Batch awareness
Build useful folders across the complete collection.
SiftFind, understand, and organize your files with private local AI
Find what you need, understand what you have, and keep every file organized.
A smarter way to manage files
Sift helps you find a file when you remember its meaning but not its name. It searches filenames, document contents, and indexed images, then shows the evidence behind every result.
Sift can also make sense of a cluttered folder, propose a useful structure, and follow plain-language requests to move or rename files. It brings search, organization, and local AI models together in one simple app.
LocalFiles and models stay on your Mac
ReviewablePreview and refine changes before applying them
MultimodalSearch documents, screenshots, and images
Find what you remember
Ask in your own words and verify the evidence behind every result.
Search for a topic, an invoice, a paper, or a half-remembered phrase. Sift retrieves relevant files even when your wording does not match the filename, then shows the matching document text so you can confirm the result.
Search what is inside an image
Make screenshots searchable by visible text and visual context, not only by filename.
Enable image reading during a scan and a local vision model can index screenshots and photos. This makes it possible to find a slide, receipt, chart, or captured conversation from what appears inside it.
Organize with a sentence
Clean up a whole folder or describe exactly what you want done.
Sift looks at the complete batch and proposes categories, subfolders, and clearer filenames together. You can also ask it to move, rename, group, or trash files in plain English, then see the result in a clear before-and-after view.
Natural commands
Move, rename, group, or trash files in plain English.
One-click undo
Reverse the latest batch, including files moved to the Trash.
More than a file sorter
Sift combines understanding, retrieval, and organization in one private local workflow.
| Area | Sift | Existing file organizers |
|---|---|---|
| Core experience | Understand, find, and organize files in one place | Primarily sort, rename, or move files |
| Search | Natural-language retrieval with visible evidence | Commonly relies on filenames, metadata, filters, or rules |
| Organization | Proposes a coherent structure from the full batch | Commonly uses predefined categories or conditions |
| Workflow | Plain-language requests with a clear before-and-after preview | Commonly uses menus, profiles, rules, or fixed workflows |
| Privacy | Uses local Ollama models and keeps file contents on your Mac | AI and cloud usage vary by product |
Your models
Choose compatible chat, embedding, and vision models installed in Ollama.
Your data
Filenames, document text, images, prompts, and embeddings remain local.
Your decision
Model output stays a suggestion until you choose to apply it.
Start with one double-click
The initial release supports macOS and creates a familiar app icon for everyday use.
- Install and open Ollama.
- Download Sift from GitHub, then unzip the folder.
- Double-click
Install Sift.commandonce to download the default local models and prepare the app. - Open Sift from the blue
Sift.appicon revealed in Finder.
Sift currently integrates with Finder, the macOS Trash, and a native macOS launcher. Windows and Linux are not officially supported in this initial release.