iCloud is alive but expensive
Your photos stay easy to access, but your storage bill never really ends.
SILO keeps your full photo archive on your own drive and gives your iPhone a lightweight, searchable gallery — without turning local storage into a forgotten backup.
Mac + iPhone first. Your drive stays the vault. No cloud upload required.
Proxy files travel with you. Originals stay in the vault.
Mac pushes missing proxies, metadata, OCR, and transcripts.
Find laughing videos, birthday cakes, or spoken moments from the local index.
Indexing, metadata, OCR, transcripts
Originals + high-quality proxies
Archive
SILO
Your photos stay easy to access, but your storage bill never really ends.
Once photos leave your iPhone, they often disappear into folders nobody opens.
Keep the archive on your own drive, but browse it from your iPhone like it still belongs there.
Built for
SILO
Originals and high-quality proxies live on your SSD or external drive.
Your Mac organizes the library and handles heavier search, metadata, OCR, and transcript indexing.
Your iPhone connects over Wi-Fi or USB-C and carries a lightweight, searchable version of your gallery.
SILO
Automatic local sync keeps proxy files, metadata, OCR, and transcript updates moving from Mac to iPhone.
Browse with high-quality proxy files that can reduce iPhone storage by more than 97%.
Your SSD remains the source of truth for full-resolution media.
Find by exact words, meaning, OCR text, video transcripts, dates, places, and context.
Know what is on your phone, what is in the vault, and what needs the drive.
Your memories stay on storage you own instead of becoming another permanent subscription.
Proof layer
SILO keeps full-size media in the vault, then automatically syncs the pieces that make the library feel alive on iPhone: proxy files, metadata, OCR, meaning, and video transcripts.
A local assistant-style search can surface scenes like laughing videos, birthday cake moments, or family clips without uploading the archive.
SILO
Convenient, but expensive forever.
Affordable, but forgotten.
Your own storage, alive on iPhone.
Vision
SILO starts with a simple pain: iPhones fill up, iCloud gets expensive, and SSD backups become unusable. The long-term vision is a private media layer where your own devices store, index, and surface your memories without forcing everything into the cloud.
Keep the archive on your own drive. Keep the experience on your iPhone.