Hister
Private search engine that indexes the pages you visit and the files you keep
Alternative to: Rewind
v0.20.0
2026-09-24Introduces browser and Raindrop.io imports, continuous file watching, diagnostic tools, allow rules, Prometheus monitoring, and structured CLI output.
v0.19.0
2026-09-03Introduces ChatGPT and Hacker News extractors, URL regex search, Safari history imports, terminal UI improvements, and enhanced search suggestions and previews.
v0.18.0
2026-08-23Introduces enhanced search suggestions, new social media extractors, local file imports, bulk document updates, and a revamped terminal interface.
v0.17.0
2026-07-28This 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
2026-07-01Introduces 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
2026-06-03Introduces 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
2026-05-11Introduces 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
2026-04-23Introduces 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
2026-04-09Introduces 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
2026-03-30This update introduces multi-user support, improved authentication, enhanced delete and history views, and updated skip rule management via the extension.
v0.10.0
2026-03-20Introduces a bulk API endpoint, browser extension theme and header support, and various fixes for file titles and date searches.
v0.9.0
2026-03-16Introduces local file indexing support, updates to Vite 8.0.0 and Rolldown, and includes various bug fixes and CI improvements.
v0.8.0
2026-03-09This release introduces shared UI components, Shiki syntax highlighting, Alpine base migration, and various UI fixes.
v0.7.0
2026-03-05Fixed the Docker front-end build process.
v0.6.0
2026-03-05This 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
2026-02-24This 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
2026-02-23Automated build from master branch commit 2e0eb4f.
v0.4.0
2026-02-20This 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
2026-02-04This release introduces configurable hotkey handling, a command line search interface, and various search enhancements, including priority result extraction and CSRF protection.
v0.2.0
2026-01-19This update introduces autocomplete query suggestions, readable result previews, an import command, and various bug fixes including CGO support for release builds.
v0.1.0
2026-01-15Initial release of the software.