Image Semantic Search Embedding Tools

Tools for searching, matching, and deduplicating images using embeddings and semantic similarity. Includes text-to-image search, image-to-image search, and visual clustering. Does NOT include face recognition, general image classification, or video frame analysis as primary use cases.

There are 75 image semantic search tools tracked. 2 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is unum-cloud/UForm at 58/100 with 1,221 stars and 2,280 monthly downloads.

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#	Tool	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	unum-cloud/UForm Pocket-Sized Multimodal AI for content understanding and generation across...	58	Established	1,221	Python
2	rom1504/clip-retrieval Easily compute clip embeddings and build a clip retrieval system with them	56	Established	2,733	Jupyter Notebook
3	mazzzystar/Queryable Run OpenAI's CLIP and Apple's MobileCLIP model on iOS to search photos.	49	Emerging	2,924	Swift
4	Ubaida-M-Yusuf/Makimus-AI AI-powered media search — find images and videos using natural language or...	41	Emerging	65	Python
5	s-emanuilov/litepali LitePali is a minimal, efficient implementation of ColPali for image...	40	Emerging	122	Python
6	HEGOM61ita/OffGallery Catalogatore AI di immagini fotografiche · Compatibile con Lightroom — Tag...	36	Emerging	6	Python
7	slavabarkov/tidy Offline semantic Text-to-Image and Image-to-Image search on Android powered...	34	Emerging	553	Kotlin
8	cloudera/CML_AMP_Image_Analysis Build a semantic search application with deep learning models.	33	Emerging	15	Jupyter Notebook
9	marqo-ai/marqo-FashionCLIP State-of-the-art CLIP/SigLIP embedding models finetuned for the fashion...	33	Emerging	124	Python
10	TheD0ubleC/StickerSelector StickerSelector 是一个基于语义向量匹配的表情包选择系统，用于让 AI 在聊天中发送真正符合语境的表情包。 ...	32	Emerging	22	Python
11	fguzman82/CLIP-Finder2 CLIP-Finder enables semantic offline searches of images from gallery photos...	31	Emerging	90	Swift
12	Ravn-Tech/HyperTag HyperTag - Intuitive Knowledge Management WebApp & CLI for Humans using Deep...	31	Emerging	196	Python
13	code2k13/philately-tool A tool that helps philatelists digitize their albums.	30	Emerging	2	Python
14	johntharian/search A powerful semantic image search application that helps you find images in...	28	Experimental	1	JavaScript
15	binaryLady/eventlens AI-powered event photo gallery. Point it at a Google Drive folder, run the...	27	Experimental	1	TypeScript
16	ps-auxw/CLI-P CLI-P is commandline driven semantic image search using OpenAI's CLIP	27	Experimental	6	Python
17	con636/PicFinder-AI 🔍 Search your local images effortlessly with PicFinder AI, a privacy-focused...	27	Experimental	1	Vue
18	isaac-chung/nextpick A web app that help users pick their next insta-vacation destinations.	26	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
19	ItzCrazyKns/Neon-Image-Search Search for similar images using NeonDB and Vertex AI.	26	Experimental	54	TypeScript
20	astrowonk/emoji_finder Semantic emoji finder. Python/dash UI. Uses sentence transformer embeddings...	25	Experimental	19	Python
21	gustaveroussy/prismtoolbox Toolbox for histopathology image analysis	24	Experimental	7	Python
22	KristianMSchmidt/semantic-art-search Semantic Art Search – Explore art through meaning-driven search	24	Experimental	13	Python
23	rokeller/photo-search Semantic search on photos	23	Experimental	1	TypeScript
24	surya501/reverse-image-search Deeplearing based Reverse Image Search using Annoy library	23	Experimental	15	Jupyter Notebook
25	doomL/nimbus-semantic-search Nimbus — self-hosted semantic photo search over WebDAV (pCloud-friendly)....	23	Experimental	1	HTML
26	DRSY/MoTIS [NAACL 2022]Mobile Text-to-Image search powered by multimodal semantic...	22	Experimental	126	Swift
27	badrex/emojeez AI-powered semantic search engine for emojis in 50+ languages, developed in Python	22	Experimental	39	Python
28	aashishyadavally/rubrix Combined semantic similarity search based visual search engine.	22	Experimental	7	CSS
29	arcnem-ai/picvec Local-first image similarity search CLI	22	Experimental	—	Go
30	dbhavery/cortex AI Media Cataloger — BLIP captioning, InsightFace face clustering, Google...	22	Experimental	—	Python
31	bnarasimha21/ai-image-search Semantic image search engine powered by AI embeddings and vector similarity	22	Experimental	—	—
32	droon/CLIP-database A searchable image database using SigLIP 2 (CLIP) embeddings and SQLite-vec...	21	Experimental	2	Python
33	paperClub-hub/chinese_clip 中文CLIP：自定义数据集，可根据文图提取向量，实现文图匹配。	21	Experimental	22	Python
34	lexg-colorado/SImSS-LMSTUDIO Semantic Image Search System (LM Studio Edition) - Local-first image search...	21	Experimental	—	Python
35	Uni-Creator/SmartGallery SmartGallery is a desktop app that organizes and searches large photo...	21	Experimental	2	Python
36	systemoutprintlnnnn/emomo 基于 Go 的表情包语义搜索与采集系统，集成 Qdrant 向量检索、VLM 描述生成与文本嵌入，支持多数据源摄入和 S3/R2 对象存储的 API 服务。	20	Experimental	1	Go
37	FLiiiNTIK/image-sorter Desktop app for intelligent image sorting using DINOv2, SigLIP2, and WD...	20	Experimental	1	Python
38	mdjamilkashemporosh/clip-sense Clip-Sense is a semantic search engine that helps you find the most relevant...	20	Experimental	1	TypeScript
39	brainsqueeze/semantic-photos Semantic search for photo libraries	19	Experimental	6	Python
40	jarvisx17/OpenAI-Clip-Image-Search Open AI Clip + Faiss Image Semantic search	19	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
41	Silver595/ShadowBox A privacy-first, offline image search engine powered by AI. Search your...	19	Experimental	—	Python
42	ashvardanian/usearch-images Semantic Search demo featuring UForm, USearch, UCall, and StreamLit, to...	19	Experimental	54	Python
43	lexg-colorado/SImSS A local-first semantic image search system using vision-language models	19	Experimental	—	Python
44	gzomer/clip-multilingual Multilingual CLIP - Semantic Image Search in 100 languages	19	Experimental	8	Python
45	d1pankarmedhi/image-search-engine 🔎 A vector based image search engine using Visual Transformer model type.	18	Experimental	8	Python
46	Abhash-Chakraborty/Find A local-first, AI-powered image search engine. Find your photos using...	18	Experimental	3	Python
47	spartanhaden/visio-voyager Local semantic image search	17	Experimental	6	Python
48	zer0int/ComfyUI-Nuke-a-Text-Encoder For SDXL, SD1.5, Flux. Nuke T5 and let CLIP guide Flux.1 on its own! Or let...	17	Experimental	25	Python
49	DewduSendanayake/Semantic-Pet-Vision A lightweight semantic image search engine for cats and dogs, built using...	17	Experimental	2	Python
50	Jamster3000/Scout AI-powered visual search for image libraries. Find images using natural...	16	Experimental	1	Python
51	rubydotexe/rao-search An image gallery that generates captions and tags and semantic searching...	15	Experimental	—	Python
52	srinadhu/Semantic-Visual-Search Semantic Visual Search: Given an image, retrieve semantically similar looking images.	15	Experimental	2	Python
53	emapco/ai-powered-media-gallery Locally-Hosted Media Gallery App with AI Similarity Search	15	Experimental	—	TypeScript
54	stephenhsklarew/HeadlineImageSelector AI-powered tool to match brand-approved images with content using CLIP embeddings	15	Experimental	—	Python
55	HQarroum/piaggio 🏍️ A clustering tool providing exact and near de-duplication of images using...	15	Experimental	5	Python
56	ankitjosh78/VisionText Multi-modal image search using SigLIP embeddings and Qdrant. Upload images...	15	Experimental	1	Python
57	marc-162/visual-kb Multimodal semantic search for local photo libraries using Gemini Embedding...	14	Experimental	—	Python
58	ctx-0/localimgsearch local image embeddings, search, de-duplication	14	Experimental	—	HTML
59	phronmophobic/clip.clj CLIP Embeddings for images and text. A clojure wrapper for clip.cpp.	13	Experimental	6	Clojure
60	abhineetgupta/synology-photos-nlp-search Search through Synology Photos using natural language captions	13	Experimental	8	Python
61	omiii18/ai-image-search DeepSearch AI: Find local images instantly using text prompts or...	13	Experimental	—	Python
62	jarvis0/image-search 🌄 Search images through text by writing a caption or a description. You will...	13	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
63	Creative-Geek/Searchable-Screenshots A Python application that indexes and enables fast searching of your...	13	Experimental	—	Python
64	marnibrewster/textile-pattern-recommender A multimodal similarity search tool for textile patterns. Embeds 10,000+...	12	Experimental	1	Python
65	jacobmarks/emoji_search Semantically Search Emojis From the Command Line!	12	Experimental	13	Python
66	shmulikhau/album-photo-selector An assitant to Album Photo Selecting powered by AI	12	Experimental	1	Python
67	Podargos37/ai-tag-gallery AI-powered local image gallery with auto-tagging (WD-v3) and semantic vector search.	12	Experimental	1	TypeScript
68	ysocrius/xray-semantic-search A semantic search engine for X-ray images supporting text queries and...	11	Experimental	—	Python
69	surajrao2003/semantic_search_clip_faiss I built this project to learn how semantic search works using CLIP and...	11	Experimental	—	JavaScript
70	Heapnotizer/SpotMyFile AI-powered desktop tool for semantic file and image search using text, face,...	11	Experimental	—	Python
71	evans901/clip-film-embeddings CLIP ViT-L/14 embeddings over film frames with UMAP/TSNE, KMeans/HDBSCAN,...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
72	SharvenRane/image-search-engine Semantic image search engine using dense visual embeddings and approximate...	11	Experimental	—	Python
73	balewgize/image-similarity-checker Find duplicate and similar images using AI embeddings.	11	Experimental	—	Python
74	KordelFranceTech/Olfaction-Vision-Language-Embeddings-Models Contrastive Olfaction-Language-Image Pre-training Model. The first-ever...	11	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
75	Bessouat40/photo-gallery-viewer This project is a photo gallery app 🎨 It leverages a CLIP model for...	10	Experimental	1	TypeScript

Comparisons in this category

Queryable and CLIP-Finder2 (49 vs 31)