Built a photo search app for Windows that I wanted to share here.
The problem it solves: large photo libraries are nearly impossible to navigate by folders alone. Pitara indexes the metadata already embedded in your photos and lets you search in plain English. Results come back in under half a second.
Queries that work out of the box:
```
summer 2019 in paris
father's day 2019
above 8000 feet with canon
from december 2021 with iphone 13 pro
sunday evenings from 10 years
weekend in peru above 12000 feet
```
**What makes it different:**
- Fully offline. No cloud, no account, no subscription
- Works with external drives. Index once and search results work even after the drive is unplugged
- Portable mode. Runs from a USB drive with no installer and no registry entries
- On-device face recognition. Groups faces without any cloud upload, name a person once and they're searchable
- Twelve catalog views built in including Places, Times, Cameras, Heights, Holidays, Faces, and People
Supports JPEG, PNG, HEIC. Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Free.