About Dhito
How It Works
Dhito is a semantic search engine for your local files. Unlike traditional search that looks for exact filenames, Dhito understands the content of your documents, images, and videos.
Indexing
When you first open Dhito, it scans your selected folders. It creates a local index that allows for natural language queries.
Local AI
The heavy lifting is done by neural networks running natively on your hardware. Nothing is sent to the cloud for processing.
Adding Folders
You have full control over what Dhito sees. Add specific projects, your downloads folder, or your entire home directory. You can remove them at any time.
New Hardware
Moving to a new system? Simply install Dhito and log in. Your subscription follows your account, and the app will re-index your new local files.
Who Builds Dhito
Dhito is built by the Dhito team, who wrote the on-device inference pipeline the app runs on. Every model listed below executes on your Mac's Neural Engine — there is no server-side component to any of them, and no configuration that could route them off the machine.
The model chain
OpenAI Whisper transcribes audio and video. Microsoft Florence-2 captions and OCRs images. All-MiniLM produces the embeddings that make search semantic. An MS-MARCO cross-encoder reranks the results. Qwen3 answers questions about a document. All bundled, all local.
Built for Apple Silicon
The app ships as an arm64 binary targeting the M-series Neural Engine, which is why it requires an M1 or later on macOS 13 Ventura. Intel Macs are not supported and there is no plan to add them — the performance the app depends on is not available there.
Shipped and maintained
Releases are notarised by Apple, distributed as a signed DMG and a Homebrew cask, and the app updates itself. What changed in each version is published in full.
What we deliberately do not do
No telemetry, no analytics on your queries, and no account required for search to work. Nothing about the files you index is transmitted, because there is nowhere for it to be transmitted to.
Subscriptions & Trials
We believe in sustainable software without selling your data.
Free Trial
Download Dhito and try it free for 14 days. No sign up, no credit card required.
Subscription
A single subscription covers all your personal computers. It includes all updates and new AI model integrations.
Cancel Anytime
You can cancel your subscription at any time through our portal. You will retain access until the end of your billing period.
Every release and what it changed is listed on the changelog, and how Dhito compares with Spotlight, Raycast, HoudahSpot, DEVONthink and Fenn is set out on the comparison pages.