Findrail
Local search for notes, code and text PDFs
This is 1 of 520 launches in document editing and PDF utilities — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
391 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1267808
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Findalo
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3309652131308182
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Search
- Fetched at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 5, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Search local notes, code and text PDFs. Preview matches, see PDF page numbers and copy file locations. Results update as files change. Documents stay on your machine. Free and open source for Linux, macOS and Windows. Early alpha.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document editing and PDF utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline local search tool for notes, code, and text pdfs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A local search tool across text/PDF files can easily be built using an Electron/Tauri frontend hooked into local file-watching APIs and an embedded full-text search index like SQLite FTS5 or Tantivy.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 391 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #152 of 392 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
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- paperlight · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Page Scanner · ph · 2026-09-28 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Click and Copy · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Free PDF Tools Online · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- PDF Tools Club · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48