnails live on your computer. Plug the drive back in for the originals; nothing goes missing while it's away.

See it

This is Smriti.

Real screenshots of the real app, in whichever theme your system is in. Click a tab, or use the arrow keys.

Smriti's Photos view: a date-grouped grid of 174 photos with the Info panel open.
Every photo, grouped by the day it was taken. Smooth at six figures.
Features

Every way back in.

One folder in, a whole library out. The parts that read the photographs are paid; everything else is free, always.

Search Paid Reads Hindi too

Type what the photo shows. “Sunset over the sea” finds it. A name, a place or a year in the query is answered exactly from the index; only the words left over go to a small vision model on your CPU. And now the words in the photo too: a receipt, a sign, a menu, a screenshot — read once on your machine, found by what they say, there in the Info panel to copy out. Hindi as well, with one more small model. And a search worth keeping becomes an album that asks it again every time you open it.

People Paid

Faces found and grouped on your own CPU. Name them once. A mix-up is one right-click to fix, and the fix survives regrouping.

Places Paid

Named offline from GPS, on a globe that fetches no tiles. A photo's location is never sent anywhere to be looked up.

Moments Paid

A trip turned into a minute you can watch: the sharpest shots, faces kept in frame, blinks left out, crossfaded to music the app composes itself. An ordinary .mp4 you can send. It offers them unasked — today in earlier years, a person over time, a city.

Events

Trips found automatically from gaps in your timeline, titled by the city and the dates. No tagging, no albums to make first — a weekend away is already a thing you can open.

Photobook Paid

An album laid out as pages and saved as a PDF — a cover, captions, the best shots given a page to themselves. Opens anywhere, forever.

Desktop frame Paid

A small window above everything, showing one good photograph at a time. Pick whose: one person, a few, or only the photos with all of them together.

Locked

A passcode-protected section. Hidden from every other view, and it re-locks itself.

From your phone

Over Wi‑Fi: a QR code on screen, a page on the phone, photos copied straight across. Or on Windows, plug it in and copy off the cable.

Things Paid New

The library sorted by what is in the pictures, with nothing tagged: food, pets, kids, weddings, celebrations, beaches, mountains, sunsets, temples, cities, nineteen in all. The search model that already looked at every photo sorts them in a few seconds. A photo that isn't clearly any of them stays out rather than being filed wrong.

Slideshow New

The best of the library, full screen: shuffled, drifting slowly, the day and the place in one corner, the controls gone until you move. On the desk, or on the television — open the library in the TV's browser over Wi‑Fi and press play there.

On your phone New

The other direction. One button, one QR code, and the whole library opens on any phone, tablet or TV browser on your Wi‑Fi — laid out for a phone, nothing to install. Looking only: nobody on another device can change, delete or unlock a thing.

Cleanup WhatsApp forwards

One number for the space you can get back — exact copies, bursts, soft frames, screenshots, and now the WhatsApp forwards: the good-morning cards, memes and posters that arrived on WhatsApp, told apart from real photos of people. Each a review queue. In a burst of near-identical shots the sharpest is the one it keeps. Deletes to the system Trash.

Google Takeout repair

Puts back the dates and GPS Google tore out into sidecar files. Nothing re-encoded, nothing joins your library until you say so.

A real desktop app

One window: sidebar, toolbar, Info panel, status bar. The viewer goes full screen with one key. Videos scrub. Albums sit over your folders. Seventeen looks follow your system — a Halloween among them, cobwebs and all — with an accent colour and a UI size of your own, and a companion, if you like: a cat, dog, duck, ghost or bee that roams the window.

Your drive

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.
  • Nothing goes missing while a drive is offline. It waits.
Getting started

Three steps.

Install it

Python, ffmpeg and everything else is already inside. Nothing else to set up.

Point it at a folder

Plug in the drive, choose the folder. Your files are read where they are.

Let it think

It indexes in the background while you browse. The face, search and text models download once, on request, and that is the only download it ever makes.

Pricing

Seven days of everything.
Then ₹499, once.

No account, no card to start, no subscription. Time is free; understanding costs.

Free ₹0

Always. No key, no expiry, no nag.

  • Your timeline, every photo by the day it was taken.
  • Albums, videos, favourites, over the folders you already have.
  • Cleanup — the space your library can give back, WhatsApp forwards included, and the Trash to put it in.
  • From your phone, over Wi‑Fi or a cable — and on your phone, the whole library from any device at home.
  • Locked, export, Google Takeout repair, Events, Slideshow.
Download Smriti
Nothing is ever held hostage. When the trial ends, everything Smriti has already worked out stays exactly where it is — your people stay grouped, your places stay named, your library stays browsable. The paid half stops finding new things, and starts again the moment you enter a key. One payment covers one computer, and you can move it whenever you like.
Download

One installer. No account.

Nothing to configure. The seven days start on first launch.

macOS

Apple Silicon · macOS 14 or later

Download .dmg

Windows

Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit · no admin needed

Download .exe
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.

Prefer a terminal? There is a headless server too.