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SOOTY

A fast, native asset manager for Mac, built in Rust

A native Mac asset manager built in Rust. Preview photos, RAW, video, 3D and PDFs, open 100,000 items in 0.14 s, and find any image by describing it with on-device AI.

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SOOTY is a fast asset manager for Mac, built in Rust. Version 1.1.1 is out now.

  • Images, video, audio, 3D models, fonts, PDFs, spreadsheets and PSDs in one library

  • A 100,000-item library opens in 0.14 s

  • Describe a picture and find it in 6 ms. Search the text inside images, find similar ones, get tag suggestions. The AI runs on your Mac, and nothing is uploaded.

  • Right-click any image on a web page to save it

  • Claude, Codex and Cursor can organize your library over MCP. SOOTY asks before anything changes, and you can undo it.

  • Plugins do more: save as WebP, score photo sharpness, detect BPM and key, read camera settings

Measured on Apple M1 Max with 100,000 items. Search time is the median.

Available now for Mac with Apple silicon (macOS 14 or later)

Windows and Linux versions are coming soon.

About SOOTY on Product Hunt

“A fast, native asset manager for Mac, built in Rust”

SOOTY was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #345 on the daily leaderboard. A native Mac asset manager built in Rust. Preview photos, RAW, video, 3D and PDFs, open 100,000 items in 0.14 s, and find any image by describing it with on-device AI.

On the analytics side, SOOTY competes within Windows, Mac and Design Tools — topics that collectively have 380.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how SOOTY performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.

Who hunted SOOTY?

SOOTY was hunted by Erian. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.

For a complete overview of SOOTY including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.