Curlo: A privacy-first macOS app for searching local sound libraries by natural language description
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Summary
Curlo is a native macOS app that allows users to search their local sound libraries by describing what they want to hear (e.g., "heavy rain on a tin roof" or "gentle piano melody"). Built by a part-time audiobook post-production editor, the app analyzes audio content locally on the Mac for privacy, enabling natural language search without needing filenames. It also supports previewing, organizing, editing metadata, managing tags, and searching for similar sounds — all fully offline.
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Curlo analyzes the audio content locally on your Mac, then lets you find sounds by natural language.
The search does not need the file to already have metadata or tags.
Curlo is a privacy-first macOS app for searching, previewing, and organizing large sound libraries. Find SFX or music by describing what you want to hear, search for similar sounds, edit metadata & UCS, manage tags, and keep everything fully local on your
