Questions about Reperi

Reperi is a macOS app that puts a panel in the notch of a MacBook. It has three tools: Find searches files by meaning, Go walks folders with the arrow keys, and Clips keeps the long texts and links you copy. It runs on your Mac and needs no account.

macOS 26 or later. On the first launch Reperi downloads its search model (about 635 MB) once, so the first start takes a moment.

Yes. On a Mac without a notch the panel opens from the top centre of the screen.

Press Option+F for Find, Option+G for Go or Control+Option+V for Clips, from any app. You can also rest the pointer on the notch for a moment. The shortcuts are fixed for now.

Not yet. It is invite-only for now: the first 100 people on the early list are invited first, in order, and nothing is charged today.

$5, once, with no subscription. Joining the early list is free, and early members lock that price in. Nothing is charged today.

Find reads inside documents, slides, spreadsheets, scanned PDFs and images (text in images is read on your Mac), and it also matches file and folder names. By default it looks in your Desktop, Documents and Downloads; you add or skip folders in Settings.

Words are matched with accents ignored. For meaning search, typing Vietnamese without accents works best with an AI key set, because Reperi asks the model to put the accents back first.

Clips keeps texts of about 200 characters or more, and links. They are kept for seven days unless you pin them. Copies from password managers are never stored.

Search by words and by meaning works offline once the search model has downloaded. Summaries and titles need a connection to your chosen provider, unless you use a model on your own Mac.

No. The index and the search model live on your Mac. Only if you set an AI key does Reperi send short texts to the provider you chose, to write a summary or a title. Text read from images is never sent.

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Grok, OpenRouter, Groq and Mistral with your own key, or any OpenAI-compatible server on your own machine, such as Ollama or LM Studio.

Reperi charges nothing for it. Your provider bills you directly for the few short calls it makes, or you can point Reperi at a model that runs on your own Mac.

Reperi keeps its index, clips and settings in a folder on your Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Reperi. Deleting that folder and the app removes everything. Your AI key is in the macOS Keychain.

The early builds are not notarized by Apple. Drag Reperi to Applications, then right-click it and choose Open the first time. After that it opens normally.