your messages, greppable

vintage puts your whole messages history behind a terminal command: full-text search, unreplied threads, per-person timelines, and a tui with inline images — all against a local index that stays current.

every read command takes --json, so your scripts and your agent get the same data the tui renders.

vintage runs entirely on your Mac: it reads the local Apple databases, builds one person-graph index, and serves it over cli and mcp. no cloud, no account, nothing leaves the machine.

try it

brew install systemoperators/tap/vintage
vintage index sync
vintage search "flight to miami"
vintage messages unreplied
vintage tui              # the full-screen browser

terminal surface

search across messages (and mail, notes, calendar) in one query
unreplied — threads where the last word is theirs
tui with person cards, threads, and inline image rendering (kitty/ghostty)
--json on every read — pipe it, script it, feed it to an agent

honest limits

keyword ranking free; meaning-based ranking is the engine

questions

does it handle attachments and images?

yes — image attachments render inline in the tui (kitty graphics protocol, halfblock fallback elsewhere), and the engine can ocr them into searchable text.

local. no account. never phones home. · everything vintage does · the engine