Lap is designed around one principle: your photos are yours.
Lap has no required cloud account and no forced upload. Your photos stay on your local disk, in the folders you already use.
There is no registration, no login and no account. Lap runs entirely on your machine.
Search, visual similarity, smart tags and face features all run locally through ONNX Runtime — your photos are never sent to a server for analysis.
Indexing, browsing, searching and organizing all work without an internet connection.
Lap is GPL-3.0 licensed. You can read the source to verify exactly how your data is handled.
For full details, see the privacy document in the repository.