Phoaly — Local-first photo organizer - Showcase Project
Listed November 3, 2026
About Phoaly — Local-first photo organizer
Local-first Mac photo organizer: on-device search, faces, scenes, and map.
Phoaly is a local-first photo organizer for Mac. It reads the folders you already keep in Finder instead of building a separate library: no import, no cloud upload, and no account. On this Mac it indexes photos for visual search in Chinese or English, clusters people with on-device face recognition, sorts scenes, shows GPS footprints on a map, and offers a workbench to preview renames, dedupe, and moves before anything on disk changes. Requires macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon. 30-day trial, then one-time $19 (1 Mac) or $29 (2 Macs) with lifetime updates.
Project details
Website: https://phoaly.com/