Changelog

Gety 0.5.1 is here! This release focuses on polishing the search experience: local search is smoother from typing and filtering to previewing and sharing, while AI can use Gety to read the relevant pages in long documents more precisely.

🔍 Add filters in the search box with @

You can type @ in the search box to quickly limit file type, folder path, time range, and other filters. For example, if you want to find a PDF contract in the Acme project folder, you can search “confidentiality clause @PDF @Acme” to find the right file faster.

These filters appear directly in the search box, like part of your keywords. You can see the current scope and file type at a glance, and remove or adjust them anytime.

If there are folders you search often, you can pin them in the filter panel. The next time you need to narrow the search scope, those frequent folders are easier to find.

✂️ Copy and share directly from preview

After finding something in Gety, you can select text directly in preview and copy the key information out. You do not need to open the original file and find the same place again.

This is especially useful when working with teammates. For example, if you find a “confidentiality clause” in a contract, you can copy the text directly; when sharing, you can also use “Copy as quote” or “Copy as image” to send the content together with the file name and page number. The file name and page number naturally become part of what you share, making it more trustworthy and easier to discuss.

🤖 AI does not need to read the whole document

When AI uses Gety to look up information, it can now read a specific page or page range from a document, instead of reading the entire file every time.

This is especially useful for long documents. For example, if a search result matches page 87 of a PDF with hundreds of pages, AI can read content around that page to answer the question. The context is more precise, faster, and less likely to be distracted by unrelated parts of the document.

✨ New

• Greatly improved HTML preview, so web-format documents now look closer to the original page
• Added LM Studio support, so local models can use Gety’s file search through MCP for a fully local AI workflow
• Added a macOS Full Disk Access permission wizard during onboarding, with permission status shown in Settings
• Added model download progress indicators

⚙️ Improved

• Added PDF annotation extraction, so annotation content can also be searched
• Windows installer can now automatically install the MSVC runtime
• Added SHA256 checksums for update files, making auto updates more reliable
• Added crash and panic minidump diagnostics, controlled by the telemetry setting

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed extraction failures for some images with incorrect file extensions
• Fixed cases where complex files did not continue trying fallback extraction methods after a failure
• Fixed PDF OCR text selection and highlight alignment after preview scaling
• Fixed duplicate NTFS volume names
• Fixed WebView2 scaling issues after waking Windows multi-monitor setups
• Fixed occasional missing ETag errors during model downloads
• Updated OCR and embedding model revisions for better compatibility
• Temporarily disabled the CUDA OCR path to avoid compatibility issues
• Fixed macOS sidebar positioning issues
• Fixed unstable copy actions in desktop preview

Gety 0.5.0 is a milestone release. We’re bringing Gety to Linux for the first time, redesigning the onboarding experience from scratch, adding OCR highlighting in preview, and replacing OS notifications with beautiful custom ones, along with many performance and stability improvements under the hood.

🐧 Linux Support (Experimental)

Gety now runs on Linux! Available as .deb and .AppImage packages, tested on Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 43 KDE, and ArchLinux GNOME. This is an experimental release, and we’d love your feedback.

🚀 Redesigned Onboarding

A brand-new 3-step scope-first wizard with an animated search demo, streaming indexing, and a Getting Started Guide to help you hit the ground running.

🔍 OCR Highlight in Preview

Search keywords are now highlighted directly on OCR text blocks in image and PDF previews, with arrow-key navigation between matches.

🔔 Custom Notifications

Beautiful custom in-app notifications that are always visible. No more missed alerts hidden by OS notification settings. Styled with rounded corners and smooth animations.

🔧 OpenAI Codex Integration

One-click integration with OpenAI Codex CLI. Codex can now search your local files through Gety, just like Claude Code.

⚙️ Improved

• 7.6x faster cold startup by optimizing database schema, cutting startup from 13.8s to 1.8s on large libraries
• Optimized Excel extraction for better stability on large files
• Redesigned AI integration settings with unified architecture
• Improved preview with full file path details and better DOCX performance on large documents
• Rebuild index confirm dialog to prevent accidental rebuilds

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed large file preview hanging or crashing
• Improved crash resilience with better OOM and panic handling
• Improved file system compatibility for cloud storage and NTFS volumes
• Various preview, UI, and cross-platform fixes

✨ New

• Added OCR text extraction for images embedded in Word documents
• Added Index Diagnostics tool to quickly identify why files are missing from the index

⚙️ Improved

• LAN access configuration now allows selecting the corresponding IP address
• Improved AI Integration page styling

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed possible missing indexed files on NTFS
• Fixed app crash during background indexing on Windows
• Fixed CLI not working properly on Windows
• Fixed misaligned keyword highlighting in preview

✨ New

• Added CLI (beta) support for running Gety search and index management from the command line
• Added a setting to allow LAN access to Gety Search API and MCP
• Added a setting to choose whether clicking a result title opens the file or the preview
• Added a macOS option to hide the Dock icon when closing the window
• Added one-click VS Code integration

⚙️ Improved

• Optimized embedding model inference speed on Apple Silicon
• Significantly improved Word document parsing speed

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed a crash on Macs without a battery

This update brings significant enhancements across the board: we’ve introduced original file preview for Word & Markdown with keyword highlighting and one-click navigation, heavily optimized our underlying Embedding model for 30% better semantic understanding, and expanded our MCP one-click configuration family to include Claude Code and VS Code support.

🔍 Original File Preview for Word & Markdown

Say goodbye to plain text with no formatting. You can now preview the original files directly, with support for keyword highlighting and one-click jump, making document viewing more intuitive and efficient.

⚡ Better Semantic Search

We’ve heavily optimized our underlying Embedding model. Performance is up by 30%, making it much better at understanding exactly what you’re looking for.

🔧 MCP One-Click Config: Now with Claude Code & VS Code

Our “one-click family” is growing! We’ve added easy setup for Claude Code and VS Code, seamlessly integrating Gety’s powerful search capabilities into your development workflow. Now supports finding Connectors by name, making it easier for LLMs to work.

🛠 Other Improvements

• Better MCP Compatibility: Now supports finding Connectors by name, making it easier for LLMs to work with Gety.
• Power & Battery: Improved background logic, especially in Power Saving mode.
• Windows File Locking: Fixed the issue where Word files were sometimes locked and couldn’t be edited.
• macOS Folder Paths: Fixed an issue where WeChat and QQ folders were skipped.
• Duplicate Snippets: Fixed a bug where search snippets would sometimes appear twice.
• UI Fixes: Cleaned up some small interface issues.

🐞 Fixed

• Possible crash when extracting abnormal files
• Potential triggering of downloads by indexing cloud drive placeholder files on macOS

v0.4.1 is a comprehensive update built from the ground up. We’ve integrated our new custom-built OCR engine for superior accuracy, rebuilt the core architecture to boost AI semantic search speeds by 10x, and introduced a refreshed UI with enhanced PDF capabilities.

🔍 OCR Overhaul

Powered by our new in-house OCR engine, offering significantly improved accuracy and speed. Now supports text recognition within PDFs, with seamless text selection and copying.

🎨 Redesigned Interface

A complete UI overhaul featuring a modern design language and responsive layout. Includes a dynamic “wave” homepage, an immersive search panel for smoother interactions, and full Dark Mode support.

📄 Enhanced PDF Experience

PDF previews now highlight keyword matches for quick navigation. Both Preview and Text modes support synchronized scrolling, allowing you to select and copy OCR-recognized text directly.

⚡️ 10x Faster Search

AI semantic search is now 10x faster. We’ve also refined our snippet generation algorithm to provide smarter, more accurate result excerpts.

⚙️ Other Improvements

• Image Preview: Added fullscreen viewing support.
• File Navigation: Automatically selects the file when opening its containing folder.
• Integrations: One-click integration with Cherry Studio.
• Diagnostics: New Index Viewer for easy status checking and troubleshooting.
• Data Extraction: Improved content extraction from Excel files.
• Various bug fixes and performance tweaks.

This release introduces the most requested feature — Advanced Filters. Now you can quickly narrow down search results by file type, data source, time range, and match mode, making it easier than ever to find exactly what you’re looking for.

✨ New

• Advanced Filters — quickly filter by file type, data source, time range, and match mode. Features faceted search capabilities where filter options automatically adapt based on your search query and display the number of files for each option.

🐞 Fixed

• Issue where certain files were blocked by built-in rules and couldn’t be searched, such as OneDrive folders, WeChat cache folders, etc.

⚙️ Improved

• Overall stability enhancements
• UI refinements

Version 0.3.6 brings powerful new features to enhance your workflow, including the ability to open containing folders directly from search results, rebuild indexes on demand, and track your search usage with built-in statistics.

✨ Added

• Added “Open Containing Folder” feature
• Added update index and rebuild index feature
• Added support for changing Python mirror sources
• Added search usage statistics

⚙️ Improved

• Improved search list layout: more results visible at a glance
• Improved preview with larger paragraph spacing for better readability
• Improved MCP prompt
• Increased stability of Python environment setup

🐞 Fixed

• Fixed tray icon freezing issues
• Fixed scrollbar issues on macOS
• Fixed some files not appearing in search results

This update expands file format support with Excel search capabilities, improves MCP integration for better AI model compatibility, and delivers significant performance enhancements to the indexing engine.

✨ New

• Support for Excel file search
• One-click to open logs directory
• Python execution logs for easier debugging

⚙️ Improved

• MCP responses are now more model-friendly, reducing token usage
• Auto-detect Python mirrors
• More robust Python environment setup
• Search list display with reduced flicker

🐞 Fixes

• Slow or incorrect scan status on first startup – scanning is now much faster
• Mismatch in file count on first startup
• Possible errors during data migration
• Errors when using MCP on certain models
• NTFS issue where Office file saves weren’t updating the index
• Duplicate indexing when saving files on macOS

Gety 0.3.2 represents a major milestone in our vision to build the next-generation search engine for the AI era. This release combines lightning-fast local search with powerful AI integration capabilities, offering two core features that work seamlessly together:

1️⃣ File Search — Lightning fast, 100% local

• Blazing-fast full-text search
• Full-disk indexing in minutes, not hours
• Local semantic search (purely offline, zero privacy risk)
• Preview panel with highlighted matches

If all you need is a great file search tool, Gety has you covered — delivering a Google-like local search experience right on your desktop.

2️⃣ AI Integration — Give your AI real knowledge

This is where it gets exciting. Gety can securely share your local files with large language models only when you approve, making their answers more accurate, grounded, and actually useful.

• Works with any MCP client — for example, connect Claude to use Claude 4, or use ChatWise/CherryStudio to access GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Flash, and more
• No “knowledge base” setup or file uploads — just chat naturally, and AI searches your local files using Gety when it needs to
• Talk to your LLM in normal natural language; it will automatically turn your prompts into Gety queries

Learn more about AI Integration: https://docs.gety.ai/mcp

This release brings major improvements across the board — from a smoother UI to smarter responsiveness. We’ve fixed critical bugs, enhanced stability, and made Gety more enjoyable to use every day.

✨ New

• Completely rebuilt indexing engine for faster and more stable file scanning.
• Enhanced Claude integration for more accurate responses based on your content.

🐞 Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the preview wouldn’t open on minimum window sizes.
• Fixed occasional crashes during search operations.

⚙️ Improved

• Redesigned UI for smoother, more responsive search experience.
• Responsive layout improvements for preview and search panels.

We’ve rebuilt some of the underlying code to completely resolve the crashing issues. If you’ve experienced frequent crashes, you can download this version and give it a try.

✨ New

• Fixed several critical crash issues.

⚠️ Note: Some crash issues are still being worked on. If you continue to experience crashes, hang tight – they should be addressed in the next update.

Thank you for your patience and support!

✨ New

• Better crash reporting to help us squash those pesky bugs faster
• Some UI polish to make things smoother

If you’ve been experiencing crashes, definitely grab this update! While it won’t fix all crash issues right away, it’ll help us track down and fix them much quicker.

Thank you for your patience and interest in our vision of a private, AI-powered search experience.

The first version of Gety is ready for you to try! We’ve built Gety with a clear mission: to create a powerful bridge between your personal digital world and AI capabilities, while keeping your data completely private and local.

🌟 Gety lets you search file contents just like Google – and with the same speed and efficiency you love from Listary.

🌟 You can connect not just folders, but also clipboard, Twitter bookmarks, browser history, or even your databases using custom Python scripts.

🌟 One feature I’m particularly excited about is Gety’s integration with Claude. You can now leverage AI to work with your local data in entirely new ways.

This is just the start, and we’re working hard to make Gety faster and smarter. I’d love to hear your feedback!

Thank you for being part of this journey!