Brief, mostly facts

Orchard Photos finds any photo on your laptop, fully local

An open-source app built mostly with Opus 5.5. It indexes about 1k photos in 8 seconds on GPU and about 5 minutes on a basic laptop.

Read the source at reddit.com

What the research found

A Reddit developer open-sourced Orchard Photos, a fully local photo search app for Mac, Windows and Linux built mostly with Opus 5.5, with indexing speeds of 8s per 1k photos on GPU and about 5 min per 1k on a basic laptop.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

Fully local, runs on Mac, Windows and Linux 99%
Indexing 8s per 1k photos on M5 Pro GPU 98%
Built mostly with Opus 5.5 99%
Source on GitHub at chaseleantj/orchard-photos 99%

Evidence

reddit.com https://reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1x9uwwg/i_made_an_app_to_find_any_photo_on_my_laptop_with
github.com https://github.com/chaseleantj/orchard-photos

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