Private AI file search · Windows

Find anything on your PC.
By meaning. Privately.

Search inside your files, even when you’ve forgotten what you named them. The AI runs entirely on your machine, so your files, their contents and your searches stay with you.

Hybrid Everywhere All files
Searching 22 files right here in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere, exactly like the real app.

Windows 10 & 11 · on-device search · no telemetry · 14-day trial · 30-day refund

You know it’s in there
somewhere.

The right file always exists, buried under a thousand others, with a name that made sense six months ago. Folder-diving and keyword search give up right when you need them.

Getting started

Three steps, then just ask.

1

Add your folders

Point BeaconFind at where your files live: Documents, Desktop, that chaotic Downloads folder.

2

It reads everything, on your device

A local AI quietly understands every document, image, and note. No cloud, no uploads, nothing sent anywhere.

3

Press Ctrl K and ask

Describe what you remember in plain language. The right file surfaces instantly.

See it work

The whole thing in fifty seconds.

Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. Watch on YouTube instead.

What it finds

However you remember it, you can find it.

By meaning, across languages, inside images, or just by asking.

Describe what you half-remember, and it finds the file.

Ask for “the quarterly financial report” and BeaconFind surfaces the right document, because it understands meaning. Search is instant.

Hybrid Everywhere
3 results · searched locally in 0.02s
Q4 Budget Proposal.docxdocx184 KB2h ago
Work / Finance / 2024
Projected Q4 operating budget with department allocations and a 12% increase in marketing spend for the holiday campaign.
Content+2 more sections
Monthly Expenses.xlsxxlsx212 KB1d ago
Work / Finance
Categorized monthly expenses: rent, utilities, groceries, and subscriptions, with running totals per category.
Content
Thesis Draft v3.docxdocx1.6 MB1w ago
University / Research
Chapter 4: results and discussion of the semantic retrieval experiments and their retrieval accuracy.
Content

Type in one language, find files in another.

BeaconFind understands 50+ languages and searches across all of them at once. Look for an idea in the words you think in, and it surfaces the right document whatever language it was written in. No translating, no re-typing.

Hybrid 50+ languages
3 results · matched across languages
Bulletin_de_paie_juillet.pdfpdf96 KB1w ago
Documents / Finances
Bulletin de paie juillet 2024. Salaire brut, cotisations sociales, net a payer en fin de mois.
Semantic
Nomina_2024.xlsxxlsx44 KB2w ago
Documentos / Finanzas
Nomina mensual: salario bruto, deducciones y pago neto. Incluye el total anual y las primas.
Semantic
Payslip_July.pdfpdf31 KB1mo ago
Documents / Work
Monthly payslip: gross pay, deductions and net amount, with year-to-date totals.
Semantic

It even looks inside your images.

Screenshots, scans and photos, all found by what they show. “Whiteboard sketch” finds the photo, no filename needed.

Semantic Images
3 results · matched on visual content
whiteboard-sketch.pngpng1.1 MB1d ago
Work / Notes
AI description: A hand-drawn system architecture diagram photographed off a whiteboard, boxes, arrows, a database.
Semantic
mountain-sunset.jpgjpg4.2 MB3d ago
Pictures / Travel
AI description: A golden sunset spilling over a jagged mountain range, orange and violet sky, peaks in silhouette.
Filename
family-picnic.heicheic3.8 MB5d ago
Pictures / Family
AI description: A family spread out on a checkered blanket, having a picnic in a green sunlit park.
Semantic

What does this contract actually say?

Get answers straight from your own documents, with citations you can open, and the model never phones home. Search is instant; an AI answer takes a few seconds while it reads the pages.

When is the office lease up for renewal?
Your lease renews on March 31, 2026. A 12-month term with 60 days’ notice required. Lease Agreement Signed.pdf
What’s the deposit clause?Open the PDF
By meaning

Control

You decide what gets indexed, and when.

Search is one keystroke away. When you want to get specific, there are five search modes, stacking filters over real metadata, and saved views, plus full control over how it runs in the background.

Ready to Search
6,842 files indexed across 4 folders.
Press  Ctrl K  anywhere to search your files by meaning.
Your library
6,842
Files
4
Folders
38,201
Chunks
214 MB
Index size
Recent activity
DOCXQ4 Budget Proposal.docx2h ago
MDMeeting Notes 2024-03-12.md8h ago
XLSXMonthly Expenses.xlsx1d ago
JPGmountain-sunset.jpg3d ago
PYauth_handler.py12h ago

Filters & saved views

Stack type, date, size and metadata filters, then save the set and reuse it in one click.

Find duplicates

Spot identical and near-identical files and reclaim the space they waste.

AI rename

Turn final_v3_FINAL(2).docx into a name that says what’s inside.

Active hours

Tell it to index only overnight, or only while you’re away.

Performance & Gaming modes

One switch pauses background work and frees the GPU for your game.

Adapts to your PC

Picks a light or full AI tier to match your machine, GPU or not.

Under the hood, private by design

Real AI models, running on your machine.

The whole stack ships inside the app and runs on your PC. No cloud, no API keys, nothing phones home, so your files, their contents, your searches and your index never leave. That’s not a policy. It’s the architecture.

Understanding text

A multilingual sentence-embedding model (MiniLM) reads 50+ languages into a shared meaning space.

Seeing images

CLIP embeds photos and screenshots; a vision model (Moondream) captions them; Windows OCR pulls out any text.

Answering questions

A local language model (Qwen 2.5) reads the retrieved passages and answers with citations you can open.

Ranking results

Hybrid keyword plus semantic retrieval, merged and re-scored by a cross-encoder reranker for the final order.

See the full list
Documents
PDFDOCXTXTMDRTFEPUB
Spreadsheets
XLSXXLSCSVODS
Slides
PPTXPPTODP
Images
JPGPNGHEICWEBPTIFFRAW
Audio
MP3FLACWAVM4AOGG
Video
MP4MKVMOVAVI
Code
PYJSTSRSGOJAVAC++
Config & data
JSONYAMLTOMLXMLENV

…and 40+ more: LaTeX, SVG, subtitles, RTF, Markdown, and more.

Pricing

Pick the plan that fits you.

Launch price until 9 August.Then €2/mo and €49 lifetime.

Same full app either way: search by meaning, local AI chat, photo search, OCR, 70+ file types, everything on your PC. The only difference is how you pay.

Monthly
€2€1/mo
The full app, by subscription.
  • Everything in BeaconFind
  • For 1 PC
  • Cancel anytime
Start monthly

Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial (no card, just an email for your key) and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Go ahead, press it for real.

Ready when you are.

Full features for 14 days. No card, just an email for your key.

Download for Windows Download started

Windows 10 & 11 · installer ~12 MB · signed · no telemetry

Check your browser’s downloads, usually bottom-left, or press Ctrl+J.

On first run it downloads the AI models once (about 0.8 GB on the light tier, a few GB on higher ones), then works fully offline.

Will Windows or my browser warn me?It might, because the app is new. It’s signed by its developer (not “Unknown publisher”), and SmartScreen reputation builds up over time. If your browser asks, click Keep; if Windows shows a blue box, click More info, then Run anyway.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask.

Still unsure? Email [email protected] and a real person answers.

Is my data really private?

Yes, and it's built in, not promised. Your database is encrypted on disk with a key derived from your machine, so copying the folder to another PC leaves it unreadable. Want to be sure? Block BeaconFind at your firewall. Search, indexing and AI all keep working, because they were never talking to a server.

Which systems does it run on?

Windows 10 and 11 (64-bit). macOS and Linux are on the roadmap.

What's in the free trial?

Everything, for 14 days. No card, no password, just an email so we can send you your key. If you love it, pick monthly or lifetime. If not, just uninstall.

Monthly or lifetime, what's the difference?

It's the same app either way. Monthly is €1/mo during the launch (cancel anytime); lifetime is a one-time €19 during the launch and includes free updates forever.

How many devices can I use?

A lifetime license covers up to 3 of your own PCs; the monthly plan covers 1 PC. You can deactivate a device anytime from Settings, Account (or portal.beaconfind.app) to free up a slot.

Can I get a refund?

Yes, a 30-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked.

Will Windows warn me when I install it?

It might, because the app is new. The installer and the app are both signed, so it's not “Unknown publisher”, but SmartScreen reputation still builds up with downloads over time. If you see a blue box, click More info, then Run anyway. You can confirm the signature yourself: right-click the file, Properties, Digital Signatures.

Will it slow down my computer?

It indexes quietly in the background, and a resource governor eases off the moment you touch the machine. You can also pause it, or switch to Performance or Gaming mode, anytime. Search itself is instant.