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Find any moment in your video, audio and photos, entirely on your own machine.
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What is MediaFind?
MediaFind is an audio analysis tool that finds any moment in your video, audio and photos, entirely on your own machine. A local-first desktop app that indexes your video, audio, photos, chats and notes, then lets you search, ask questions and cut clips without uploading anything.
MediaFind is a desktop application that indexes video, audio and photos on your computer and makes all of it searchable. Point it at a folder and it transcribes speech with word-level timestamps, labels speakers, pulls on-screen text with OCR, tags scenes and objects, and builds embeddings for semantic search. Everything is computed locally with Whisper, CLIP and an on-device language model, so no account, API key or upload is involved. The core path can be verified: a built-in privacy check reports zero external connections while the main features run. Search is the centre of the product and it offers more than a dozen modes. You can describe a moment in plain language, search by a sample image, look for a colour or mood, locate a named person or brand logo, find every mention of an organisation, or jump to a specific speaker. Results resolve to exact timestamps. A local Ask assistant answers conversational questions across the whole library and cites the clips it read. Meetings mode transcribes live from a microphone or a browser tab, and on Mac it can capture both sides of a Zoom, Teams or Meet call without a bot joining. The same library feeds three other areas. Memory imports a ChatGPT or Claude data export, or a folder of Markdown notes, so past conversations sit alongside your media and can be asked about or deleted on demand. Create is a timeline editor with transcript-based cutting, caption burn-in, reframing and export to Premiere, Resolve or Final Cut as FCPXML or EDL. Pro adds storyboard assembly and automatic highlight reels. The audience is broad: podcasters digging for a quote across hundreds of episodes, editors hunting b-roll, journalists citing a timestamp, legal teams that cannot let recordings leave the machine, and anyone with a lifetime of home video. Compared with cloud media search tools, the trade-off is local compute. Model downloads and indexing take real time and depend on your hardware. The free tier caps indexing at 10 files, and Pro is priced as a serious subscription rather than a casual purchase.
How do you use MediaFind?
1Download the desktop app
Get the build for macOS, Windows or Linux from the download links. There is no account to create and no API key to paste.2Pick your models on first run
Choose a transcription engine and assistant model that match your machine, trading speed against accuracy. Models download once and then run offline.3Add a folder of media
Point MediaFind at a folder of video, audio or photos. While the app is open it watches the folder and indexes new files once copying finishes, which can be switched off in Settings.4Search and confirm a moment
Describe the moment you remember, or search by image, logo, speaker or on-screen text. Results link to the exact timestamp for a one-click check.5Ask your library a question
Use the on-device assistant for questions that span several files. Answers cite the clips they drew on, so you can verify each claim.6Connect an AI agent over MCP
In Settings, open Connect to AI agents to let Claude, Claude Code or Cursor search the same library. Your files stay in place and the assistant receives only what it requests.
Pros and cons
Pros
- All transcription, search and assistant work runs on-device, with a built-in check that reports zero external connectionsAI
- Search covers speech, scenes, on-screen text, colour, faces, logos and speakers, and results link to exact timestampsAI
- Meetings are transcribed without a bot joining the call, and notes export with action items and decisionsAI
- The bundled timeline editor cuts by transcript and hands frame-accurate timelines to Premiere, Resolve or Final CutAI
- Importing ChatGPT or Claude exports puts past conversations in the same searchable library as your mediaAI
Cons
- The free plan indexes only 10 media files, so evaluating it on a real archive means payingAI
- Pro costs $89.99 per month billed annually, or $249.99 monthly after a $99.99 first month, which is steep for individualsAI
- Accuracy and speed depend on local hardware and first-run model downloads, and 8 GB machines get the Turbo transcription tierAI
- Live capture of both sides of a call is limited to the Mac appAI
- No mobile apps are offered, so the library is tied to the desktop machine where it was indexedAI
How much does MediaFind cost?
Pricing
Free covers up to 10 media files plus chats and notes, with search, on-device Ask, summaries and the timeline editor. Pro Monthly starts at $99.99 for the first month, then $249.99 per month. Pro is also offered at $89.99 per month billed annually. No per-minute processing fees are listed.
Learn moreIntegrations
Claude, Claude Code and Cursor can connect over MCP from Settings to search the library, ask questions and read transcripts. Timeline exports go to Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut as FCPXML or EDL.
Learn moreFeatures
Fifteen search modes across video, audio and photos, including semantic search, CLIP scene search, OCR, colour and mood, sound events, phonetic matching, named entities, reverse image and speaker labels. It also covers Whisper transcription, summaries, chapters, live meetings with action items, a local Ask assistant with citations, ChatGPT and Claude history import, a transcript-based timeline editor, auto-reels, storyboard assembly and FCPXML or EDL export.
Frequently asked questions about MediaFind
How much does MediaFind cost?
Free covers up to 10 media files plus chats and notes, with search, on-device Ask, summaries and the timeline editor. Pro Monthly starts at $99.99 for the first month, then $249.99 per month. Pro is also offered at $89.99 per month billed annually. No per-minute processing fees are listed.Does MediaFind offer a free trial?
Fresh installs include a separate 7-day no-card local Pro trial. Starting either Pro plan begins its own 7-day billing trial before the first charge, and either can be cancelled anytime.How do you use MediaFind?
The walkthrough on this page covers 6 steps: 1. Download the desktop app 2. Pick your models on first run 3. Add a folder of media 4. Search and confirm a moment 5. Ask your library a question 6. Connect an AI agent over MCP.What platforms does MediaFind support?
MediaFind is available on MacOS, Windows and Linux.What does MediaFind integrate with?
Claude, Claude Code and Cursor can connect over MCP from Settings to search the library, ask questions and read transcripts. Timeline exports go to Premiere, Resolve and Final Cut as FCPXML or EDL.What are the limitations of MediaFind?
The free plan indexes only 10 media files, so evaluating it on a real archive means paying. Pro costs $89.99 per month billed annually, or $249.99 monthly after a $99.99 first month, which is steep for individuals. Accuracy and speed depend on local hardware and first-run model downloads, and 8 GB machines get the Turbo transcription tier.
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