This Free AI Tool Lets You Search Your Computer by Describing What’s Inside

A new free and open-source application called DigUp enables users to search their computer files by describing their content, rather than just using file names or exact keywords. Compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux systems, DigUp leverages Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 model to search through various file types, including photos, PDFs, documents, audio, videos, and source code.

Users can input search phrases like "zebra in a video," "where they discuss sleep," or "the pet clause in the lease," and DigUp will open the relevant video, audio at the specific moment, or direct users to the accurate PDF page.

Google DeepMind introduced EmbeddingGemma 2 in October 2026, a 740-million-parameter model that positions text, images, audio, and video within the same shared space. This enables text queries to match content within various file types. EmbeddingGemma 2 supports over 100 languages and operates under the Apache 2.0 license. Cross-language searches are also possible, meaning an English query can find content written in Bengali, Arabic, or other supported languages.

DigUp integrates semantic search with exact matching for elements like names, invoice numbers, and error codes. All processing happens locally on the user's computer, with no files being transferred to the internet except for the initial download of the 865MB model and a daily check for updates, which can be turned off. Users decide which folders DigUp can access and have control over indexation.

Supported file formats include common image formats, PDFs (including scans), documents (TXT, Markdown, RTF, DOCX, ODT, HTML), and audio/video of any length.

For audio, the app processes overlapping 30-second sections, while videos are indexed using sampled frames and their audio tracks. Optional code search can locate functions based on a description of their behavior. Results can be opened directly at the relevant line in popular editors such as VS Code, Cursor, Zed, Sublime Text, and JetBrains IDEs.

Key shortcuts for Mac users are ⌘+⌘Space to open the search, and ↓↑ to navigate results. For Windows and Linux users, the shortcuts are Ctrl+Shift+Space and ↓↑, respectively. Pressing Enter opens the matching page, moment, or code line, while Space opens a large preview, and ⌘+Ctrl+Enter displays the file in the Finder or file manager.

The initial indexing process may take a few minutes to several hours depending on the number of files and available hardware, but subsequent additions become searchable within seconds.