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How Dhito compares

Five side-by-side comparisons against the tools people actually weigh Dhito against. On finding files, four of the five are not close: Spotlight, Raycast, HoudahSpot and DEVONthink all match characters rather than meaning, and none of them reads what is inside your images or hears what was said in a recording. Dhito does, with every model running on your own machine and no cloud path to configure.

Fenn is the exception and the closest competitor — it is the other genuinely local semantic search app on the Mac, and it indexes far more file formats than Dhito does. Each page also says where the other tool wins, because several of them do. Spotlight and Raycast are better at launching apps. DEVONthink is a real archive system. HoudahSpot builds a better attribute query. None of those are the job Dhito is built for, and every one of them is named on the page rather than left for you to discover afterwards.

The constraints, stated once: Dhito needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 13 or later, it is not a launcher, and it is not a filing system.