Comment by prophesi

A quick shoutout to Ente Photos[0]. FOSS with an opt-in locally-run semantic search of your photos. The first encoding with a ton of photos may take a few minutes in the background, but after that it takes no time with subsequent photo uploads. I'm not sure why Apple is going through the trouble of uploading the photos and incorporating homomorphic encryption for something this simple, particularly with their push for local AI and their Neural Engine[2].

I also appreciate Ente's Guest View[1] that lets you select the photos you want to show someone in person on your phone to prevent the issue of them scrolling too far.

[0] https://github.com/ente-io/ente

[1] https://ente.io/blog/guest-view/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Engine