What is Dotient?

Dotient is a local-first desktop application that transforms how you search and organize personal files using ML-powered visual search. Instead of relying on filenames or manual tagging, Dotient lets you describe what a file looks like in natural language and instantly finds it. Your files stay on your machine, work completely offline, and remain private at all times.

Who it's for

• Photographers & Videographers – who have thousands of shoots across hundreds of folders and need to find a specific shot by describing it, without tagging or manual sorting.
• Designers & Art Directors – who work with reference images, mood boards, and inspiration dumps, and want to use Cubbies to annotate and organize visual collections.
• Anyone With a Camera Roll – who has years of personal photos with no structure and wants to search for "beach sunset" or create a signal named "Dad" to find family photos instantly.

Key features

Visual Search

Search your entire archive using natural language. Describe what you're looking for, and Dotient finds matching files based on visual content. Signal tuning makes searches even more intelligent by learning your preferences over time.

Visualize with the Graph

View your entire archive inside a node graph where edges form based on similarity between files. The app auto-detects clusters, letting you label and organize your archive in a way that makes sense to you.

Organize with Cubbies

Group related files into Cubbies to keep your archive organized with meaningful collections. You can annotate files, create mood boards, and build to-do lists directly within each Cubby.

Signal Tuning

Fine-tune your search results by creating custom signals on the Lab page. If a file doesn't appear when you search for it, just select it, give it a label, and Dotient will detect more images like it in future searches.

What stands out

"Your files, embedded by a quantized vision model — find anything by describing what it looks like, not by guessing filenames."

This one-liner captures Dotient's core innovation: it eliminates the need for manual organization entirely. Instead of spending time tagging, renaming, or sorting files, you simply describe what you're looking for. The quantized vision model runs entirely on your machine, so your privacy is never compromised, and everything works offline. The combination of visual search, graph visualization, and signal tuning creates a system that adapts to how you think about your files, not the other way around.

Worth checking out if…

You have a large collection of images, videos, or design files that you struggle to find quickly. If you're tired of guessing filenames, maintaining complex folder hierarchies, or relying on cloud services that compromise your privacy, Dotient offers a refreshing alternative. It's especially valuable for creative professionals who work with visual assets daily, but also for anyone who wants to rediscover their personal photo library without hours of manual sorting.