DigUp is a free macOS menu bar app that searches the files on your Mac by what is in them, using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 model running locally. You pick the folders it may read. DigUp then indexes pictures, screenshots, PDFs, documents, audio recordings and videos, and you find things by typing a plain description. A hit in a video or recording opens at the matching moment, and a PDF hit opens at the page. Exact strings such as invoice numbers and error codes are matched too, including text that Apple's Vision framework reads from screenshots. Code search is a separate index you switch on yourself: queries start with code: and results open at the line in editors such as Zed, VS Code, Cursor and Xcode. The README says nothing you index leaves the Mac. The app goes online to download the model once (865 MB) and for a daily update check that can be turned off, and it has no account and no telemetry. Internally it runs EmbeddingGemma 2 on llama.cpp with Metal and keeps vectors plus a keyword index in one SQLite file. It needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 14 or later. The latest release is DigUp 0.6.0.
- Stars
- 1.5K
- Language
- Swift
- License
- MIT
- Momentum
- Emerging


