R.E.A.D
Search your files and get quoted answers - 100% offline
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Details
- External ID
- 1267220
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- R.E.A.D
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Productivity, Search
Description
R.E.A.D answers questions from your own documents, entirely on your PC. Add a web page, PDF, text, or code file, then ask in plain English. It finds and quotes the exact passages that answer you, with the source named. No AI model, no API key, no account, no subscription - it searches and ranks your own text instead of writing new text, so it never makes things up. If nothing matches, it says so instead of guessing. Windows only, one download, offline except when reading a web address.
Enrichment
- Niche
- semantic search and rag tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- offline semantic search and q&a for local files
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An offline desktop document search tool can be vibe-coded using Electron/Tauri with standard text extraction libraries (PDF.js, mammoth) and traditional algorithmic search like BM25 or SQLite FTS5.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 24 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 25 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- LetMeShowYouSomething · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- EasyRead · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- PersonalRAGVault · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Cited AI · hn · 2026-01-07 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Subturtle · ph · 2026-10-07 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- Citeon · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files · hn · 2026-01-14 · 211 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Doc2Quiz · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.33
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