Self-hosted · AI-native · open source

Your personal media library, smarter.

Drop KenNook on a folder of photos and videos and search them like you’d search Google — “beach trips with the kids”, “the dog as a puppy” — privately, on your own machine.

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No cloud. No uploads. No subscription.

Intelligent

Semantic search, face grouping, video transcripts, and a local LLM that answers questions about your library — no API keys, no internet required.

Private

Runs entirely on your hardware. Zero telemetry, zero uploads. Your memories never leave the room.

Yours

Open source under AGPL-3.0. No lock-in, no subscription — free to self-host, forever.

Get started

Runs on your machine — no database server, no Python, no Docker. You’ll need Node 20+, pnpm, and ffmpeg.

# clone, install, index your media, then open it
git clone https://github.com/kennook/kennook
cd kennook && pnpm install
pnpm indexer ~/Pictures
pnpm dev   # → http://localhost:3000

Full setup & prerequisites in the README.