Sortie - your local-first pinboard ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

Sortie is a private image gallery with zero compromise on cool features. 

Point it to your photos folder and it builds a gallery you can search, filters, and organise into boards/tags.

Everything stays on your machine.

Available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

What's in it

A local and private embeddings model scans your images and allows you to search your gallery in natural language: type what you remember ("beach at sunset", "red coat") and it finds the image you were thinking about.

Pin your images to Pinterest-style boards, and get smart suggestion for other images to add!

How about family pictures? Sortie runs on-device face detection to allow you to filter your pictures by people.

You can also edit and view your image metadatas, adding descriptions, links, favorite them... and jump between related images to surf your gallery!

Not enough pictures? Well, you can also use Pinterest search and boards directly in the UI, without an account, and import images directly from there -- and even filter out AI generated images!

On top of this, the gallery is optimized to handle thousands and gigabits of images without breaking a sweat! 

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Install

macOS:  Open the `.dmg`, drag to Applications. The build is unsigned, so Gatekeeper will say the app is *damaged*. Clear the quarantine flag once and you're set:

xattr -cr /Applications/Sortie.app

Windows: Run `Sortie-Setup-<ver>.exe`. SmartScreen will complain; click **More info** → **Run anyway**.

Linux: `chmod +x Sortie-*.AppImage && ./Sortie-*.AppImage`, or install the `.deb`.

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This project was developped with the help of AI tools, reviewed and tested by me

License

MIT © Nathan Guilhot/Nighten