LocalVideoIQ — local-first video search on Mac

Local, private search across your personal video footage by text, visuals, or speech on the Mac.

Problem

People store huge amounts of screen recordings, home videos and camera footage on their Macs, but finding a specific moment means scrubbing timelines from memory. Cloud video-understanding services exist, but they require uploading private footage and paying subscriptions — users want a local-first, no-upload alternative.

Solution

A Mac app that locally transcribes speech, extracts keyframes and builds searchable text/visual indexes, letting users find clips with natural language (e.g., 'when they said that line' or 'when that scene appeared'), returning timestamped segments without ever uploading to the cloud.

Users

Mac users with large personal/camera footage libraries: indie creators, researchers, interview journalists and developers drowning in screen recordings.

MVP

Local speech transcription with timestamps; keyframe extraction and basic visual tags; natural-language search box returning matching segments; export matches as clip bookmarks; fully offline mode

Revenue

One-time purchase or annual subscription; a Pro tier with exportable clip markers for creators.

Why now

Open local models for transcription and vision are now good enough, and Macs can run them offline; resistance to uploading private footage to the cloud keeps growing, making local-first a real differentiator.