Search

Find files without sending them anywhere

Search is a document search tool that runs entirely in your browser. Use the hosted version right now, or download it and keep using it with no internet connection at all. It's the same app either way.

Use it online

Open the hosted version in Edge or Chrome and point it at a folder. Nothing is installed, and nothing is uploaded either way.

Open search.siganor.com

Download it, use it offline

It's a plain HTML and JS page, no build step, no dependencies to install. Download it from GitHub, open index.html, and it works with no internet connection at all.

Get it on GitHub
Screenshot of Search, running in the browser

What it does

Live folder scan

Point it at any folder on your computer. It always reflects what's actually on disk, no index to rebuild.

Full-text PDF search

Searches inside PDFs, .txt and .htm files, with a highlighted snippet under each match. Also finds duplicates by hashing every file.

Favorites and collections

Star files you care about, group files into collections, and see what you've opened recently.

Built for keyboard use

Press / to search, arrow keys and Enter to jump between results, Esc to clear.

Export and backup

Export your current results as a Markdown list, and back up your favorites and collections to a .json file.

Nothing ever uploaded

No server, no account, no analytics. Your files are read directly from disk by your browser and never leave your machine.

Search needs a Chromium-based browser (Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome) to read folders from disk. Firefox and Safari don't support that yet, and Search will tell you if you open it there. MIT licensed: use it, fork it, adapt it.