FeatureConstellation100% on-device

Your photos aren't a list. They're a constellation.

Constellation turns the result of a search — or any selection — into a visual map of semantic groups you navigate like a small universe. The theme at the center, the groups around it, arcs between them that explain why they connect.

Constellation — Video demo
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In action

Watch an entire search take shape

From an endless grid to a small universe of groups. Click a sphere and its filtered gallery opens, with all the usual actions. You drag the idea, not the pixels.

A map, not a grid

Your search result becomes a constellation: the theme at the center, the semantic groups around it, and arcs that explain why they connect — visual affinity, time sequence, same place. A granularity slider moves from the big picture to fine detail in real time.

Group map AI labels
Constellation — Snapshot
What it's for

Understand, rediscover, tell the story

  • Understand a library in seconds. Instead of scrolling hundreds of shots, you instantly see what a search is made of: the portraits, the groups, the exteriors, the ceremony, the lunch.
  • Find by meaning, not by folder. Groups come from the content of the images, not from file names or import dates.
  • Tell and select. From any group open the filtered gallery and work as always — select, rename, compare and share.
Two ways to create it

Write your poles, or let the library speak

01

Semantic poles — the quick way

Already know what you're after? Type it, separating ideas with commas: outdoor wedding, close-up of the couple, lunch, group photo, dancing. The first phrase defines the set; each one after becomes a pole of the constellation. Instant, deterministic, configured automatically: no waiting, no settings.

02

Auto-labeling — let the archive talk

Not sure what you'll find? Start from a search and let Constellation discover the groups on its own and label them with a sensible name — "romantic couple", "mountain trip", "group photo". Labels arrive in English, Italian and Spanish, always in the app's language, and you choose the engine: local on-device or a remote service.

Concrete use cases

When Constellation changes your day

Organize a photo shoot in one click

After a wedding you import 2,000 shots. Type "getting ready, ceremony, couple portraits, group photo, reception, dancing" and in a moment the shoot is split into delivery-ready spheres — without creating a single folder by hand.

Understand a reportage without scrolling it

You search "trip to Japan" across 8,000 photos: instead of an endless grid, you see the temples, the streets at night, the street food, the portraits. At a glance you know what you actually shot — and what's missing.

Surface the hidden themes of an event

Let auto-labeling work on a corporate conference: "panel on stage", "networking", "coffee break", "awards" emerge. Groups you'd never have thought to search for, already named and ready.

The technology, briefly

Visual understanding that works next to your data

Constellation isn't a graphic filter. Every photo is represented by a visual meaning computed on-device on the Apple Neural Engine with SigLIP 2; from there the groups emerge from the content, with no number to guess, and a slider moves from the big picture to fine detail in real time. The arcs between groups aren't decorative: they measure visual affinity, time proximity and geographic closeness, and show the matching value — no "black box". It's a level of automatic organization that standard products, stuck at the grid or the folder, simply don't offer.

Privacy by default. With the local engine, your images and their meaning never leave your computer.
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