A curated list of personal search engines and related projects
Legend:
Open-Source / Source-Available, linked
Hacker-News Discussion, linked
Self-Hosted
Cloud (aka not Self-Hosted)
Monocle — a universal, personal search engine-
Apollo — a Unix-style personal search engine and web crawler for your digital footprint - APSE, A Personal Search Engine — Search anything you view on the web or your computer
- Sehn — a personal search engine for the content you care about
Operand — Build and share your own indexes from sources across the web- Recoll — full-text search for your desktop
- LetsFind — a private search engine that integrates with your personal knowledge sources
- Searchable — One search for all your files
Content with a Focus on Building/Analyzing/Discussing Search Engines
- Articles
- Videos
Tools with a Focus on Storing or Resurfacing Content
- Promnesia — a browser extension that serves as a web surfing copilot by enhancing your browsing history
- Heyday — an AI-powered memory assistant that resurfaces content you forgot about
- Dashworks — a searchable company knowledge base
- mymind — an extension for your mind
Search Engines with a Focus on Private Data or Privacy
- mwmbl — a free, open-source and non-profit search engine
- DuckDuckGo — an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy
- You.com — an ad-free, private search engine that you control
Tools for Thought with a Focus on Search
- Logseq — a privacy-first, open-source knowledge base
- Obsidian — a knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
- Muse — your tool for deep work on iPad and Mac
- Roam Research — a note taking tool for networked thought.
- Anytype.io — an operating system for life
Notice — This information is supplied without liability. No responsibility is taken for the correctness of this information. If you notice anything incorrect, please open a PR. — The ranking of items is loosely based on publication time, whether the product is open-source, and whether the data is self-hosted.