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DocuBrowser
Finally search your files by meaning. 100% local, 100% yours
I got tired of searching my own files and never finding anything. DocuBrowse fixes that — search by meaning, not just keywords, and it runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no account, no per-query fee. Free, open source, GPL-3.0.
Hey PH 👋
Backstory: I had something like 12,000 files scattered across my machine — PDFs, notes, old contracts, whatever — and I could never find the one I actually needed. Searching "that lease renewal thing" did nothing if those exact words weren't in the file. So I built DocuBrowse.
It indexes everything locally across 40+ formats — PDF, DOCX, EPUB, email, code, even diagrams — and search actually understands what you mean, not just what you typed. There's also Deep Links, which jumps you straight to the matching paragraph inside a doc instead of dumping you at the top of a 200-page PDF to go hunting.
All the AI runs on your own machine through Ollama. No API key, no account, nothing leaves your computer. It's free and GPL-3.0.
Runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Happy to answer anything — especially curious what people think of the search relevance.
About DocuBrowser on Product Hunt
“Finally search your files by meaning. 100% local, 100% yours”
DocuBrowser was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #145 on the daily leaderboard. I got tired of searching my own files and never finding anything. DocuBrowse fixes that — search by meaning, not just keywords, and it runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no account, no per-query fee. Free, open source, GPL-3.0.
On the analytics side, DocuBrowser competes within Productivity, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.7M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DocuBrowser performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted DocuBrowser?
DocuBrowser was hunted by James Sparenberg. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of DocuBrowser including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
James Sparenberg