No servers. No API keys. Nothing leaves your Mac or iPhone. Private, offline, sub 5ms Rag. Stop paying for your rag stack, just use Wax instead, 100%. free You can AirDrop it, back it up, version it, even ship it with your app. It just works like a normal file, single file makes it very portable Feature Set: WaxCore: single-file store with dual header pages, WAL replay, frame TOC, crash-safe commits (WAX1 magic, not a server DB) WaxTextSearch: FTS5 via GRDB, plus structured memory (entities, facts, temporal validity) WaxVectorSearch: CPU (Accelerate), Metal, or MetalANNS ; cosine top-k Built-in embedders: CoreML MiniLM (all-MiniLM-L6-v2, 384-d) and optional Arctic (snowflake-arctic-embed-s, query-prefix aware) Hybrid retrieval: text + vector + structured signals, RRF fusion, deterministic query classifier MCP For Agents (Hermes, Claude, Codex)r: virtual per-session .wax stores, handoffs, corpus search, promotion, markdown export/sync Multimodal RAG: VideoRAG (keyframes + host-supplied transcripts), PhotoRAG…