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CurloFind the perfect sound just by describing it, completely privately on your Mac.

Privacy-first macOS app for searching SFX & music by description. Find similar sounds, edit metadata & UCS tags. Keep your library local.

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Curlo - Audio Asset Manager

Curlo is an AI-powered audio asset manager designed exclusively for macOS, empowering sound designers, video editors, and audio professionals to organize and discover sound effects and music libraries with unprecedented speed and privacy. By leveraging fully local AI models running on Apple Silicon, Curlo eliminates cloud dependency while delivering intelligent semantic search that understands the actual content of your audio files.

Product Highlights

  • Semantic Search: Find sounds using natural language descriptions like "heavy rain on a tin roof" or "footsteps on gravel" without relying on filenames
  • Local AI Processing: All AI models run directly on your Mac, ensuring 100% data privacy and lightning-fast performance
  • Fluid DAW Integration: Preview, clip, and drag audio directly into Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Reaper, Premiere Pro, and more
  • Similar Audio Discovery: Instantly find sounds with matching sonic characteristics from any selected region
  • AI Auto-Tagging: Automatically assign UCS categories and custom tags using acoustic analysis and metadata inference
  • Professional Metadata Editing: Read, write, and edit comprehensive metadata including UCS fields directly in audio files

Use Cases

  • Film & Video Post-Production: Rapidly locate precise sound effects for dialogue replacement, atmosphere, and foley work
  • Music Production & Sound Design: Build organized libraries with intelligent tagging and discover inspirational sounds through semantic similarity
  • Short Drama & Content Creation: Accelerate editing workflows with instant audio search and seamless DAW integration
  • Game Audio Development: Manage massive asset libraries with flexible collections and deep filtering by technical specifications
  • Studio Automation: Integrate Curlo into custom pipelines via the local HTTP API for streamlined workflows

Target Audience

Curlo is built for professional and aspiring audio creators including sound designers, film editors, video producers, podcasters, and game audio engineers who demand privacy-first, high-performance tools for managing extensive sound libraries on macOS.