BeaconFind

BeaconFind is an AI productivity tool — a desktop app that searches your files by meaning instead of by filename, running entirely on-device. It indexes the contents of documents, images, and metadata so you can find a file you remember the content of but not what you named it. Search runs inside your files across 70+ file types including documents, spreadsheets, code, audio, and video, and it works offline with no connection required. On-device OCR reads text over screenshots and scanned PDFs, and image recognition lets you search photos by what they show. A built-in local AI chat answers questions by synthesizing information from your indexed files and cites its sources, and a duplicate detector finds identical and near-identical files to reclaim storage. An overlay interface — press Ctrl+K or Option+Space — floats a search card over whatever you are doing. Because the AI runs locally, your files stay on your machine, which suits privacy-conscious work. For readers on BestAIFor comparing file-search tools, BeaconFind runs on Windows 10/11 and Apple Silicon Macs and is aimed at people managing large, information-heavy file collections.

Finding local files by their content across 70+ file types, searching screenshots and scanned PDFs via on-device OCR, and reclaiming storage by spotting duplicates.