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CLUSTER ANSWERS-DOCUMENT-LOCAL · 19 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-21

Local-first cited document search

The cluster consists of local-first document search applications that retrieve passages by meaning, answer questions with cited sources, and generate quick or deep research reports from private files. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—it predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, kinvault has the highest star count (2 stars), with findrail and lantrn at 1 star each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 9OCT 2026: 9
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 13 hobby · 1 indie · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 19 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01findrail1★6 days—hobbyLocal-first search app that indexes folders of notes, code, and PDFs, finds matching passages with page numbers, and refreshes live as files change.
  2. 02lantrn1★17 dayslivehobbySelf-hosted document search app that indexes uploaded files or crawled websites for semantic search and answers questions from the results via an LLM.
  3. 03Motor_DATABiQ1★4 days—Local-first knowledge app that converts PDFs, photos, audio, and video into one searchable memory and answers questions with citations.
  4. 04kinvault2★1 molivehand-codedhobbyLocal-first family document vault that organizes documents, extracts cited answers, and gives privacy controls.
  5. 05museum-evidence-lab0★20 days—hobbyLocal-first app that helps science museum staff draft and evaluate explanations from internal documents with citations and failure analysis.
  6. 06Mnemosyne0★22 days—hobbyLocal document search app that ingests uploaded files, retrieves passages by meaning, and answers questions with cited sources.
  7. 07invoice-rag0★24 days—hobbyLocal-first web app that extracts data from invoices, receipts, and contracts, validates it, and answers questions by searching stored documents with citations.
  8. 08silo0★4 daysliveAir-gapped document search tool that indexes local files and lets users retrieve answers with page-level citations, entirely offline.
  9. 09documind-rag0★5 days—hand-codedhobbyLocal RAG app that ingests PDFs and Word files, retrieves with hybrid search,and streams cited answers to questions.
  10. 10SearchRAGJev0★7 days—hobbyLocal-first document search app that retrieves cited answers from private files and produces quick answers and deep research reports.
  11. 11commonplace0★7 dayslivehobbyOffline Android app that answers research questions from reference texts stored on the device, with source citations.
  12. 12RAG-Pipeline-Hybrid-Search0★19 days—Document search and question-answering platform that retrieves relevant passages, verifies citations, and scores confidence entirely offline.
  13. 13structrag0★12 days—hobbyLocal-first document question-answering tool that locates relevant sections, answers with citations, and refuses when documents lack the answer.
  14. 14ai-hujjat0★6 days—Offline document search and question-answering app that highlights exact source quotes for cited answers.
  15. 15SearchRAGNoJev0★7 days—Local-first document search app that provides citation-checked answers and generates quick and deep research reports from personal documents.
  16. 16mindvault0★13 days—hobbyDesktop app that captures clipboard content, screenshots, local files, and web articles into a searchable knowledge base and answers questions with cited sources.
  17. 17aidocstudio0★11 days—hobbyPrivate local-first document intelligence app that performs OCR, extracts fields with cited evidence, and answers questions from personal files.
  18. 18sovereign-ai-memory0★1 mo—hand-codedindieLocal-first search utility that indexes conversations from Codex, Claude Code, and Grok and retrieves cited context into Markdown.
  19. 19atheneum0★1 mo—hobbyLocal-first research app that searches personal notes and answers questions with cited passages, fully offline.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.