Local AI search for your footage
Local AI search for your footage
Reelary is a local AI video search and editing application for Windows and Mac that indexes video footage and makes it searchable by meaning rather than by filename or folder. The application runs entirely on the user's machine, with no cloud processing, no uploads, and no subscription. Its primary function is to allow users to describe a shot or a film in natural language, after which the application locates matching frames and clips across a video library and assembles them into a finished MP4 file. The built-in editor provides a script-driven timeline that users can trim, reorder, and caption, and it can generate a local AI voice-over track. The application uses a local vision-language model to embed every frame and two-second clip, generate written descriptions of each shot, and read text appearing on signs, titles, and labels. The free tier supports unlimited libraries, semantic search, smart folders, text-in-frame search, and film creation with exports capped at 720p, a light watermark, and a maximum duration of 60 seconds. The Pro tier, available as a one-time purchase of $79, adds dialogue transcription, face grouping by person, GPS-based location mapping from phones, DJI drones, and GoPros, LAN sharing for browser-based searching by other devices on the same network, NLE project export in FCPXML and EDL formats for Premiere, Final Cut, and Resolve, custom voice cloning, full-resolution exports up to 4K, unlimited length, and commercial use rights. Typical workflows involve importing a footage library, allowing the local model to index and describe all content, then searching by descriptive phrases, dialogue, people, or locations. Users can build a rough cut by describing the film they want, refining the resulting timeline, and exporting directly to MP4 or handing the project off to a traditional editing application. Reelary also operates as an MCP server with agent skills, enabling Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex to search the library and generate rough cuts in the background without the agent processing the video itself. All models, indexes, and video files remain on the local machine, and the application functions without an internet connection. The free version is available indefinitely for indexing and searching, with a 14-day refund window on the Pro purchase. On macOS, Pro is offered as a one-time in-app purchase.