Clipto: Fully local, privacy-first natural language search for media files
By
Matthewwei
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Summary
Clipto is a fully local, privacy-focused media search tool that enables natural language search over terabytes of video, audio, meetings, and files. Founded by Henry from CMU's Robotics Institute, it automatically tags people, dialogue, and scenes so users can find specific moments by describing them. It runs entirely offline on a local machine (no cloud uploads) and can index 2TB of videos in 24 hours on a MacBook Pro M5.
Key quotes
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Think: Google Photos, but fully local.
Turn the terabytes of video, audio, meetings, and files you work with into searchable memories, without uploading anything to the cloud.
Clipto automatically tags people, dialogue, and scenes, so you can instantly find any moment buried in your media just by describing what you're looking for.
On a MacBook Pro M5, Clipto indexed 2TB of videos in just 24 hours.
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