28 stories tagged local-first, newest first.
29 points by cyrillsemah | 8 comments
Landing page for Sygal, a desktop app that converts PDFs, Office files, scans, web pages and YouTube links into Markdown and JSON locally for AI use.
16 points by swimmingbrain | 0 comments
GitHub repository for braiNOTES, an MIT-licensed browser app for handwritten pen notes and whiteboarding on lecture PDFs, stored locally with no account or backend.
36 points by jv22222 | 5 comments
Landing page for Breadcrumb, a free local encrypted Mac app that records screen, meetings, and AI transcripts and exposes them as memory to AI tools via MCP.
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26 points by surprisetalk | 5 comments
A YouTube video from Ink & Switch and Local-First Conf presenting PlayBook, a programmable paper notebook.
144 points by evakhoury | 69 comments
Ink & Switch essay (June 2025) envisioning malleable software that users can reshape to their needs, and the barriers in today's computing stack to achieving it.
25 points by kdautaj | 6 comments
Ekselio is an LLM-driven web app that builds finance analysis workflows as visual canvases running SQL locally in the browser, with QuickBooks, FRED and stock data connectors.
352 points by bashtian | 150 comments
Landing page for Capsule, a desktop app that packages HTML apps, assets, and user data into a single portable SQLite-based .capsule file.
1452 points by amatheus | 389 comments
Landing page for OpenLogi, a local-first, Rust-based open-source alternative to Logitech Options+ for remapping mouse buttons, DPI and SmartShift over HID++.
437 points by howToTestFE | 204 comments
A blog post by Dennis Brotzky breaking down the technical architecture that makes the Linear issue tracker feel fast.
355 points by thomascountz | 156 comments
Blog post introducing hashcards, a local-first spaced repetition app that stores flashcards as plain Markdown files and schedules reviews with FSRS.
641 points by a-fadil | 201 comments
Landing page for Wealthfolio, an open-source, private investment tracker running locally on desktop, iOS, and as a self-hosted Docker image.
456 points by marcobambini | 446 comments
Substack essay by Marco Bambini arguing that local-first, offline-capable apps remain rare because getting data synchronization right is surprisingly hard.
508 points by homebrewer | 273 comments
GitHub repository for Zedless, a work-in-progress fork of the Zed code editor focused on privacy and being local-first.
533 points by braden-w | 135 comments
GitHub directory for Whispering, an open-source, local-first speech-to-text dictation app within the Epicenter monorepo, built with Tauri.
399 points by jcusch | 191 comments
Blog post describing how using Linear's fast project management app led the author to explore local-first software architecture and sync engines.
327 points by surprisetalk | 29 comments
Blog post announcing Automerge 3.0, a local-first data sync engine release that cuts memory usage by over 10x and cleans up text APIs.
795 points by gasull | 269 comments
Ink & Switch essay from April 2019 proposing local-first software principles for collaboration and data ownership, surveying storage approaches and CRDTs.
355 points by x0z | 78 comments
GitHub repository for OpenFLOW, a React-based tool for quickly creating infrastructure diagrams locally on your machine.
466 points by gjvc | 162 comments
Homepage of Jazz, an open-source toolkit that replaces APIs, databases, and message queues with synced "Collaborative Values" for building apps with distributed state.
475 points by nwienert | 215 comments
Landing page for One, a new React framework built on Vite that unifies web and React Native apps with typed file-system routing and local-first support via Zero.
862 points by a-fadil | 249 comments
Landing page for Wealthfolio, an open-source desktop investment tracker that stores financial data locally without subscriptions or cloud services.
441 points by samwillis | 99 comments
Homepage for PGlite, an embeddable WASM build of Postgres that runs in the browser, Node.js and Bun with reactive queries and server sync.
538 points by WhyNotHugo | 227 comments
Nikita Prokopov (tonsky) blog post on building local-first apps with CRDTs synced via ordinary file-sync services like Dropbox.
592 points by samwillis | 226 comments
Blog post by Matt Ferraro announcing CADmium, an open-source, local-first CAD program that runs in the browser, and inviting contributors.
400 points by setnone | 112 comments
Landing page for grafychat, a browser-based, local-first non-linear canvas UI for chatting with AI models like OpenAI, Gemini and Ollama using your own API keys.
523 points by thunderbong | 265 comments
Blog post by Carl Sverre arguing that frontend apps end up reimplementing database features like caches and indexes, and proposing a frontend-optimized database stack.
562 points by samwillis | 161 comments
Homepage of ElectricSQL, an open-source sync layer for building reactive, realtime, local-first apps on Postgres with active-active sync to SQLite.
356 points by TTTZ | 228 comments
Landing page for Anytype, a local-first, peer-to-peer "everything app" for notes and knowledge management positioned as a Notion alternative.