For those who accumulate digital tickets and concert confirmation emails, Gigs emerges. This iPhone app focuses on creating a personal archive of music events. Its operation relies on Apple's on-device artificial intelligence, extracting data such as artist, date, and venue from various formats, all processed on the device to preserve user privacy.
On-device Processing and Core ML 🤖
Gigs uses Apple's machine learning frameworks, such as Core ML and Vision, to run text and entity recognition models directly on the iPhone. By processing images of tickets or screenshots locally, it does not send data to external servers. The app identifies and structures the information in a local database, offering automatic search and organization. This approach leverages the Neural Engine of Apple's hardware.
Goodbye to the chaos of lost screenshots in the camera roll 📸
Now you can forget that photo gallery where the ticket to see your favorite band gets lost among memes and photos of a plate of lentils. Gigs ensures you don't have to search through hundreds of images, trying to remember if the concert was in 2022 or 2023. There's no longer an excuse to arrive a week late to the event because the date was hidden in an unread email. Organization, at last, comes to your musical life.