Upload photos and docs
All uploaded files are auto-summarized and categorized for you. Filing docs is a breeze.
Bring sanity to your household paperwork
Harbor is your open source document vault that transforms record management in your home. Connect your inbox or upload files and see Harbor work to tag, sort, and retrieve.
Ditch the filing cabinet.
Harbor was designed from the ground up to tame your document chaos. Connect your inbox, upload important documents, and have Harbor remind you of important deadlines. Passports expiring? Bills due? Harbor has got your back. As an open source solution, Harbor is community driven with a variety of connectors and integrations.
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Capture directly from your inbox
Harbor categorizes important documents directly from your Gmail inbox. Auto-tagging puts due bills into your Harbor task list.
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Find anything, instantly
Full text indexing means instant access to any document with multi-language support. Search in English even if your docs are German.
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Your data, on your device
With carrier-grade security, Harbor can be a self-hosted solution. Your data is not stored in the cloud, managed by a company. You control access, storage, and backup.
Paperwork that files itself.
Tagged automatically
Every document gets tags pulled from its own content: the insurer, the address, the year, “tax-deductible”. A filter finds what a folder never could.
Search intuitively
Find documents using multi-language support. Automated tagging makes finding things easy.
Share with tax advisers
Secure sharing with tax advisers. You control who can download and when links expire.
A LOOK INSIDE
See how Harbor works
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01 / 04Home: everyone and everything
The household on one page: each person and each thing you own, with what’s on file and the next date that matters.
OPEN SOURCE VS. HOSTED
The open source alternative.
| Question | Hosted servicesHOSTED · TRUSTWORTHY, EVERPLANS, PRISIDIO, A DRIVE FOLDER | HarborOPEN SOURCE · SELF-HOSTED · COMMUNITY-BUILT |
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| Where the records live | On the company’s servers, usually rented from a cloud provider, reachable from the public internet with a password. | On your own hardware, in your house or on a server you rent, reachable only over your own network. |
| Who can read them | The company’s systems, staff with access, and whichever AI and search vendors it uses, under a privacy policy that can change. | You and the people you invite. There is no vendor account, and the encryption keys never leave your disk. |
| If there’s a breach | One target holding thousands of households’ passports and deeds. You find out when they disclose it. | Your box is nobody’s honeypot. Nothing listens on the public internet, and nothing phones home. |
| If the company changes course | Acquisitions, price increases, features moved behind a paywall, shutdowns. An export window if you’re lucky. | There is no company to change course. The code is AGPL-3.0 and can be forked, audited and kept running by anyone; your files stay plain files on disk. |
| Who builds it, and how you know | A company, on a roadmap you don’t see. Security claims are claims; the code is closed. | A community, in the open. Every line of code, every issue and the roadmap are on GitHub. Read it before you trust it. |
| What it costs | $10 to $40 a month per household, tiered by storage, seats and inboxes, for as long as you want the records to exist. | Free. A small Linux box you already own, or a $5 to $10 VPS. No tiers, no seats. |
| If your records are subpoenaed | The request goes to the company. It can be compelled to hand over what it holds, and it may be barred from telling you. | There is no third party to ask. Anyone who wants your records has to come to you, and you will know. |
Hosted pricing from trustworthy.com, everplans.com and prisidio.com, September 2026. Nothing here is legal advice; how a request for records is handled depends on where you and the provider are.
WHAT’S IN THE BOX
Everything the binder was for.
Email ingest
One address for the household. Forward the bill, the policy, the school letter. It’s waiting, already read, when you get home.
Upload anything
PDFs, phone photos, a decade of scans in one ZIP. Harbor spots what it has already seen and files the rest.
Read on every page
Crooked phone shots and forty-page contracts alike become searchable text, in the languages your paperwork actually arrives in.
Indexing and search
Full text across the whole library, narrowed by person, property, category or date. The matching line shows before you open anything.
Categories and subjects
Papers belong to people, and to things. The house, the car, the joint account, the dog. Open any of them and the whole file is there.
Backups you’ve actually restored
Encrypted snapshots on a schedule, to a second disk or a bucket you own, plus a restore drill Harbor reminds you to run. An untested backup is a hope.
Your data. Your rules.
Your Harbor.
No account on anyone else’s server. No plan to upgrade. Just the software, the machine you put it on, and a family that knows where everything is.