Queryable Reviews

This looked like an interesting app and I liked that the developer took the time to respond to reviews so I installed on my iPad.

It took about over an hour for Queryable to index all my 4,200 photos. If I tried using my iPad while it indexed the photos the process stopped and I had to restart once again. 🥱

Once finished I tried a simple search, Queryable crashed immediately. I restarted Queryable and tried a dozen more times and got the same results. 🙁

So basically I have lost several hours of my life on this non-functioning app and now I’m concerned that now all my photos have been accessed that they may have been uploaded and are out there for the world to see. 😬

Maybe the developer is working on the bugs but for now it’s a no-go for me.

Update: The developer sent a response asking did I read the description before downloading? Suggestions the chip on my iPad is not new enough, even though it runs every other app with no issues whatsoever.

It would be nice if it worked as well on mac as it does on iOS. Help?

Many, many false positives, but catches many true hits that Apple’s Photos app misses.

Please check this bugs

Nick App!

The version in China App Store will be taken down due to so called ‘regulation’, sooner or later.

I love Queryable. Works great on mac/iOS. Fast and accurate. I also appreciate the offline design. Thank you for caring about our privacy.

If I could ask for a feature, it would to be work with arbitrary folders on MacOS (not just the photos library).

Either way, thank you.

Really cool to see what a more refined image search implementation can look like on apple products. Queryable on its own seems more like a demonstration of the tech to me than a utility I’ll find myself using regularly but I’m going to keep it for those times when photos search fails me. I hope apple ultimately decides to build their search around this tech and keep their models updated so that everybody can benefit from better search.

Thanks to the developer for showing us a practical application of AI!

Great app for searching photos. The only thing that’s missing is multiple select. Please add this feature. Users will be able to search and remove unwanted photos from the library much faster than with stock photos app.

This is a desperately needed tool when you have thousands of images to search through. My main gripe is that it doesn’t let me go from the search result to the photo in my album, for some reason.

Read about this on HN.

Love that it doesn’t require network privileges.

Works well on my iPhone 13. Wish that I could swipe left and right afyer selecting a photo from search, but hopefully this gets resolved in future!

I’ve realized it’s surprisingly often I need a very specific photo that Apple Photos or Google Photos just can’t handle with its basic object search. But this app is able to handle these complex scenarios nearly every time! “Pizza box secured to a bicycle with cargo straps”? - got it! “Black cat loafing on a piece of styrofoam”? - no problem! And entirely locally?? Super impressive.

Apple really needs to hire the person behind Queryable and integrate it into Apple Photos.

Improvements
- hard to look at each image (can’t swipe left or right, must tap each image)
- no way to open the image in the photos app after finding it
- no way to share the image from Queryable
- can’t zoom in

Mostly just stuff centered around the image viewer. There should be some open-source library you can use for this.

Best of luck, and thank you

Just a fantastic app, search works super well and the developer has implemented most of the features I’ve wanted out of Queryable. Great job!

Does what it says on the tin, very quickly!

Saw on HackerNews and thought I would give it a shot. I am on an iPhone 12 Pro and it maybe took 30 seconds to index roughly 2,200 images. The ability to search for a described scene is fast and performs well. I had some false negatives, but the result set always had the photo I was describing in it. Are the photos ordered by similarity to the query? It would be nice to order results by timestamp or filter by location.

Queryable is exactly what I’ve been looking for to search through my 20,000-photo library. Often I have a specific photo I’ve taken in my mind, but I don’t remember when. Queryable lets me search for it even on the subway. With the recent support for image similarity search, this is a must-buy for anyone who wants good tools to sort through their photos.

very nice Queryable.tnx dev

I bought this because I was interested in the technology (read about it on HN) but Queryable has been surprisingly useful. I have a lot of photos on my phone, and it’s great to be able to find photos containing an object. I use it about once every two weeks. I wish the native Photos search was this good. I also appreciate that all of the machine learning is done on device in a privacy preserving way. Apple should buy Queryable.