Why Local-First Matters
Cloud albums are convenient until they aren’t: pricing changes, export friction, region lockouts, or a quiet realization that your search history lives on someone else’s servers.
Local-first means the library of record is on disk you control. Backups become your problem — and your power. LUMORA indexes folders in place, never requires an account, and keeps inference offline after you choose to download models.
That does not mean anti-cloud forever. It means the default is ownership: sync and backup stay tools you pick, not a product tax on remembering.
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