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Pitara
Windows Photo Search — find any photo instantly in English
Pitara is a Windows photo search tool that finds any photo in your library in under half a second using plain English. No cloud upload, no account, no GPU, no subscription. Everything runs on your machine. Your photos already contain everything needed to find them. GPS location, date, camera model, altitude. Pitara reads that metadata, builds a local index using Apache Lucene, and makes your entire Windows photo library instantly searchable. Type what you remember. Results under half a second.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Naren, the maker of Pitara.
I built this because my photo collection is spread across three external drives and I could never find anything. Cloud tools were a non-starter for me. I didn't want to upload decades of personal photos to Google or Amazon. And nothing I found could handle the scale without choking.
So I spent two years building a search tool that works the other way around. Pitara reads the GPS, date, and camera data already embedded in your photos, builds a local index using Apache Lucene, and makes everything searchable in plain English. The index lives on your machine. Your photos never leave.
Some queries that work out of the box: "summer 2019 in paris", "father's day 2019", "above 8000 feet with canon", "sunday evenings from 10 years". Results come back in under half a second across terabytes of photos.
Happy to answer any questions about how it works, the Lucene schema, offline drive detection, on-device face clustering, anything. Ask away.
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About Pitara on Product Hunt
“Windows Photo Search — find any photo instantly in English”
Pitara was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #62 on the daily leaderboard. Pitara is a Windows photo search tool that finds any photo in your library in under half a second using plain English. No cloud upload, no account, no GPU, no subscription. Everything runs on your machine. Your photos already contain everything needed to find them. GPS location, date, camera model, altitude. Pitara reads that metadata, builds a local index using Apache Lucene, and makes your entire Windows photo library instantly searchable. Type what you remember. Results under half a second.
Pitara was featured in Productivity (651.7k followers), Privacy (11.1k followers) and Photography (142.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 150.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Pitara?
Pitara was hunted by Naren. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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