Garage
Your files, your Mac, your AI. Private RAG over MCP
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Garage is a free, open-source Mac app that turns the files you already have into a searchable library for your AI assistant. It indexes folders, git repositories, PDFs, Office documents, scanned images, Apple Mail and Messages into a private database on your Mac, and keyword search over the Model Context Protocol. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, LM Studio and any other MCP client can connect with one click. Garage uploads nothing: your assistant receives only the excerpts it searches for.
PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: model context protocol tools · 465 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -24% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- GitHub
- Apple
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More like this: all 465 launches in model context protocol tools →
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a standard RAG pipeline is simple, but building a native macOS app that hooks securely into Apple Mail/Messages sandboxes and efficiently indexes varied proprietary local formats while exposing an MCP server involves low-level platform APIs.
What it would actually take: The app requires Swift/SwiftUI or Electron with native bindings, accessing local storage through macOS permissions and Full Disk Access to parse Apple Mail SQLite databases and iMessage databases. Document parsing needs native or embedded parsers (PDFKit, pandoc, or Tesseract for OCR) and a local vector/full-text database like SQLite with sqlite-vec or LanceDB. Developers need macOS systems programming expertise and deep familiarity with Apple's sandbox constraints and Model Context Protocol (MCP) server specifications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 432 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #214 of 433 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 314 days after the earliest competitor.
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