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BeaconFind
Find any file by what's inside it. Private, on-device AI.
BeaconFind is an AI file search app for Windows, press Ctrl+K to find files on your PC by meaning, not just filename. 100% private & offline. Free 14-day trial.
Local AI products seem to be reaching the point where workflow matters more than privacy alone.
Curious—do users initially adopt BeaconFind because it's on-device, or because finding information becomes noticeably faster than existing search tools?
On-device search by content instead of filename is exactly what most people actually want but rarely get without sending data to the cloud. How does it handle non-text files — images, PDFs with scanned content, that kind of thing?
running the models locally for privacy makes sense, but I'm curious about the indexing side of that tradeoff. on a drive with a couple hundred GB of documents, does BeaconFind keep a background process re-indexing as files change, or is it more of an on-demand scan? asking because if I save a new file and search for it 30 seconds later, I want to know whether it'll actually show up yet or if there's a lag before it's searchable.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
BeaconFind is a desktop app that searches inside your files by meaning, not just the filename. Press Ctrl+K, type what you remember ("the lease with the pet clause", "invoice from the plumber"), and it finds the right file even if you saved it as scan_0043.pdf. It works across documents, images, screenshots, scanned PDFs, 70+ file types and 50+ languages.
It's a proper native app that runs a handful of small AI models locally, right on your PC. Nothing gets uploaded, there's no account, and the index is encrypted on disk. For a tool that reads everything you own, keeping it all on your machine felt like the only honest way to build it.
Honest bits up front: it's Windows-only for now, and it's paid, with a 14-day trial (€19 lifetime during launch).
I'll be here all day, so ask me anything. Happy to get into the weeds :)
About BeaconFind on Product Hunt
“Find any file by what's inside it. Private, on-device AI.”
BeaconFind was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 15 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #25 on the daily leaderboard. BeaconFind is an AI file search app for Windows, press Ctrl+K to find files on your PC by meaning, not just filename. 100% private & offline. Free 14-day trial.
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Local AI products seem to be reaching the point where workflow matters more than privacy alone.
Curious—do users initially adopt BeaconFind because it's on-device, or because finding information becomes noticeably faster than existing search tools?