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Spacedrive is an open-source, local-first data engine written in Rust. It indexes Gmail, Slack, Apple Notes, Obsidian, GitHub and more into one searchable index — no cloud, no surrender of your data.
Spacedrive is an open-source, local-first data engine written in Rust that indexes any data source and makes everything searchable from one place. Founded by Jamie Pine and originally launched as a cross-platform file explorer in 2022, it pivoted in March 2026 to v3 — a single-search-bar over your emails, notes, bookmarks, GitHub issues, and Slack messages. We rate it 70/100 — a fascinating, principled rebuild that is genuinely the only local data tool with a built-in prompt-injection guard, but still very early and carrying baggage from two unfinished versions.
Spacedrive was open-sourced four years ago by Jamie Pine, who raised a $2M seed round and built a 12-person team to ship a cross-platform file manager with peer-to-peer sync. v1's alpha was downloaded by half a million people and the repo became the 30th most-starred Rust project on GitHub, with 37,000 stars and 600,000 cumulative downloads. But v1 collapsed under infrastructure debt and v2 — a solo clean-room rewrite with 183k lines of Rust — never reached a stable release either.
v3, announced on , is the team's third attempt and a deliberate downscoping. The thesis: the most valuable part of Spacedrive was never the file browser — it was the index. v3 ships as a local-first data engine. Each data source becomes a self-contained repository with its own SQLite database and vector index. Files stay where they are; Spacedrive just reads, screens, and indexes them.
~/.spacedrive/.spacedrive-core Rust crate. The agent product, Spacebot, links the same crate directly — no IPC overhead.
Sentiment is split. The community on Hacker News and r/rust has consistently praised Spacedrive's design polish, the ambition of the Rust-native architecture, and Jamie Pine's transparent communication. Earlier comments described the search as "lightning fast" and the UI as one of the cleanest in the file-manager space.
The recurring complaint is shipping. v1 promised P2P multi-device sync and never delivered. v2 built working sync but couldn't ship a stable release. Hacker News commenters on past releases flagged real bugs — directories with 15,000+ files reportedly became effectively non-navigable in v1's alpha. The v3 pivot has been received with cautious optimism, but several long-time watchers on the v3 testing GitHub discussion are openly skeptical that a third architectural reset will ship faster than the first two.
Spacedrive is free and open source under AGPL-3.0. There are no paid tiers, no subscriptions, and no enterprise plans. The team has stated the core will be "free, open source, and local-first forever." The business model is the sister product, Spacebot — an AI agent for teams and communities that uses Spacedrive as its safe data layer.
| Plan | Price | What's Included |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source | $0 | Full desktop app, CLI, all 11 adapters, processing pipeline, search index — everything |
Best for: Local-first enthusiasts, privacy-conscious knowledge workers, and developers building personal AI agents who want a screened, classified data layer instead of pumping raw email and Slack into LLM context. Anyone who has fought with Recall-style cloud indexers and wants the search without the surveillance.
Not ideal for: Users who need a polished traditional file manager today — v3 is not that product, and the file browser is now a single VDFS adapter rather than the headline feature. Teams needing multi-device sync should also wait, since cross-device repository sync is on the roadmap but not shipped.
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For a traditional cross-platform file manager, look at commercial tools like Path Finder or open-source projects like Yazi. For local search across personal data, Recoll and DEVONthink (macOS) cover similar ground but without injection screening or trust tiers. For agent-ready local indexing, the closest peer is LlamaIndex with a local vector store — but that's a developer SDK, not a desktop product. Spacedrive's screening pipeline is genuinely unique in this space.
Spacedrive v3 is the most architecturally interesting local data tool we've seen this year, and the only one taking AI safety seriously at the ingest layer. The downscoping from "cross-platform file manager for five OSes" to "local search index with a processing pipeline" is the right call. But two prior versions never shipped a stable build, and v3 is brand new — the public migration to the open repo only happened on March 20, 2026. We rate it 70/100: install it now if you're a Rust enthusiast or a local-first believer, but expect rough edges and wait six months before betting your knowledge workflow on it.
v2 branch.
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