Queryable vs TFM Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Queryable
This app allows you to search your personal photo collection using natural language descriptions. It works entirely offline, ensuring your privacy, and understands complex queries beyond simple tags. Build an index once and then quickly find any moment in your album.
- Natural language photo search
- Offline functionality
- Open-source
- Privacy-focused
- Complex description understanding
- One-time indexing
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A product that has reached #1 on the front page of Hacker News and topped the paid tools chart across all European countries, while ranking #2 in the US on the same day. Queryable is an open-source, offline photo album search tool unlike anything you've used before. Search your photos with natural descriptions like "two people by the sea," "a blonde woman holding a glass of red wine," "a girl in red on the lawn," or even emotional moments like "We fell in love." Queryable understands longer, more human descriptions instead of only simple tags. New in this version: search in your own language. Non-English queries are translated on your device before searching, so your photos and your words never leave your phone. You can also search by photo, filter results by time, batch-select and share, clean up duplicates more precisely, and view Live Photos and videos more reliably. Pay once and use it forever. Queryable works completely offline after download, protecting the privacy of your photo library. FAQ: 1. What languages can I search in? You can search in your own language. Queryable translates your query on device before searching, while keeping the accuracy of the English search model. The app interface is currently localized in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. 2. How is my photo privacy protected? Queryable works completely offline. You can even disable the app's network permissions if you have privacy concerns. 3. How do I use it? After downloading, build an index for your photos. This takes a few minutes depending on your library and device. On an iPhone 12 mini, Queryable processes about 2,000 photos per minute, and indexing is only required once. Once indexing is complete, you can search instantly. When you add new photos, you can update the index at any time. Contact: - Email: myfancoo@gmail.com - Twitter: @immazzystar - GitHub: https://github.com/mazzzystar/Queryable Preview page created with https://screenshots.pro/.
TFM Camera
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TFM Camera turns everyday scenes into visual stories — much like Renaissance artists transforming ordinary moments into timeless compositions. With a clean, unobtrusive interface, the app brings a director’s mindset straight to your phone. Every tool stays quiet so the composition can speak. You control spacing, alignment, angles, and flow long before the shutter clicks. Focus lands instantly, zoom glides smoothly, and guides adapt to your choices, helping you build a strong image from the ground up. In TFM Camera, you’re not just taking photos — you’re constructing photographs with discipline and intention, clarity, and confidence. Drawing on principles used by masters like Da Vinci — from the Golden Ratio to classic Vanishing Point perspective — TFM Camera offers one of the most complete composition toolsets available on mobile. Dynamic Grids, Triadic Lines, armatures, and more help you not just capture a moment, but construct an image with intention. Shoot with purpose. Create with vision. Tell stronger stories — with tools shaped by centuries of art and refined for modern creators.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TFM Camera at every 4 days against Queryable's every 2 weeks. TFM Camera also leads on price ($1.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Queryable's advantage is chart position (#34 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Queryable costs $4.99 and TFM Camera $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Queryable ships an update every 2 weeks, TFM Camera every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Queryable | TFM Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (91 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #34 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 197 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmashMelon LLC | 迎涛 裴 |
Bugs and requests
Queryable
Reported bugs
12 issues- App freezes after analyzing ~12k photos
- App freezes when selecting a photo and searching for similar
- App crashes during indexing
- App freezes on Mac
- Videos won't playback, appear black
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- App returns black photos and irrelevant results on Mac
- App crashes immediately after search
- App doesn't work on iPad Pro
- App doesn't work on older iPads (A12X)
- Indexing stops if app is used while indexing
- Deleted photos are blank
- App crashes when trying to view image
Requested features
39 requests- Multi-select for many images
- Copy/move selected images to other apps
- Open images in native Photos app
- Masonry-like image display
- Fix iPad horizontal mode image shrinking
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- Select all photos feature
- Move selected photos to Files folder
- Support for Chinese language
- Search in Brazilian Portuguese
- Search in Spanish
- Search in German
- Search in French
- Choose clip model for keywords
- Access to photo location/folder
- Voice search
- Incremental index building
- Automatic background index updating
- Gestures for navigation
- Display metadata by default
- Show photos taken around same time
- Sort results by date
- Filter by location
- Work with arbitrary folders on macOS
- Better photo app integration
- Zoom in on images
- Share images from the app
- Swipe left/right to browse images
- Refined UI/UX
- Add a nuage de mots-clés for results
- Add more languages
- Add gestures
- Add ergonomics
- Order results by timestamp
- Filter by location
- Show info about photo by default
- Show photos taken around the same time
- Better photo app integration
- Delete photos
- Fix blank deleted photos
TFM Camera
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Queryable
No in-app purchases
TFM Camera
No in-app purchases









