Your media library, alive.
Chat with your entire photo library — without keeping it all on your iPhone.
Silo keeps originals on your Mac or external drive, syncs lightweight previews to your iPhone, and makes every photo, video, screenshot and memory searchable.
Keep 1.1 TB of memories browsable from 33 GB on your iPhone. Up to 97% reduction.
Indexing, metadata, OCR, transcripts
Originals + high-quality previews
Archive
42,816 photos
All photos, videos, screenshots
The problem
Your photos are saved. But they are not really accessible.
iPhone storage fills up
You delete apps, clear chats, and still your gallery wins. Every photo and video eats the one thing you cannot buy more of.
iCloud scales your bill
The bigger your memories get, the more you pay every month. Storage that grows with your life should not cost like a subscription addiction.
SSDs become invisible
Cheap storage is great — until your archive disappears from your daily life. A drive in a drawer is a museum, not a library.
How it works
Silo turns your Mac or drive into a living photo library.
Connect your drive
Plug your SSD, HDD, or Mac Photos library into Silo. It indexes photos, videos, screenshots, metadata, OCR and transcripts locally.
Sync lightweight previews
Your iPhone gets small, beautiful previews — not the heavy originals. A 1.1 TB archive becomes a 33 GB searchable gallery.
Ask your library
Search naturally: places, people descriptions, text inside images, spoken moments in videos. Like chatting with your own memories.
Ask your gallery
Search like you talk.
Folders and dates were made for computers. Silo lets you ask for memories the way you remember them.
Show me all beach videos from last summer.
Find the photo of the parking ticket.
Photos from Japan with my family.
Screenshots with flight numbers.
Ask for the memory, not the file name
A local assistant-style search can surface scenes like laughing videos, birthday cake moments, or family clips without uploading the archive.
Ask your gallery
Search like you talk.
Ask for memories the way you remember them.
Storage
Keep the archive. Shrink what lives on your phone.
Without Silo
~95,000 photos & videos
Stored on device or in iCloud
On your iPhone or cloud bill
With Silo
~95,000 media items
Previews on iPhone, originals on drive
33 GB on iPhone at 97% reduction
Example based on preview settings. Your results may vary.
Features
Built for one job: make local photo storage feel magical.
Local-first
Your archive is indexed on your Mac. No cloud upload required. Your photos never leave your home unless you choose.
External-drive native
Keep originals on SSD or HDD and still browse them from iPhone like they live on the device.
AI search
Find memories by meaning, objects, places, text and transcripts — without uploading a single byte.
Video-aware
Search videos with generated previews and transcripts. Find that moment someone said a name.
Lightweight cache
Carry the feeling of your full library without carrying every original. Up to 97% reduction.
Built for huge libraries
Years of photos, videos, and archives. All browsable from your phone, no matter how large the library.
Compare
Not iCloud. Not a NAS. Not another gallery app.
iCloud
Great for sync. Becomes a monthly bill that never stops growing.
External SSD
Cheap storage. Invisible from your phone the moment you unplug it.
NAS
Powerful. Too technical for normal users. Another hobby, not a product.
Silo
Local-first, iPhone-friendly, AI-searchable. Built for personal media archives.
Pricing
Simple pricing. No cloud tax.
No monthly cloud storage subscription. Your drives stay yours.
Free
Try Silo with a smaller library.
- Local indexing
- Basic preview sync
- Limited library size
- Basic search
Silo Plus
For your full personal media archive.
- Large library support
- iPhone preview cache
- AI search across photos / videos / screenshots
- OCR + metadata indexing
- External drive support
- All updates during subscription
Lifetime
Pay once. Own the core app.
- Lifetime access to core Silo
- Local indexing + preview sync
- Personal archive search
- Early supporter price
- Available for early users only
One-time payment. No subscription.
Get lifetimeCompany
SILO is an early-stage startup building local-first AI infrastructure for personal media libraries. The product is currently in private beta for Mac and iPhone users with large photo and video archives.
Current Status
SILO is in active development. The current prototype indexes local photo and video libraries on Mac, generates lightweight previews and metadata, and syncs a searchable proxy layer to iPhone.
We are onboarding early users with large iPhone photo libraries, external SSD archives, and iCloud storage pressure.
Early Prototype Results
- Test library: 25,000+ photos and videos
- Original archive size: ~290 GB
- Mobile proxy layer: up to 97% smaller
- Indexed locally on Mac
- No cloud upload required for originals
Make your photo archive feel alive again.
Join the early access list and help shape the local-first AI media library for iPhone and Mac.