Your files stay where you put them
July 22, 2026
Most tools that promise to organize your visual library ask for something first: an account, a sync to their cloud, a login screen before you can save a single image. Markie doesn't ask. Save something, and it goes into a folder on your machine. That's the whole arrangement.
No account to lose
There's no sign-up step, because there's no account. Markie has no servers. When you save an image, video, PDF, or SVG through the Chrome extension, it's written straight into the folder you chose on your Mac. Nothing passes through a company's infrastructure first. Nothing waits on a login you'll forget the password to.
A folder you already understand
Your library isn't a black box behind a web app. It's plain files, in a folder, the same kind of folder you've used for a decade. Open the desktop app for the gallery view or the infinite canvas, or don't, and go look at the files directly. If you want your own sync across devices, point that folder at iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive, and it works the way syncing your Documents folder already works. Markie isn't the thing keeping your files; you are.
Search that doesn't leave the room
The AI tagging and semantic search are optional, and when you turn them on, they run locally through Ollama. Nothing about describing or finding your saved assets requires sending them anywhere. The MCP server integration works the same way: it connects your library to an AI assistant like Claude for natural language search and retrieval, on your machine, not through Markie's.
What "no cloud" actually means here
Markie doesn't track your files or your browsing, ever. There's an optional usage ping, off by default, that if you turn it on sends only an app version and platform count, once a day, with no files and no browsing data attached. Everything else stays exactly where you left it: on your Mac, in a folder, under your name.
That's not a feature you configure. It's just where the files are.