Lentix is for photographers who want to own their library — 60,000 RAWs, AI-assisted culling and edits, lineage you can audit, and nothing uploaded. If you have a Lightroom catalog, point Lentix at the .lrcat and your folders, ratings, keywords, and collections come across.
Type what you remember about a shot -- a color, a place, a thing that was happening. Lentix reads what's actually in your images, so you search the way you remember, not the way a folder tree is organized.
Everything below runs on your hardware. Models load on demand and process in the background while you keep working.
Your photos never move. Lentix reads them where they live on disk; we do not copy them into a vault or re-encode them. The catalog is a SQLite file in a folder you pick — open it in any SQLite browser and read every row. There is no telemetry, no account, no server call. You can confirm this with netstat or by unplugging your network cable; Lentix runs unchanged. If Lentix the company goes away tomorrow, your photos are still plain files in plain folders. Your catalog is still a SQLite database with a public schema. You can leave because the exit door is the front door.
Indexing, search, and AI inference all run on-device. The only thing that touches the network is a model download you choose to start.
Open the app and add a folder. There's no login, no sync, no telemetry quietly shipping your library somewhere.
Lentix reads originals where they are. A separate catalog holds thumbnails and metadata -- delete it and your photos are exactly as they were.
Faces are clustered locally as your library indexes. Merge groups, name people, and find every shot of someone -- all without a single image leaving your machine.
This is a close-network tester build. Some of it is solid; some of it is still proving itself. Here's exactly where things stand -- no marketing gloss.
Lentix is in private beta with a close network of photographers and archivists. Ask for a link and we'll send build notes with it.