Found, from zero to useful

Three minutes.
Four steps.

Found does not ask you to build a filing system. Create a private library on this device, save what matters, and search when you need it.

Open your local library

Step 01

Create your local library

In compatible desktop Chrome, pick a folder such asDocuments/Found so your canonical files are visible and easy to back up. On a phone, Found starts a private browser library in the installed web app—no folder picker or demo data in the way.

Desktop Chrome exampleFound/├── items/│ └── postgres-indexes.json├── assets/└── found.json

Step 02

Save the page in front of you

In the extension, clicking Found gives temporary access to the current page. Readable title and article text are extracted, written locally, and added to the search index. Found does not continuously watch your browsing.

While researching, right-click anywhere to Save page to Found. Highlight a passage first and choose Save selection to Found to create a focused note linked back to its source.

Right-click a link and choose Save link to Foundto keep a shared URL from WhatsApp Web, email, Reddit, X, or any other webpage without opening it first.

On Android, install Found and it appears in the system Share menu. Share a link, screenshot, photo, or PDF to Found and the local app opens to finish the save. On iPhone, add links inside Found; a native iOS Share-sheet companion is not available yet.

Found only reads a page after an explicit Save.

Step 03

Drop files. Search what is inside.

Import BMP, GIF, PNG, JPEG, or WebP screenshots in the mobile app, or drop them into the extension. Found runs OCR on your device, keeps each original in your local library, and writes the detected text into its matching item record. Desktop folder mode places those originals in assets. The image and OCR text are not uploaded.

The installed web app on iPhone and Android also accepts PDFs and indexes selectable text. A scanned PDF is still saved, but its pages are not OCR-searchable yet. The desktop extension additionally handles DOCX, text, Markdown, HTML, and saved.eml email files.

Open Found online before your first screenshot or PDF import so it can prepare the on-device reader. After it has been used once, those reader files are available offline.

I made 3,000 screenshots searchable without uploading any of them.

Step 04

Search the words you remember

Search the title, source site, or full page text. Found uses a local index with prefix and fuzzy matching, so a query likepostgress indx can still retrieve an article about PostgreSQL indexes.

postgress indx1 result

About this build

One product, with storage shaped for each device.

The Chrome extension performs real active-page capture, canonical folder writes, local screenshot OCR, PDF and document text extraction, saved email-file parsing, cache rebuilding, fuzzy search, local preview, and result opening. The mobile web app creates a real on-device library, imports screenshots and PDFs locally, and receives Android shares. iPhone Share-sheet capture still requires a native companion, so the web app does not pretend otherwise.