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CLUSTER DESKTOP-SEMANTIC-ACROSS · 11 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-10-09

Offline semantic file search apps

This cluster consists of offline Windows desktop apps that use semantic embeddings to search files by their content across documents, PDFs, and photos. The dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from — it predates the index or its members are undated. On traction, filedig leads with 37 stars, followed by paperlight with 12 stars and SnipBoard with 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 6
SEP 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 · 1 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled

Operator · 9 hobby · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01filedig37★4 days—hobbyDesktop app that finds files by what they contain, using local semantic search across documents, PDFs, and photos on Windows.
  2. 02paperlight12★18 dayslivehobbyDesktop app that searches PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents by file name or text content, keeping search local and private.
  3. 03SnipBoard1★17 dayslivehand-codedhobbyWindows desktop app that organizes local screenshots and images into a searchable library with tags, filters, and a reference canvas.
  4. 04dejanote0★12 days—hobbyCommand-line app that finds notes by meaning rather than keywords using local semantic embeddings, entirely offline.
  5. 05FolderMind0★6 days—Offline desktop app that performs semantic search across every document in a folder.
  6. 06DigUp-Windows0★2 dayslivehobbyWindows desktop app that searches files by their content locally with semantic embeddings, fully offline and private.
  7. 07ArshivJooy0★28 days—hobbyOffline semantic search engine that indexes personal documents and images, enabling text and visual queries in Persian and English.
  8. 08knowark-hub0★3 days—Windows desktop app that one-click deploys a private knowledge base with document parsing, web search, and local AI models, paired via QR code.
  9. 09docmind0★5 days—hobbyPrivate local-first document knowledge base that ingests documents, performs semantic search, and auto-tags content entirely offline.
  10. 10SeekLocal0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that searches local documents by meaning and keyword, returns matches, and opens the original file while keeping everything offline.
  11. 11SeekLocal0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop search app that finds local documents by keyword or meaning without uploading files, jumping directly to original files.

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.