Yes, modern mobile OSes categorize photos automatically and let you search the text on them. But the categorization is primitive, like "mountains", "documents", "screenshots", and the thing you're looking for isn't always written on the photo. The native photo gallery will never find me that photo of the wiring behind the kitchen wall. There's no text on it, and "wiring" is not a category.
So the idea was a mobile app where all these utility photos go, and I don't have to maintain them in any way - automatic categorization, with semantic search on top.
Give it a try and let me know what you think:
Website: https://keeplea.app Get the app: https://get.keeplea.app
So far it's all pretty hard. No users yet - an app like this has low "search" potential, nobody types this problem into a store search box. But I'll keep trying, as they say.
Under the hood: KMP, native UI, Firebase, Gemini, Firestore vector search.
P.S. Let me say it right away: this app wasn't vibecoded over the weekend, as people like to put it these days. Honestly, I hate the term "vibecoding". It downplays the weeks and months that go into thinking through the idea, the architecture, the experiments, the design, the marketing, etc. The fact that you use AI agents while building doesn't mean you slapped something together and spat it into production. Although, true, plenty of people nowadays do exactly that. Well, not me
Glitcher255•3h ago
BrainQuanta•1h ago
What you (and only you) decide to upload, then goes to Cloud Storage and Gemini. So the only provider your photos are shared with is Google.
But the honest part is that the data is not end-to-end encrypted. In transit and at rest, yes, but I run the project, so technically I can look. I don't and I have special machinery around my processes so that I never do this unintentionally, but that's still a promise. Do you think this would be a blocker for potential app users? What can I do if the on-device processing is not an option?
About costs. It's subscriptions, nothing else. Free tier stops at 20 captures, Pro is $9.99/month (for US, different for other countries). Processing itself is very cheap (a small fraction of a cent per photo).
Thanks!