AI-powered keywords for Apple Photos, 100% on your Mac
Most AI photo taggers upload your images to the cloud or bolt on as a separate tool. Tag Your Photos doesn't: -100% on-device (Gemma 4 12B via Apple MLX) — no cloud, no upload - Works directly on your Photos library — no exporting, no duplicates - Keywords land in Spotlight system-wide — searchable right from the iPhone/iPad home screen, not just inside the app - Stays general when unsure — no falsely specific guesses
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Maik, an indie developer building macOS apps around local, on-device AI. Tag Your Photos actually started with a question from a user in r/ApplePhotos — they were looking for something like this for Apple Photos specifically. That question gave me the idea, and the sense that there might be real demand for it, so I built it.
It's the sibling app to my other project, Photo Assisted Keywords (PAK), which does the same AI keyword tagging for stock photographers working with folders and sidecar files. TYPh takes the same idea and wires it directly into your Apple Photos library — no exporting, no cloud, nothing leaves your Mac. It runs Gemma 4 12B locally via Apple MLX, and the keywords it writes are searchable system-wide through Spotlight, even from your iPhone/iPad home screen.
I'd love to hear what you think, and I'm around all day to answer questions — technical or otherwise. 🙏
About Tag Your Photos on Product Hunt
“AI-powered keywords for Apple Photos, 100% on your Mac”
Tag Your Photos launched on Product Hunt on July 28th, 2026 and earned 96 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #23 on the daily leaderboard. Most AI photo taggers upload your images to the cloud or bolt on as a separate tool. Tag Your Photos doesn't: -100% on-device (Gemma 4 12B via Apple MLX) — no cloud, no upload - Works directly on your Photos library — no exporting, no duplicates - Keywords land in Spotlight system-wide — searchable right from the iPhone/iPad home screen, not just inside the app - Stays general when unsure — no falsely specific guesses
On the analytics side, Tag Your Photos competes within Photography, Artificial Intelligence and Apple — topics that collectively have 633.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Tag Your Photos performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Tag Your Photos?
Tag Your Photos was hunted by Maik David. 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.
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