Hister
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Your own search engine. Hister turns the pages you visit and the files you keep into a private, full content search index that you control.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
EUPlatforms
- Mozilla Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- Docker
- Nix Package Manager
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Full-Text Search
- File content indexing
- Semantic Search
- Indexed search
- File Search
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Recent activities
- POX added File Search as a feature to Hister
POX added Hister as alternative to Everything, Microsoft PowerToys, Flow Launcher and Raycast- POX added Hister
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Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is Hister?
Hister is a private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep. It indexes their full contents so you can find information again from the web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected through MCP.
Features:
- Privacy focused: No telemetry or mandatory cloud service. Run Hister locally or on infrastructure you control.
- Full text indexing: Search the actual contents of visited pages and local files, not only titles and URLs.
- Automatic browser indexing: Save newly visited pages with the Firefox or Chrome extension.
- Powerful queries: Use field filters, phrases, wildcards, negation, aliases, and result priorities.
- Optional semantic search: Find documents by meaning through an embeddings endpoint you configure.
- Crawler and browser import: Index websites or bring in existing browser history.
- Web, terminal, and MCP clients: Search from the browser, TUI, command line, or an AI assistant.
- Multi user support: Keep each user's documents and search results separate on a shared server.