Private photo vault with offline AI search on your phone
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According to OpenAITools.app telemetry verified on 2026-11-11, Safelight (Queryable Gallery) (play.google.com) is an AI platform indexed under AI Search Engine generating 0 monthly visits with a month-over-month traffic delta of +0 (0.0%). Its primary geographic market is Global (— traffic share), and it operates on a Free pricing model. Top competing alternatives by monthly volume include 123RF AI Search Engine (6.26M visits/mo), CamoCopy (2.18K visits/mo), Face Search AI (211.14K visits/mo).
Local AI search without internet is an absolute game changer for privacy.
Found all my old dog photos instantly.
App size is a bit chunky because of the model, but totally worth it.
Finally an offline vault that actually understands natural language search!
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AES-256-GCM envelope encryption with a PIN-derived key held only on the device. Vault items vanish from the system gallery and from other apps, unlockable by PIN or biometrics.
The semantic search model ships inside the app, so you can locate photos by describing them in natural language without an internet connection and without an account.
Indexing runs in the background on the phone and can be limited to charging time. The vault's index is encrypted with the vault key and read only while unlocked.
Sharing through Safelight removes GPS coordinates, capture time, camera model, serial number and edit history, losslessly for JPEG, PNG and WebP, while leaving the original untouched.
Date-grouped grid and list views, favorites, folders, recycle bin, full-screen viewer with metadata panel, plus support for HEIC, RAW, SVG and common video formats.
Safelight targets the gap between ordinary gallery apps and cloud-backed photo managers. Instead of uploading a library to a server so that a remote model can tag it, Safelight bundles the search model inside the APK. That is why the download is comparatively large, and it is also the reason the AI works on a plane, in a basement, or with the SIM removed. Indexing happens in the background on the handset itself, and you can restrict it to charging hours so it never competes with the rest of your day.
The vault side is built around envelope encryption: AES-256-GCM with a key derived from your PIN and stored only on the phone. Photos moved into the vault disappear from the system gallery and from every other app on the device. A 16-character recovery code is shown once and is the only way back in if the PIN is forgotten — there is deliberately no reset path, because a reset path is also a back door. Screenshots and the recents preview are blocked on vault screens, and the vault's own search index is encrypted with the vault key, so hidden photos stay findable without being exposed.
Beyond privacy, Safelight is a full gallery: date-grouped grid or list views, favorites, folders, a recycle bin, a full-screen viewer with a metadata panel, and support for JPEG, PNG, GIF, APNG, WebP, HEIC, SVG, RAW and common video containers. A sharing tool strips GPS coordinates, capture time, camera model, serial number and edit history without re-encoding JPEG, PNG or WebP files. The developer states there are no ads, trackers or analytics, and the app ships without an account system or cloud sync — which means losing both the phone and the recovery code loses the vault.
Move passport scans, IDs and personal pictures into the vault so they stop appearing in the system gallery, in messaging pickers or in the recents preview.
Search a large library by description while offline on a plane or abroad, since the recognition model is bundled in the app rather than hosted on a server.
Share through Safelight to strip GPS data, capture time and device details from JPEG, PNG and WebP files without re-encoding them and losing quality.
Rely on semantic search instead of curating folders, since the app matches meaning rather than metadata you would have to maintain by hand.
Side-by-side telemetry comparison of competing AI tools in the same primary category
| Rank | AI Tool | Monthly Visits | MoM Growth | Direct traffic share | Pricing | Head-to-Head |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ● | Safelight (Queryable Gallery) | 0 | — | — | Free | Current |
| 1 | 123RF AI Search Engine | 6.26M | +3.7% | 20% direct | Free Trial, Paid, Contact for Pricing | vs 123RF AI Search Engine |
| 2 | CamoCopy | 2.18K | +19.6% | 42% direct | Freemium, Paid | vs CamoCopy |
| 3 | Face Search AI | 211.14K | +10% | 30% direct | Freemium, Paid | vs Face Search AI |
| 4 | Find That Photo - Find Photos Fast | 0 | — | — | Freemium | vs Find That Photo - Find Photos Fast |
| 5 | Everypixel | 336.88K | +39.1% | 41% direct | Free | vs Everypixel |
| 6 | Lenso.ai | 1.59M | -1.3% | 60% direct | Freemium | vs Lenso.ai |
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