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Omni – Local Semantic Search for Your Mac

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Omni is a native macOS app that provides fast, local semantic search across all file types—including text, code, images, audio, and video—using an on-device embedding model running fully offline on Apple Silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later. It indexes user-selected folders into a local vector database allowing queries by meaning rather than keywords, supports multilingual search, displays folder contents as similarity-based maps, and offers a local API for AI agents, all while preserving privacy with no data leaving the Mac. The app features extensive search filtering, keyboard navigation, incremental updating, and configurable performance and storage options to optimize indexing and search workflows.

https://hanxiao.io/omni/

Permute – Media Converter for macOS

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Permute 4 is a macOS-native media converter by Charlie Monroe Software that supports over 100 formats, enabling users to convert, edit, and manage video, audio, images, PDFs, and text files with a simple drag-and-drop interface. It offers advanced features like trimming, cropping, subtitle addition, hardware-accelerated encoding, and smart tools such as OCR and text-to-audio narration, all without subscription via a one-time $14.99 license. Permute 4 emphasizes ease of use alongside professional capabilities and integrates tightly with the Mac ecosystem to streamline media workflows.

https://software.charliemonroe.net/permute/

macOS RC — Orion RC 1.0.8.147.4 ✴︎ June 18, 2026

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The update includes numerous improvements and bug fixes such as resolving issues with .local URLs recognition, window positioning, password saving to the Orion keychain, and tab group functionality. Enhancements were made to sync error handling, extension popup sizing, and macOS 27 compatibility, along with new features like a per-site Container Tabs setting and an option to inherit parent tab containers for child tabs. Several visual glitches, translation problems, and usability bugs, including those affecting the sidebar, location bar, and autofill password suggestions, were also addressed.

https://orionbrowser.com/updates/orion-rc-release-notes.html#macos-orion-1-0-8-147-4

Chat With YouTube Videos

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Raindrop.io's Stella now reads full transcripts of saved YouTube videos, allowing users to ask for summaries, key points, translations, or specific details without watching the video. This update expands Stella's capability to handle all saved content formats—articles, PDFs, web pages, and videos—enabling quick, versatile interaction with library content. The feature runs on Raindrop.io’s servers with privacy safeguards and is currently in beta for Pro members.

https://blog.raindrop.io/stella-youtube/

GitHub – Mysk-Research/loupe: a Privacy-Focused iOS App That Raises Awareness About What Native Apps Can See

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Loupe is a privacy-focused iOS and iPadOS app that reveals the types of device information accessible to native apps through public iOS APIs, demonstrating how this data collectively creates a device fingerprint for tracking. It categorizes data access into passive (no prompt), permission-based, and advanced side-channel signals, showing users exactly what their device exposes without sending any data off-device. The app is open source, built mainly using AI coding tools, and aims to raise awareness about app tracking practices on Apple devices.

https://github.com/mysk-research/loupe

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