Curlo: Local AI Search for SFX and Music by Describing Sounds
Curlo is a privacy-first macOS app for searching, previewing, and organizing large sound libraries. It lets you find SFX or music by describing what you want to hear, with fully local offline search, metadata management, AI auto-tagging, and integration with DAWs.
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Key points
- Local offline semantic search for audio files
- Search by natural language description, filename, tags, and more
- Drag and drop directly into Pro Tools, Logic Pro, and other DAWs
- AI auto-tagging and UCS category support
Why it matters
This matters because local offline semantic search for audio files.
Technical impact
May affect agent architecture, tool calling, workflow automation, and product integration.
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Curlo is a privacy-first macOS app for searching, previewing, and organizing large sound libraries. Find SFX or music by describing what you want to hear, search for similar sounds, edit metadata & UCS, manage tags, and keep everything fully local on your Mac.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m the maker of Curlo, and also a part-time audiobook post-production editor.
Curlo started from a problem I kept running into: sometimes you know what you want to hear, but you do not know the filename.
So I built Curlo — a native macOS app that lets you search your local sound library by describing what you hear.
For example:
- heavy rain on a tin roof
- footsteps on gravel
- gentle piano melody
- short metallic hit
- dark cinematic drone
Curlo analyzes the audio content locally on your Mac, then lets you find sounds by natural language. The search does not need the file to already be named or tagged perfectly. Your audio files and search queries stay on-device.
Key features:
- Semantic search for local audio files (Fully offline)
- Metadata search with commands like /filename, /tag, /ucs, and /format
- Drag clips into DAWs and apps like Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Reaper, Premiere Pro, and other tools
- Similar audio search from a file or selected region
- AI auto-tagging and UCS category support
- Metadata reading, editing, and writing
- Localhost API for custom workflows
I’d love feedback from sound designers, video editors, audiobook/podcast editors, music producers, and anyone managing a large local audio library.
Thanks for checking it out!
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