Private search for your own files

Where was that?

Type what you remember. Wherava finds the exact moment, page or photo in your own files, and tells you when it isn't there.

Try a memory

Live replay of real results from the Wherava engine, on a 50-file demo archive.

01 · How it works

Your memory is fuzzy. Your files aren't.

A soft, half-remembered impression of an old man checking a boy's eye in a boxing gym The exact frame: the cutman holds two fingers to the boy's eye

What you remember“the old cutman… checks the boy's eye with two fingers?”

What Wherava findscutman.mp4 · 0:12 In Corner Men · Archive drive · 2021

02 · What makes it different

Precise. Honest.
Instant.

The moment, not the file.

Wherava lands on the second inside the footage, the page inside the PDF, the one photo among thousands.

  1. DriveArchive drive
  2. ProjectCorner Men (2021)
  3. Folderfootage
  4. Filecutman.mp4
  5. Moment0:12

It tells you where.

Every answer carries its exact place.

It tells you when it isn't there.

Most search guesses anyway. In our tests Wherava reported 90 of 90 absent things as absent.

    Answers in milliseconds.

    The four demo searches, as timed by the engine. Under 0.1 s across 180,000 moments, pages and photos on one gaming PC.

    03 · Privacy

    Your files never
    leave your computer.

    Wherava reads and indexes on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, synced or seen by us. It isn't screenshots of everything you do: just search over the folders you choose.

    04 · Coverage

    Everything you keep.
    Wherever you keep it.

    Videos

    What's in the shot, and what's said beta

    Photos

    By what's in them, not what they're called

    Documents

    PDF, Word, text and notes, including scanned pages

    • This PC34 files
    • Studio NAS10 files
    • Archive driveunplugged · still searchable

    Drives and NAS

    This PC, external drives and network folders

    05 · Beta

    Be one of
    the first 20.

    For people with messy archives: editors, photographers, researchers, students, anyone with a drive full of “I know it's in here somewhere”. Free during the beta. Windows now, Mac soon.

    We'll only email you about the beta. No newsletter, no sharing. Privacy