Find the passage
Use Smart search to combine your words with related ideas, Meaning to explore, or Exact to stay with the phrase you remember.
FOR IPHONE & IPAD
The answer is in your files.
SearchThing brings PDFs, notes, photos, and other supported files into one private library. Find exact words or the idea behind them, then open the original source.
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First launch requires a roughly 329 MB model download from Hugging Face. Search and indexing then run on your device.
A better way to look
From a thought to the right document.
See the source
Open the original PDF or readable text, see where a result came from, and keep useful passages with pins and notes.
Keep your library local
Documents, search history, and the index stay on your iPhone or iPad. There is no account, ad network, or cloud search.
Yours to organize
One library. All your sources.
Add individual files or whole folders. Search across projects, inspect each match, and return to the passages you saved. Screens shown with sample documents.