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Work · August 19, 2026

fanSearch — full text Search APP

Private, Local, Fast

What it does

Local, instant, and fully under your control. Your files are yours. Your search should be too. fanSearch is a full-text search app that runs entirely on your machine. No cloud. No uploading. No background phoning home. Just you, your files, and a search index that you control. Index on your terms — You choose which folders to index, when to rebuild, and how deep to go. No mystery processes hogging your CPU.

Your files never leave your computer. Even when you can’t recall the exact words, fanSearch still finds them — and takes you straight to the exact page. Contracts, medical records, drafts, journals — nothing is ever uploaded. All indexing and searching happen entirely on your machine. No cloud, no account, no network required. Remember the idea but not the exact phrasing? Local AI semantic search finds the passage you mean — something keyword-only tools simply cannot do. Combined with precise keyword matching for the best of both. Most search tools handle Chinese poorly. fanSearch is built around proper Chinese word segmentation, so searching 时间同步 reliably finds 系统时间同步 — the way…from asharing.uk

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