--- title: On-Device Image Semantic Search: Recreating Apple & Google… description: Part 4 of a series on building an Apple/Google Photos clone in React Native, focusing on on-device semantic image search using edge AI. The approach uses the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/on-device-image-semantic-search-recreating-apple-google--gutxxvaxg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: On-Device Image Semantic Search: Recreating Apple & Google… | daily.dev og:description: Part 4 of a series on building an Apple/Google Photos clone in React Native, focusing on on-device semantic image search using edge AI. The approach uses the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/on-device-image-semantic-search-recreating-apple-google--gutxxvaxg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gutXxVaxg.png og:image:alt: On-Device Image Semantic Search: Recreating Apple & Google… og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # On-Device Image Semantic Search: Recreating Apple & Google… **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Part 4 of a series on building an Apple/Google Photos clone in React Native, focusing on on-device semantic image search using edge AI. The approach uses the CLIP embedding model via react-native-executorch to convert images and text queries into comparable vectors, and react-native-rag for on-device vector storage and similarity search using HNSW-based ANN algorithms. Running inference locally eliminates cloud costs, removes privacy risks, and scales automatically with app installs. A fully functional open-source demo is available on GitHub. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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