AePix

First you download the app for Apple Silicon, an Intel Mac or Windows x64 and import files or folders. New assets appear while scanning and processing advance, and background tasks can be paused, resumed, cancelled or retried where supported.

Second you organize. Manual albums group project selections, and an asset can sit in several albums at once without losing its existing memberships. Star ratings mark priority, favorites give quick access, tags record subjects and color labels mark your own workflow stages. Smart collections save rules rather than a fixed selection, using format, minimum rating, favorites and review state, and multiple assets can be rated, labelled or added to albums in one step.

Third you search. You pick a mode: filename search, which matches all or part of a name without an AI model; natural language, which queries the local semantic index; search by image, which uses a reference image to find similar ones; or OCR, which recognizes text in supported images. Filters by media type, format, orientation, tags, color labels, rating and date combine with any of them, and results sort by date, name or file size.

Finally you put the assets to work: compress images or batch-convert formats for design and delivery, or send a selected image to a supported cloud tool for generation or editing and spend credits on that task only.

• •Local Natural-Language Search - Describe an image in plain words and AePix searches a semantic index stored on your machine. It is available on the free plan, and the site notes that results depend on completed indexing and on the model.
• •Reverse Image Search and OCR - The Standard and Premium plans add search by a reference image and local text recognition for supported images. Both run locally and do not use cloud image-task credits.
• •Albums, Tags and Smart Collections - Project albums with recognizable covers, multi-album membership, tags, ratings, favorites, color labels and rule-based smart collections keep context attached to each asset, with bulk actions to apply them to many files at once.
• •Stills and Motion Together - Photos, videos, supported Apple Live Photos and Android Motion Photos share one library. Videos that cannot play directly can use a cached compatible preview without changing the original, and an inspector shows metadata such as dimensions, duration, resolution and codec.
• •Flexible Browsing - Masonry, portrait, landscape and square layouts with adjustable thumbnail sizes make it easier to compare candidates, and zoom and video playback let you check a file before deciding.
• •Image Preparation and Optional Cloud AI - Built-in compression and batch format conversion cover basic preparation, and cloud AI tools for image generation or editing are available with credits. The pricing page estimates about 8 credits per image at a 1K generation or editing reference cost.

AePix is aimed at designers, content producers and other creators who keep large local folders of references, screenshots, downloads and project assets and lose time finding the right image again. Being able to type a description rather than remember a file name is the main draw, and the free plan covers personal libraries of up to 50,000 assets with local natural-language search.

People who work with mixed media, such as a creator who saves both stills and short clips, or someone with a phone library full of Apple Live Photos or Android Motion Photos, can browse and review them in one workspace rather than across separate apps.

Users who care about privacy or work offline may prefer that organizing and searching happen locally, without uploading the whole library first, and that cloud processing is a separate, opt-in step for individual images. Larger archives fit the paid plans: Standard raises the limit to 500,000 assets and adds reverse image search and OCR, and Premium removes the plan-imposed asset limit and includes more cloud AI credits each month.