omni-macos: A Fully Local Semantic Finder for Apple Silicon, Now Daily-Driver Good
JinaAI_ · x · 2026-10-06
Jina AI's hxiao has kept improving omni-macos, a fully local on-device semantic Finder for Apple Silicon: a multimodal search engine usable by both humans and agents with real-time CRUD. Despite years of embedding/reranker experience and coding-agent-assisted optimization, making it truly good proved hard; he argues similar projects like zvec-grep optimize with a SaaS mindset that misses key constraints of air-gapped personal devices.
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