Observed arrival · 2026-09-27

Truffalay searches your iPhone photos—including the ones you want to exclude

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Truffalay is an iPhone photo-search app that finds images by their contents, actions, dates, places, and text while keeping its models and search on the device.

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For: iPhone users searching large photo libraries
Worth noticing: Its 20-query benchmark reports “no X” precision of 0.81, versus 0.39 for MobileCLIP alone; the page calls this a small hackathon benchmark, not a study.

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The site describes a background index built with MobileCLIP, Apple Vision, and, where available, Apple’s on-device language model. Its benchmark covers 20 queries against 94 openly licensed photos, with results split by query type; the page cautions that this is a small hackathon benchmark, not a study. The beta listing specifies iOS 27 and an approximately 190 MB download.

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