Your Files, Your Folder
July 22, 2026
Markie saves the images, videos, and PDFs you collect into a folder on your Mac. That folder is made of plain files, and you choose where it lives.
A folder, not a database
When the Chrome extension saves something, or the desktop app imports it, the file lands in the library folder you chose. Open that folder in Finder and you'll see ordinary image, video, and PDF files, named and organized as files, not locked inside an app-only container.
The desktop app is where you browse and arrange them: a gallery view for filtering by type, color, tags, and date, and an infinite canvas for laying assets out spatially. The browsing layer sits on top of the files. It doesn't replace them. Turn on AI tagging or semantic search, and you get extra ways to search the folder. Both run locally, through Ollama, and both are optional.
Point it at iCloud, Dropbox, or Google Drive
Because the library is just a folder, you can put it anywhere a folder can go. Point it at iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or Google Drive, and your library syncs the way your files already sync, through whatever provider you've set up and trust.
That's also how the iPhone app fits in. It saves into the same sync folder from the iOS share sheet, never through Markie servers. The Mac app reads from that same folder. One library, reached from two devices.
No account required to hold your own stuff
Markie has no servers and no accounts. Your files never leave your machine unless you decide, through your own sync provider, to put them somewhere else. There's no export step to plan for, because there was never a format only Markie could open. If you stop using the app, the folder stays exactly where it was, full of ordinary files you can open elsewhere.
Why the folder matters
The library lives as files, in a folder you picked, synced through whatever provider you already use. The app is a way to browse and find what's there. The folder is the thing you actually own.