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Hister

Private search engine that indexes the pages you visit and the files you keep

Alternative to: Rewind


About Versions (21)

v0.20.0

2026-09-24

Introduces browser and Raindrop.io imports, continuous file watching, diagnostic tools, allow rules, Prometheus monitoring, and structured CLI output.

v0.19.0

2026-09-03

Introduces ChatGPT and Hacker News extractors, URL regex search, Safari history imports, terminal UI improvements, and enhanced search suggestions and previews.

v0.18.0

2026-08-23

Introduces enhanced search suggestions, new social media extractors, local file imports, bulk document updates, and a revamped terminal interface.

v0.17.0

2026-07-28

This release introduces unified imports, persistent crawl jobs, an expanded query language, DOCX support, and CJK language indexing, alongside significant improvements to semantic indexing and the search interface.

v0.16.0

2026-07-01

Introduces public search mode, documentation datasets, enhanced extractors for StackExchange and Markdown/Org, MCP history reporting, and improved search sorting and import/export capabilities.

v0.15.0

2026-06-03

Introduces document versioning, PDF indexing, faceted filtering, and new extractors for videos and Notion, alongside disk space optimizations and improved user-specific indexing.

v0.14.0

2026-05-11

Introduces a Mastodon extractor, metadata query filtering, a new WebDriver BiDi crawler backend, and numerous UI improvements including infinite scroll and full-screen preview.

v0.13.0

2026-04-23

Introduces semantic search, OAuth/OIDC authentication, an MCP server, persistent crawler state, and various new content extractors alongside general CLI and UI enhancements.

v0.12.0

2026-04-09

Introduces a recursive web crawler, PostgreSQL backend support, a revamped extractor pipeline, and a desktop readability panel alongside various enhancements and bug fixes.

v0.11.0

2026-03-30

This update introduces multi-user support, improved authentication, enhanced delete and history views, and updated skip rule management via the extension.

v0.10.0

2026-03-20

Introduces a bulk API endpoint, browser extension theme and header support, and various fixes for file titles and date searches.

v0.9.0

2026-03-16

Introduces local file indexing support, updates to Vite 8.0.0 and Rolldown, and includes various bug fixes and CI improvements.

v0.8.0

2026-03-09

This release introduces shared UI components, Shiki syntax highlighting, Alpine base migration, and various UI fixes.

v0.7.0

2026-03-05

Fixed the Docker front-end build process.

v0.6.0

2026-03-05

This release introduces a comprehensive website redesign with a brutalist layout, improves mobile responsiveness, refactors the build system and packaging, and adds several bug fixes and feature enhancements.

v0.5.0

2026-02-24

This release introduces multi-stage distroless Docker images, a Viper configuration loader, case-insensitive search, and various bug fixes for the TUI and Nix scripts.

rolling

2026-02-23

Automated build from master branch commit 2e0eb4f.

v0.4.0

2026-02-20

This release introduces a rewritten TUI using Bubble Tea, adds result exporting, expands search provider support with DuckDuckGo, and implements multiple URL support and date filtering.

v0.3.0

2026-02-04

This release introduces configurable hotkey handling, a command line search interface, and various search enhancements, including priority result extraction and CSRF protection.

v0.2.0

2026-01-19

This update introduces autocomplete query suggestions, readable result previews, an import command, and various bug fixes including CGO support for release builds.

v0.1.0

2026-01-15

Initial release of the software.