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Implementing Fuzzy Search in iOS app

TLDR Joseph inquired about using typesense for offline local fuzzy search in an iOS app. Jason clarified that Typesense is server-software and cannot be run on a local iOS device.

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Joseph

03:33 AM

Hi everyone, we’re developing an iOS app which wants to have accurate and fast fuzzy search ability, just found typesense and sounds promising. Does anyone know if it’s possible to run typesense in local iOS device instead of hosting it on server? We want offline fuzzy search so that user data can be kept locally without incurring server cost and get instant response. We’re using a Swift library which does local fuzzy search called FuzzyFind https://github.com/truizlop/FuzzyFind, performance is okay but not great, hence we keep on looking for a better alternative, thanks.

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Jason

04:10 AM

> Does anyone know if it’s possible to run typesense in local iOS device instead of hosting it on server?
This is not possible to do with Typesense. It’s sever-software and needs to run on a linux server

Joseph

04:47 AM

That’s unfortunate. I am personally open to use fuzzy search cloud provider but need to convince other team members on this.

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