Our phones store thousands of photos, screenshots, PDFs, and notes, but finding something later is surprisingly hard.
Real examples I run into:
- “Find the photo of the whiteboard where we wrote the system architecture.”
- “Show the restaurant menu photo I took last weekend.”
- “Where’s the screenshot that had the OTP backup codes?”
- “Find the PDF where the diagram explained microservices vs monolith.”
Phone search today mostly works with file names or exact words, which doesn’t help much in cases like this.
So I started building a mobile app (Android + iOS) that lets you search your phone like this:
- “photo of whiteboard architecture diagram”
- “restaurant menu picture from last week”
- “screenshot with backup codes”
It searches across:
- photos & screenshots
- PDFs
- notes
- documents
- voice recordings
Key idea:
- Fully offline
- Private (nothing leaves the phone)
- Fast semantic search
Before I go deeper building it:
Would you actually use something like this on your phone?
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