Fouine 1.0.0

First public version. Fouine indexes the documents in the folders you choose and searches them, on your Mac, without sending anything anywhere.

What it does

• Full-text search across your documents, page by page, with the folder, the file type, the language, the year and the origin of the text as facets. Every result says why it was found.
• Search that tolerates typos, which matters on scanned pages.
• Search by meaning, with an optional 220 MB model downloaded on request, combined with full-text search.
• Text recognition for scanned pages, on the Mac, with the languages you pick.
• Around 150 file formats: PDF, EPUB, Office and iWork documents, Markdown, e-mail, comics, notebooks, images, audio and video (transcribed), Apple Notes, Bear and Anki as sources.
• A background agent that keeps the index up to date, and a command line (fouine) that shares it.
• An MCP server (fouine mcp --stdio), read-only, so an assistant such as Claude, Codex, Cursor or Antigravity can search the index and read a page with citations. fouine mcp install configures the clients in one command; a .mcpb extension installs into Claude Desktop with a double-click.
• Fouine's documents in Spotlight, three Shortcuts actions, and a preview that quotes: a fouine:// link reopens a document at the right page.
• English and French, automatic updates (off by default), a 30-day trial with everything switched on.

Privacy: no document, no search and no usage data leaves your Mac. The four outgoing connections, and how to check them yourself: https://basedpolymer.eu/fouine/privacy

Install: open Fouine-1.0.0.dmg and drag Fouine onto Applications. Product page and licence: https://basedpolymer.eu/fouine — guide for assistants: https://basedpolymer.eu/fouine/mcp

The complete list of changes is in CHANGELOG.md. SHA256SUMS carries the checksums of the files below.