An open-source
digital filing cabinet
for your desktop

Organize, search, and preview your personal and work documents—all on your machine, with nothing in the cloud.

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Your documents are scattered.

Some are in Downloads.

Some are in old folders.

Some belong to work, others to life.

You need a system. Not another folder.

What File Harbor does

One cabinet

One library for everything—or a separate one for work and life. Every document lands in your Inbox, ready to be filed into a category.

Labeled drawers

Fourteen clear categories from Identity to Utilities. No tags, no endless folders. Like a filing cabinet—the structure is already there.

Built for trust

Files stay on your machine. Duplicates are caught automatically. Back up and restore any time. No accounts, no cloud.

How it works

Three steps. No learning curve.

  1. 01

    Drop it in

    Drag and drop files, import a whole folder, or set up a watched folder that files things automatically.

  2. 02

    File it once

    Pick a category—or let File Harbor suggest one. It reads your PDFs and recommends where things belong.

  3. 03

    Find it fast

    Open a category, search across filenames and document text, or preview files without leaving the app.

What's in the cabinet

Full-text search

Search across filenames and the text inside your PDFs.

Smart suggestions

Category and filename suggestions from extracted text.

In-app preview

View PDFs, images, and text files without switching apps.

Multiple workspaces

Separate libraries for different areas of your life.

Duplicate detection

Same file twice? File Harbor catches it automatically.

Bulk import and export

Import folders, export your whole library organized by category.

Backup and restore

Back up a workspace and restore it whenever you need.

Broad file support

PDFs, images, Office docs, text, and Markdown.

File Harbor suggests categories and filenames using keyword matching—no setup needed. For smarter suggestions, connect a local Ollama model. Still private, still on your machine.

Who it's for

  • People who want a calm home for personal documents
  • Freelancers and side projects that need separation from life files
  • Anyone tired of messy folders and tag chaos
  • Anyone who wants their documents searchable by content, not just filename
  • People who care where their data lives

What it deliberately does not do

It's a filing cabinet, not an office suite.

No collaboration. No feeds. No dashboards.

Just a reliable place for documents you'll need again.

Product principles

  • Calm over clever
  • Structure over configuration
  • Local-first by default
  • Built to last

Ready to stop
losing files?

Download File Harbor

No account required. Your files stay on your machine. Open source on GitHub.