Harbor
FEATURES

Your household paperwork, organized

Bring documents together from uploads and email. Search their contents, track important dates, and share selected records—all from a vault you host yourself.

AND EVERYTHING ELSE THE HOUSEHOLD KEEPS

01CAPTURE

File upload and email monitoring

Connect a mailbox, forward email, or upload files. Harbor extracts readable text and brings new documents into your Inbox.

  • Connect your inbox

    Connect a supported mailbox over IMAP. Approve senders for automatic filing and review mail from other senders.

  • One address for the household

    Set up a dedicated mailbox for forwarded documents. Harbor collects them so you can review and file them in one place.

  • Upload files and scans

    Extract text from PDFs, scans, and photos, or upload a ZIP of documents. Word and Excel files can be stored, but their contents are not searchable.

  • OCR text recognition

    Harbor extracts text from scans and photos using optical character recognition. Search the extracted text without opening each file.

02ANALYZE

File analysis and summarization

Connect a language model to get summaries and suggested categories, tags, people, and dates. Review the suggestions and correct them before accepting.

  • Document summaries

    See a short summary of a document and its key details. Check amounts and dates against the original before acting on them.

  • Tags from the document itself

    Use tags for details such as the insurer, year, or address. Harbor suggests existing tags; you can add or change them.

  • Categories you decide

    Start with Identity, Real Estate, Money, Taxes and Health. Rename them, nest them, add the ones your household actually uses.

  • People and things

    Link records to household members, properties, vehicles, and accounts. Open an item to see the documents associated with it.

03FIND

Search inside your documents

Find a document by its title, tags, notes, or extracted text—even when you cannot remember the filename.

  • Full-text search

    Search text extracted from documents, including scans. Results show the matching text to help you find the right record.

  • Language-aware search

    Configure OCR for the languages in your documents. Search supports English and German word forms, and a connected model can provide translated summaries.

  • Narrow it to one person or one thing

    Filter by person, property, category, tag, or date. Open a vehicle to see its linked receipts, policies, and other records.

  • The original, plus what it means

    View the original document alongside its summary, tags, notes, versions, and change history.

ONE DOCUMENT, EVERYTHING ABOUT IT

View a document alongside its summary, tags, expiration date, and household notes. Keep the original and the details you need together.

A document in Harbor: the scanned original beside its summary, tags, notes and expiry date.
04TRACK DEADLINES

Keep track of important dates

Review upcoming expirations and tasks in Harbor. Reminders stay in the app; there is no email digest or calendar feed.

  • Invoices and bills that are due

    Accept a suggested payment task with its due date and amount, or add one yourself. Each linked task leads back to its document.

  • Passports, licences and ID cards

    Review expiration dates suggested from your documents. Home shows upcoming expirations for the people and things in your vault.

  • Keep payment details together

    Keep a payment amount and its currency with the task, so the details stay alongside the deadline.

  • One list, in the order it is due

    See overdue tasks, what is due today, and what comes next. Completed tasks remain in the record so you can check them later.

05SHARE

Secure sharing on your terms

Invite household members to your vault or share selected documents with someone outside it, such as your accountant.

  • The whole household

    Give household members their own sign-in. Everyone you invite can see every filed document; use a shared link to send only selected records.

  • Links that expire on their own

    Send selected documents through a shared link. Set an expiration date and download limit, or revoke access early.

  • Break-glass access

    Keep a printed recovery sheet somewhere safe, separate from the server. It holds the keys and backup details needed to recover the vault.

  • A record of who did what

    Review document changes and sharing activity to see how records have been updated and accessed.

06OPEN SOURCE

An open-source vault you control

Run Harbor on hardware or hosting you control. Choose your backup destination and AI provider, and keep the recovery keys for your encrypted records.

  • Open source, AGPL-3.0

    Read the source, follow development, and contribute changes. Harbor is available under the AGPL-3.0 license.

  • Fully self-hostable

    Run Harbor on a Linux machine with Docker and an encrypted data volume. The setup guide explains the hardware and storage requirements.

  • Backups you have actually restored

    Configure encrypted nightly backups to Backblaze B2, an SFTP server, or a second disk. Harbor runs a monthly restore test and shows the result in Settings.

  • Choose your AI provider

    Use a local model or connect a hosted provider, which receives document text for suggestions. Harbor also works without AI summaries.

Your data. Your rules. Your Harbor.

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