Tired of endless scrolling? Memoria is a local search engine for your camera roll. It uses on-device AI to transcribe video audio, read text in screenshots, and recognize faces and objects. No cloud, no subscriptions. Type what was said or written, it finds the media.
I always found myself scrolling for 10 minutes just to find a specific meme, a receipt, or a video clip of a friend saying a specific word. You know the exact image or video is in your phone, but you just can't find it.
Apple Photos is limited when you want to search for text or audio. Google Photos works, but it requires a monthly subscription and forces you to upload your personal life to the cloud.
I wanted a private alternative. Memoria indexes your camera roll locally.
On-device AI: It transcribes video audio and reads text in your screenshots. Just type a word spoken in a video or a sentence written on a receipt, and the app finds the media.
100% private: Everything runs locally. There is no cloud processing and you don't even need to create an account. Your data never leaves your phone.
No subscriptions: It's completely free to test on your first 250 media. If you love it, the unlimited version is a one-time purchase heavily discounted for the launch period!
It's free to test on your first 250 media. If you love it, the unlimited version is a one-time purchase, and it's heavily discounted for the launch period!
I will be here all day to answer your questions. I’d be curious to know what is the hardest type of media for you to find in your camera roll right now?
It's a useful feature in theory. But why can't I cancel a model download (if it seems like it's taking a long time to download) The overall download progress isn't visible. Although there is an onboarding process, I don't understand why the app couldn't find the photo... It's not very clear how to use it—I didn't want to delve into it.
Hey @anasouh , one thing I keep thinking about with local search: if the OCR or the transcription doesn't get a clean read, the media is still indexed, just with nothing useful attached to it. So the user searches, gets zero results, and can't tell whether the media isn't there or whether the text just didn't come through. Have you found a way to surface that difference, or does it mostly not come up in practice?
How much space does the data take up? Is it reuploading the photos and videos to the app? I have a lot of media in my Photos app. Could it handle large libraries?
The receipt example sold me, that is the exact search Apple Photos fails at. Doing it fully on device is also the harder engineering path, and the one that means I never have to wonder what a server saw. Where does the offline model start to struggle, handwriting or accents?
honestly, screenshots of text conversations - I take one to remember an address or a plan someone mentioned, then a week later I can't find it because I don't remember which app it came from or what day. video audio search is the feature that would actually solve that for me since half the time it was said out loud, not typed. question on the on-device part: does the model that does the transcription/face recognition ship with the app, or does it pull something down on first launch? asking because I've got an older iPhone and "100% offline" sometimes quietly means "downloads a few hundred MB the first time you open it."
About Memoria on Product Hunt
“Search photos by text, speech, object & faces. 100% offline.”
Memoria launched on Product Hunt on August 25th, 2026 and earned 149 upvotes and 12 comments, placing #6 on the daily leaderboard. Tired of endless scrolling? Memoria is a local search engine for your camera roll. It uses on-device AI to transcribe video audio, read text in screenshots, and recognize faces and objects. No cloud, no subscriptions. Type what was said or written, it finds the media.
Memoria was featured in Productivity (659.1k followers), Privacy (11.3k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (476.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 280.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Memoria?
Memoria was hunted by Anas. 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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Anas
Hey everyone! I'm Anas, the maker of Memoria.
I always found myself scrolling for 10 minutes just to find a specific meme, a receipt, or a video clip of a friend saying a specific word. You know the exact image or video is in your phone, but you just can't find it.
Apple Photos is limited when you want to search for text or audio. Google Photos works, but it requires a monthly subscription and forces you to upload your personal life to the cloud.
I wanted a private alternative. Memoria indexes your camera roll locally.
On-device AI: It transcribes video audio and reads text in your screenshots. Just type a word spoken in a video or a sentence written on a receipt, and the app finds the media.
100% private: Everything runs locally. There is no cloud processing and you don't even need to create an account. Your data never leaves your phone.
No subscriptions: It's completely free to test on your first 250 media. If you love it, the unlimited version is a one-time purchase heavily discounted for the launch period!
It's free to test on your first 250 media. If you love it, the unlimited version is a one-time purchase, and it's heavily discounted for the launch period!
I will be here all day to answer your questions. I’d be curious to know what is the hardest type of media for you to find in your camera roll right now?