Open Source Mac Semantic Search Tools
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View 9 business solutionsBrowse free open source Semantic Search tools and projects for Mac below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Semantic Search tools by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Hands-On Large Language Models
Official code repo for the O'Reilly Book
Hands-On-Large-Language-Models is the official GitHub code repository accompanying the practical technical book Hands-On Large Language Models authored by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst, providing a comprehensive collection of example notebooks, code labs, and supporting materials that illustrate the core concepts and real-world applications of large language models. The repository is structured into chapters that align with the educational progression of the book — covering everything from foundational topics like tokens, embeddings, and transformer architecture to advanced techniques such as prompt engineering, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), multimodal LLMs, and fine-tuning. Each chapter contains executable Jupyter notebooks that are designed to be run in environments like Google Colab, making it easy for learners to experiment interactively with models, visualize attention patterns, implement classification and generation tasks. -
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pgvector
Open-source vector similarity search for Postgres
pgvector is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that equips PostgreSQL databases with vector data storage, indexing, and similarity search capabilities—ideal for embeddings-based applications like semantic search and recommendations. You can add an index to use approximate nearest neighbor search, which trades some recall for speed. Unlike typical indexes, you will see different results for queries after adding an approximate index. An HNSW index creates a multilayer graph. It has better query performance than IVFFlat (in terms of speed-recall tradeoff), but has slower build times and uses more memory. Also, an index can be created without any data in the table since there isn’t a training step like IVFFlat. -
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Vedana
Open source multi-agent RAG over a knowledge graph
Vedana is an open-source multi-agent RAG system built around a typed knowledge graph. It is designed for questions that require structure, completeness, and traceability instead of simple text similarity. The system lets agents navigate data step by step through Cypher queries, vector search, document lookup, and source verification. Its architecture combines a knowledge graph, pgvector-based embeddings, incremental ETL, and a backoffice interface for chat, metrics, prompt tuning, and data loading. It also includes JIMS, a framework for persistent conversational agents with typed events and pluggable pipelines. Overall, Vedana is useful for teams that need reliable answers from real data, especially when relationships, counts, rules, and source-backed reasoning matter. -
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KnowNote
A local-first AI knowledge base & NotebookLM alternative
KnowNote is a local-first, open-source AI knowledge base and notebook application created as an Electron-based alternative to Google NotebookLM that emphasizes privacy, control, and simplicity. It lets users build an intelligent, searchable knowledge base from uploaded documents such as PDFs, Word files, PowerPoints, and web pages, and then interact with that content using LLM-powered chat, summarization, and reasoning tools. Unlike many NotebookLM alternatives that rely on Docker or cloud deployments, KnowNote runs natively on desktop platforms without complex setup, meaning all data stays local unless the user opts to integrate with self-managed or private LLM APIs. Its retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system offers semantic search and traceable source references, and it supports multiple LLM providers through a flexible plugin-style provider architecture. -
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CocoIndex
ETL framework to index data for AI, such as RAG
CocoIndex is an open-source framework designed for building powerful, local-first semantic search systems. It lets users index and retrieve content based on meaning rather than keywords, making it ideal for modern AI-based search applications. CocoIndex leverages vector embeddings and integrates with various models and frameworks, including OpenAI and Hugging Face, to provide high-quality semantic understanding. It’s built for transparency, ease of use, and local control over your search data, distinguishing itself from closed, black-box systems. The tool is suitable for developers working on personal knowledge bases, AI search interfaces, or private LLM applications. -
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Haystack
Haystack is an open source NLP framework to interact with your data
Apply the latest NLP technology to your own data with the use of Haystack's pipeline architecture. Implement production-ready semantic search, question answering, summarization and document ranking for a wide range of NLP applications. Evaluate components and fine-tune models. Ask questions in natural language and find granular answers in your documents using the latest QA models with the help of Haystack pipelines. Perform semantic search and retrieve ranked documents according to meaning, not just keywords! Make use of and compare the latest pre-trained transformer-based languages models like OpenAI’s GPT-3, BERT, RoBERTa, DPR, and more. Pick any Transformer model from Hugging Face's Model Hub, experiment, find the one that works. Use Haystack NLP components on top of Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or plain SQL. Boost search performance with Pinecone, Milvus, FAISS, or Weaviate vector databases, and dense passage retrieval. -
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ViMax
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Video Generator All-in-One
ViMax is an open-source framework for performing large-scale multi-modal vision-language modeling and reasoning by combining powerful image encoders with advanced language models to solve complex visual tasks. It integrates components like visual encoders, cross-modal fusion techniques, and reasoning modules so that users can go beyond simple captioning or classification to perform tasks such as visual question answering, multi-image inference, and structured scene understanding. ViMax’s design accommodates large image sets and supports retrieval augmentation, enabling it to work with external image databases, supplementary metadata, and semantic search to enhance context awareness. The system aims to bridge foundational vision backbones and generative language models through adapters and fusion layers that maximize both signal integration and reasoning depth, and includes utility pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment. -
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Weaviate
Weaviate is a cloud-native, modular, real-time vector search engine
Weaviate in a nutshell: Weaviate is a vector search engine and vector database. Weaviate uses machine learning to vectorize and store data, and to find answers to natural language queries. With Weaviate you can also bring your custom ML models to production scale. Weaviate in detail: Weaviate is a low-latency vector search engine with out-of-the-box support for different media types (text, images, etc.). It offers Semantic Search, Question-Answer-Extraction, Classification, Customizable Models (PyTorch/TensorFlow/Keras), and more. Built from scratch in Go, Weaviate stores both objects and vectors, allowing for combining vector search with structured filtering with the fault-tolerance of a cloud-native database, all accessible through GraphQL, REST, and various language clients. -
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Forge Code
AI enabled pair programmer for Claude, GPT, O Series, Grok, Deepseek
Forge is a modern, open-source tool that brings AI-powered code assistance directly into your terminal workflow, effectively turning your shell into a “pair programmer”, without ever leaving your development environment. Written in Rust (with a command-line interface), Forge integrates with your existing shell (bash, zsh, fish, etc.) or IDE-agnostic workflows, allowing you to interact with your codebase, command-line tools, and version control as usual, but with the added support of large language models (LLMs) to help with code generation, refactoring, bug fixing, code review, and even design advice. Rather than requiring a separate UI or web-based IDE, Forge respects the developer’s existing habits and setups, and keeps all operations local, ensuring your code doesn’t get sent to unknown external services — a strong point for privacy and security. It supports many model providers (e.g. GPT, Claude, Grok, and others) via API keys. -
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RAG API
ID-based RAG FastAPI: Integration with Langchain and PostgreSQL
rag_api is an open-source REST API for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using LLMs like GPT. It lets users index documents, search semantically, and retrieve relevant content for use in generative AI workflows. Designed for rapid prototyping, it is ideal for chatbot development, document assistants, and knowledge-based LLM apps. -
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FlagEmbedding
Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs
FlagEmbedding is an open-source toolkit for building and deploying high-performance text embedding models used in information retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation systems. The project is part of the BAAI FlagOpen ecosystem and focuses on creating embedding models that transform text into dense vector representations suitable for semantic search and large language model pipelines. FlagEmbedding includes a family of models known as BGE (BAAI General Embedding), which are designed to achieve strong performance across multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval benchmarks. The toolkit provides infrastructure for inference, fine-tuning, evaluation, and dataset preparation, enabling developers to train custom embedding models for specific domains or applications. It also includes reranker models that refine search results by re-evaluating candidate documents using cross-encoder architectures, improving retrieval accuracy in complex queries. -
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LibrePhotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service
LibrePhotos is an open-source self-hosted photo management platform designed to organize, browse, and analyze personal media libraries while preserving user privacy. The system allows individuals to store and manage their photos and videos locally rather than relying on commercial cloud services. It provides features similar to services like Google Photos but runs on a private server controlled by the user. The application includes AI-powered tools that automatically analyze images to detect faces, objects, and locations, allowing photos to be grouped and searched more efficiently. LibrePhotos supports a wide variety of media formats and provides a web interface that can be accessed from different devices and operating systems. The platform is built using a Django backend and a React frontend, forming a full-stack web application architecture. -
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Memvid
Video-based AI memory library. Store millions of text chunks in MP4
Memvid encodes text chunks as QR codes within MP4 frames to build a portable “video memory” for AI systems. This innovative approach uses standard video containers and offers millisecond-level semantic search across large corpora with dramatically less storage than vector DBs. It's self-contained—no DB needed—and supports features like PDF indexing, chat integration, and cloud dashboards. -
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PaperAI
Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific papers
PaperAI is an open-source framework for searching and analyzing scientific papers, particularly useful for researchers looking to extract insights from large-scale document collections. -
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SentenceTransformers
Multilingual sentence & image embeddings with BERT
SentenceTransformers is a Python framework for state-of-the-art sentence, text and image embeddings. The initial work is described in our paper Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks. You can use this framework to compute sentence / text embeddings for more than 100 languages. These embeddings can then be compared e.g. with cosine-similarity to find sentences with a similar meaning. This can be useful for semantic textual similar, semantic search, or paraphrase mining. The framework is based on PyTorch and Transformers and offers a large collection of pre-trained models tuned for various tasks. Further, it is easy to fine-tune your own models. Our models are evaluated extensively and achieve state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. Further, the code is tuned to provide the highest possible speed. -
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Zvec
A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database
Zvec is an open-source, lightweight, in-process vector database designed to embed directly into applications and serve fast similarity search workloads without the overhead of a separate server process. Developed by Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab, it positions itself as the “SQLite of vector databases” by being easy to integrate, minimal in dependencies, and capable of handling high throughput with low latency on edge devices or small systems. Zvec excels at approximate nearest neighbor search and retrieval tasks that power features like semantic search, recommendation systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) setups. Its performance benchmarks show it achieving high queries-per-second and fast index build times compared to similar tools. Because it runs in-process, developers can embed it in native apps, microservices, or edge computing scenarios where traditional server-based vector databases might be overkill. -
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MCP Server Qdrant
An official Qdrant Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation
The Qdrant MCP Server is an official Model Context Protocol server that integrates with the Qdrant vector search engine. It acts as a semantic memory layer, allowing for the storage and retrieval of vector-based data, enhancing the capabilities of AI applications requiring semantic search functionalities. -
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MemU
MemU is an open-source memory framework for AI companions
MemU is an agentic memory layer for LLM applications, specifically designed for AI companions. Transform your memory into an intelligent file system that automatically organizes, connects, and evolves with your memories. Simple, fast, and reliable memory infrastructure for AI applications. Powerful tools and dedicated support to scale your AI applications with confidence. Full proprietary features, commercial usage rights, and white-labeling options for your enterprise needs. SSO/RBAC integration and a dedicated algorithm team for scenario-specific optimization. User behavior analysis, real-time monitoring, and automated agent optimization tools. 24/7 dedicated support team, custom SLAs, and professional implementation services. -
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Node.js Client For NLP Cloud
NLP Cloud serves high performance pre-trained or custom models
This is the Node.js client (with Typescript types) for the NLP Cloud API. NLP Cloud serves high-performance pre-trained or custom models for NER, sentiment analysis, classification, summarization, dialogue summarization, paraphrasing, intent classification, product description and ad generation, chatbot, grammar and spelling correction, keywords and keyphrases extraction, text generation, image generation, blog post generation, text generation, question answering, automatic speech recognition, machine translation, language detection, semantic search, semantic similarity, tokenization, POS tagging, embeddings, and dependency parsing. It is ready for production, and served through a REST API. You can either use the NLP Cloud pre-trained models, fine-tune your own models, or deploy your own models. -
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Open Semantic Search
Open source semantic search and text analytics for large document sets
Open Semantic Search is an open source research and analytics platform designed for searching, analyzing, and exploring large collections of documents using semantic search technologies. It provides an integrated search server combined with a document processing pipeline that supports crawling, text extraction, and automated analysis of content from many different sources. Open Semantic Search includes an ETL framework that can ingest documents, process them through analysis steps, and enrich the data with extracted information such as named entities and metadata. It also supports optical character recognition to extract text from images and scanned documents, including images embedded inside PDF files. It integrates text mining and analytics capabilities that allow users to examine relationships, topics, and structured data within document collections. -
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OpenAI Cookbook
Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API
openai-cookbook is a repository containing example code, tutorials, and guidance for how to build real applications on top of the OpenAI API. It covers a wide range of use cases: prompt engineering, embeddings and semantic search, fine-tuning, agent architectures, function calling, working with images, chat workflows, and more. The content is primarily in Python (notebooks, scripts), but the conceptual guidance is applicable across languages. The repository is kept up to date and often expanded, and its examples are intended to serve both beginners and intermediate users of the API. It also includes deployment recipes, integration snippets (e.g. with GitHub Actions), and production considerations. Because OpenAI’s API evolves rapidly, the Cookbook acts as a living, community-curated reference to show “how to do X with the API” rather than only reprinting documentation. -
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OpenViking
Context database designed specifically for AI Agents
OpenViking is an open-source context database engineered for efficient indexing and retrieval of large amounts of unstructured or semi-structured context data used by AI applications. It’s primarily designed to serve as a high-performance, scalable backend for storing app context, embeddings, conversational histories, and other textual artifacts that need rapid lookup and semantic search, which makes it especially useful for systems like chatbots or memory-augmented agents. The project is implemented with performance in mind, often leveraging optimized data structures that balance fast reads and writes with minimal resource consumption. Developers can integrate OpenViking into modern AI stacks to unify context storage across services, enabling consistent session history, personalized responses, and richer search experiences. -
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PHP Client For NLP Cloud
NLP Cloud serves high performance pre-trained or custom models for NER
NLP Cloud serves high performance pre-trained or custom models for NER, sentiment-analysis, classification, summarization, dialogue summarization, paraphrasing, intent classification, product description and ad generation, chatbot, grammar and spelling correction, keywords and keyphrases extraction, text generation, image generation, blog post generation, code generation, question answering, automatic speech recognition, machine translation, language detection, semantic search, semantic similarity, tokenization, POS tagging, embeddings, and dependency parsing. It is ready for production, served through a REST API. You can either use the NLP Cloud pre-trained models, fine-tune your own models, or deploy your own models. Pass the model you want to use and the NLP Cloud token to the client during initialization. If you are making asynchronous requests, you will always receive a quick response containing a URL. -
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Python Client For NLP Cloud
NLP Cloud serves high performance pre-trained or custom models for NER
NLP Cloud serves high performance pre-trained or custom models for NER, sentiment-analysis, classification, summarization, dialogue summarization, paraphrasing, intent classification, product description and ad generation, chatbot, grammar and spelling correction, keywords and keyphrases extraction, text generation, image generation, blog post generation, source code generation, question answering, automatic speech recognition, machine translation, language detection, semantic search, semantic similarity, tokenization, POS tagging, embeddings, and dependency parsing. It is ready for production, served through a REST API. You can either use the NLP Cloud pre-trained models, fine-tune your own models, or deploy your own models. -
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QMD
mini cli search engine for your docs, knowledge bases, etc.
QMD is a powerful and lightweight command-line tool that acts as an on-device search engine for your personal knowledge base, allowing you to index and search files like Markdown notes, meeting transcripts, technical documentation, and other text collections without depending on cloud services. Designed to keep all search activity local, it combines classic full-text search techniques with modern semantic features such as vector similarity and hybrid ranking so that queries return not just literal matches but conceptually relevant results. Users can organize content into named collections, embed documents for semantic retrieval, and then perform keyword searches, semantic searches, or hybrid natural-language queries to quickly surface the most useful information across all indexed sources. Because the entire system runs on the user’s machine, privacy is preserved and there’s no risk of exposing sensitive content to outside providers.