lompii.

Your mind for what you find.
Save inspiration from anywhere. Find it again by describing it.

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What is lompii?

You saved it months ago: a dark website with huge type, a poster in a particular orange, a line someone wrote that stuck. You don't remember where it was, what it was called, or which folder it went into.

lompii is a desktop app that remembers for you. Save images, page captures, quotes and snippets from your browser with one right-click. lompii looks at each one and works out what it shows and what it's about. Later, type what you remember, "grainy portrait, deep shadow", and it comes back.

It's made for designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, and anyone who collects references.

1 · Save

Right-click an image or text on any site, capture part of a page, or drop in a file.

2 · lompii understands

Each save gets a title, a summary, tags and its colours. You file nothing.

3 · Find

Describe it in your own words. lompii matches how things look and what they mean.

Why lompii?

Most places you keep inspiration are good at storing it and bad at giving it back.

	Folders on your computer	Browser bookmarks	Cloud inspiration apps	lompii
Find something by describing it	✗	✗	some	✓
Find images by how they look, not just their words	✗	✗	some	✓
Keeps the image itself, even if the page disappears	✓	✗	✓	✓
Save from any website in one click	✗	✓	✓	✓
Your library stays on your computer	✓	✓	✗	✓
Works without an account	✓	✓	✗	✓
Free	✓	✓	usually paid	✓
Choose your own AI, or run one offline	n/a	n/a	rarely	✓

What that means in practice:

Finding beats filing. No folders to keep tidy. Search by look ("mountain landscape"), by meaning ("an AI meeting assistant"), or by the words written inside an image.
Private by design. No account, no lompii server. Search runs on your own computer, and nothing leaves it except the item you send to the AI provider you chose. Choose a local model and nothing leaves at all.
Free, with any AI. Bring a key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, or run Ollama or LM Studio. Search by description works with no AI key at all.

A quick tour

Save from anywhere

The browser extension adds Add to lompii to the right-click menu on every site. Save an image at the largest size the site offers, a quote or snippet of selected text, or a capture of the visible area, the full page, or an area you drag over (Alt+Shift+S). Each save keeps the address it came from. You can also drag image files onto the window, or paste one with Ctrl+V.

Find it by describing it

Type a few words about what you remember. lompii's local models compare your words with what each image looks like (CLIP) and what each save means (MiniLM), alongside titles, tags, notes and the text inside images. Press Enter to keep a word as a chip and narrow things down.

Every save, explained

Open any card to see it large, with its colour palette (click a swatch to copy the hex), a short AI summary, tags, the source link and your notes. Generate prompt writes a text-to-image prompt (Midjourney, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion) that would recreate the image.

Same vibe

Found one thing you like? Same vibe lines up everything in your library that's closest to it, by look, meaning, tags and colour.

Stacks

Stacks are collections you build by hand: a poster wall, a moodboard for a client, a set of type references. Give each one a colour, add cards from anywhere, or turn any search into a stack in one click.

The archive, for things you want to keep but not see

Where is it? Click the lompii logo at the top left. That's the archive's door.

To archive a card: drag it onto the logo, or select it and press A, or click the archive button in its detail view. It leaves Everything and Stacks but is kept, with its own search.
To bring it back: open the archive and drag the card onto the logo again (or press A).
To lock it: set a 6-digit PIN in Settings → General. The archive asks for it each time it opens.

Light and dark

lompii's main grid: posters, patterns, landscapes, a studio homepage capture and two quotes
_{The grid in light or dark mode (this image follows your GitHub theme). Three card sizes.}

And the small things

Trash with undo. Deleted items stay for 30 days and can be restored.
Select several cards (Ctrl/Shift-click) to stack, tag, archive or delete them together.
Tags of your own beside the AI's, and rename, merge or delete them across the library.
Runs in the tray so the extension can always save, and Ctrl+Shift+L brings it forward from any app.
One-click backup of the whole library to a folder you choose.

Get started in 3 steps

1. Install the app

Download lompii Setup (.exe) from the latest release and run it.

The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you the first time. Choose More info → Run anyway.

2. Connect your browser

Settings → Extension in lompii walks you through it.

Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi or Arc

The extension comes with the app.

In lompii, open Settings → Extension and click Show folder.
Open chrome://extensions (or edge://extensions, brave://extensions…), turn on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and choose that folder.

Firefox, Zen, LibreWolf or Floorp

The extension is signed by Mozilla.

Open the install link in your browser.
Open the download and click Add.

Then click Connect on the page that opens. lompii comes forward showing a four-digit code; if it matches the one in the browser, click Allow. That's it: right-click any image and choose Add to lompii.

How	What it saves
Right-click an image → Add to lompii	the image, at the largest size the site offers
Select text, right-click → Add to lompii	a quote or a snippet
Right-click the page → Capture an area…	part of the page
Toolbar button	the visible area, full page, a selected area, a delayed capture, or selected text
`Alt+Shift+S`	a selected area (`Enter` takes the whole view, `Esc` cancels)

3. Add an AI provider (optional)

Search by description and Same vibe work without any key. An AI provider adds titles, summaries and tags. Open Settings → AI providers and choose one:

Provider	You need	Default model
Anthropic (Claude)	an API key	`claude-opus-5`
OpenAI	an API key	`gpt-4o-mini`
Google Gemini	an API key	`gemini-3.8-flash`
OpenRouter	an API key	`google/gemini-3.8-flash`
Ollama	Ollama running on your computer	any model you have
OpenAI-compatible server (LM Studio, LiteLLM, vLLM…)	its address, and a key if it asks	any model it serves

Any model that reads images will do. You pay your provider directly for what you use, or nothing with a local model. New saves are analysed automatically; Analyse now catches up on older ones.

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. lompii is MIT-licensed open source with no paid tier. The only cost is whatever your AI provider charges for analysing your saves, and that's zero with a local model like Ollama.

Does anything leave my computer?

Your library, its database and its search never leave. When an item is analysed, that one item (a resized image or its text) goes to the AI provider you chose. The search models download once from Hugging Face, and the app checks GitHub for updates. That's all. See Privacy.

Do I need an AI key?

No. Search by description, Same vibe, stacks, tags and the archive all work without one. A key (or a local model) adds automatic titles, summaries and tags, which make search even better.

Where's the archive?

Click the lompii logo at the top left. Drag cards onto the logo to archive them, and drag them onto it again from inside the archive to bring them back. See The archive.

Is there a Mac or Linux version?

Not yet. lompii is Windows-only for now; a macOS build is on the roadmap.

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
`Ctrl+Shift+L`	Bring lompii forward, from any app
`Ctrl+K`	Search
`Enter` in search	Keep the typed word as a chip
`Backspace` in an empty search	Remove the last chip, then the filter
Arrow keys	Move between cards
`Enter`	Open the selected card
`A`	Archive the selected cards (unarchive, in the archive)
`Delete`	Move the selected card to the trash
`Ctrl`-click / `Shift`-click	Select several cards / a run of cards
`Esc`	Close, clear or step back
`Ctrl+V`	Save a pasted image

You can change the extension's shortcut at chrome://extensions/shortcuts, or in Firefox from about:addons → ⚙️ → Manage Extension Shortcuts.

Privacy

lompii has no account and no server. Everything lives in %APPDATA%\lompii\ on your computer:

Path	What's in it
`lompii.db`	the library: items, tags, stacks and search data (SQLite)
`library/`, `thumbs/`	your files and their thumbnails
`models/`	the search models, downloaded once on first run (about 170 MB)
`settings.json`	your preferences; AI keys are encrypted with Windows' secure storage

Your library stays on your computer. When an item is analysed, or you ask for a prompt, that item (a resized image or its text) goes to the AI provider you chose, with the site's name, the page title and some of your existing tags so it can reuse them. With Ollama, or a server on your own computer, nothing leaves at all.
Two other connections: the search models download once from Hugging Face, and the installed app checks GitHub for new versions. Neither sends anything from your library.
The extension talks to the app over 127.0.0.1 only, with a key handed over when you approve the four-digit code. Web pages can't reach your library.
The archive PIN is stored only as a salted hash, and five wrong guesses in a row slow further tries. It keeps the archive private inside lompii. It doesn't encrypt the files on disk.

The full policy is in PRIVACY.md.

Build from source

For developers: run, test and package lompii

You'll need Node.js 22 or newer and Windows.

git clone https://github.com/lompii-app/lompii.git
cd lompii
npm install      # also builds the native modules for Electron
npm run dev      # runs the app, reloading as you edit

Script	What it does
`npm run dev`	Run in development with hot reload
`npm run typecheck`	Type-check the project
`npm test`	Run the tests
`npm run build`	Type-check and build to `out/`
`npm run dist`	Build the Windows installer into `release/`

Set LOMPII_DATA=<folder> to run on a separate, throwaway library.

After changing anything in extension/, click the reload icon on lompii's card in chrome://extensions. To try it in Firefox, use Load Temporary Add-on… in about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox; a permanent install needs Mozilla to sign it.

How it fits together

Browser extension ─ HTTP, 127.0.0.1 ──┐
                                      ▼
┌──────────── Electron main process ────────────┐
│ server.ts  local API for the extension        │
│ ingest.ts  dedupe, thumbnail, colour, SQLite  │
│ ai.ts      analysis queue and providers       │
│ embed.ts   local CLIP and MiniLM search       │
│ index.ts   IPC, window, lompii:// files       │
└───────────────▲───────────────────┬───────────┘
          IPC (preload)        live updates
┌───────────────┴───────────────────▼───────────┐
│ Renderer: React + Tailwind                    │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Folder	What's in it
`src/main/`	the Electron main process: database, saving, AI, search, the extension's API
`src/preload/`	the typed bridge between the main process and the window
`src/renderer/`	the React app
`src/shared/`	types and helpers both sides use
`extension/`	the browser extension for Chrome and Firefox (Manifest V3, plain JavaScript)
`test/`	tests for parsing, scoring and the PIN

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome: report a problem or suggest an idea. A git hook runs the typecheck and tests before every push (npm install turns it on), so fix what it reports rather than skipping it.

Known limitations

Windows only for now. macOS and Linux builds haven't been tested yet.
Full-page capture stitches screenshots as it scrolls. Pages that scroll an inner panel come out as one screen, and very long pages stop at about 20,000 px.
One filter at a time (a kind, a stack or same vibe), plus any number of search words.

Name		Name	Last commit message	Last commit date
.githooks		.githooks
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE		.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE
build		build
docs/images		docs/images
extension		extension
src		src
test		test
.gitignore		.gitignore
LICENSE		LICENSE
MILESTONE.md		MILESTONE.md
PRIVACY.md		PRIVACY.md
PRODUCT.md		PRODUCT.md
README.md		README.md
electron-builder.yml		electron-builder.yml
electron.vite.config.ts		electron.vite.config.ts
package-lock.json		package-lock.json
package.json		package.json
project.md		project.md
tsconfig.json		tsconfig.json

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