AnalysisOpinion / analysisRetrieval, RAG & Search · Large Language Models · Speech & Audio1 source · Oct 10, 2026

Open-source Mac app that runs EmbeddingGemma 2 locally to search your files by what’s in them

DigUp is a free Mac app that runs Google DeepMind’s new EmbeddingGemma 2 locally over your own files.

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Key points

  • The model puts text, images, audio and video in one space, so you describe what you remember and land on it:
  • “where they talk about sleep” jumps to that minute of a podcast
  • It’s ggml-org’s Q80 GGUF (865 MB, downloaded once) on llama.cpp with Metal, inside a native Swift app; no Python.
  • Searching loads only the text encoder (~250 MB) and shows results about a tenth of a second after you stop typing.

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