Bookmarker
Your library. On your Mac. Sorted by on-device AI.
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Your library. On your Mac. Sorted by on-device AI.
14 followers
A personal library that lives on your Mac. Save links, images, and PDFs; on-device AI sorts them. Private by default. One-time payment. Yours forever.
How well does the on-device AI handle large libraries, and does it work fully offline or does it still need to ping any servers for sorting?
@tuncay3nr6 On-device Foundation models surprisingly work great, and scale well. I've got a large library with thousands of records, imported, analyzed and sorted, and it stays fast and smooth. As I've mentioned before, the advantage of being offline and local-first is there's no network latency. Your whole library lives in a local SQLite database, so sorting and browsing never touch a serve. It's a local query, so thousands of items sort instantly with zero network round-trip.
Sorting is 100% offline, always. The AI runs on Apple's on-device Foundation models, so tagging and summaries happen locally too; no cloud, no data leaving your Mac. New links get auto-tagged as you add them.
Exceptions to "fully offline": fetching a page's metadata/article when you first save a link needs the network (it's scraping the live page), and if you're on a Mac without Apple Intelligence, the AI falls back to a bring-your-own cloud key. But the core; your library, sorting, reading, search, all works offline.
One more exception: image analysis needs a Gemini key and network to generate titles, descriptions, usage ideas, color palettes and tags.
But Apple's Foundation models will keep improving, and eventually we'll have offline image analysis too.
Thanks Tuncay.
saved a bunch of articles and let the auto-sort do its thing overnight, woke up to my stuff actually organized by topic without me lifting a finger. love that nothing leaves my laptop.
@sercanpcke Thanks Sercan.
Does the on-device AI still keep working properly if I save a few thousand bookmarks over time, or does it start to lag?