Skylum offers Smart Search in Luminar Neo, a machine learning feature that lets users find photos in their personal catalog by describing image content — such as 'Christmas tree' or 'car in front of mountains' — rather than relying only on filenames or dates. It was introduced in the Fall 2024 upgrade.

Smart Search receives a text query from the user as input, uses machine learning models that run locally on the user's device to analyze the visual content of images in the photo catalog, and returns a filtered list of matching photos. It can recognize objects, scenes, and descriptive concepts within images. The feature is available to Luminar Neo subscribers and Upgrade Pass 2024/25 holders; basic catalog improvements are available to all users.