Local-first and offline
Your library lives on your machine and works without a connection. Optional hosting and sync add convenience, never dependence.
Your files. Private.
A free, open-source file platform that keeps your files in an archival standard you own, with descriptions and provenance attached: on your own computer, on your own server, or in an encrypted cloud you can leave at any time.
In development. Open source under the MIT licence.
Why
Leave any service and keep the whole story
Cloud drives hand back the bytes when you leave, not the versions, descriptions and sharing history. Archives keep that context, but they are built for institutions. FileSquid brings archival discipline to everyday files, without asking you to become an archivist or a system administrator.
Full ownership
Originals, edits, dates, descriptions, organisation and relationships stay together, so your files keep their meaning.
Portable by design
Move between providers, recover from mistakes, or stop using FileSquid altogether, without losing originals or the work you added.
Traceable provenance
Every import starts a C2PA Content Credentials record, with a PROV-O audit trail of who did what, so files can show where they came from and whether AI was involved.
Your AI, your choice
Connect a local model or your own provider account. You pick the model per task and pay the provider directly; backup never sees inference traffic.
Fast at any size
Browsing, previews and search stay responsive in large libraries while imports, indexing and provenance scans run in the background.
How it works
A familiar drive on top, an archive underneath
Folders, previews, a details sidebar, version history and sharing, like the cloud drives you know. Underneath, every file is stored the way archives store them, so the collection stays readable with ordinary file tools and can be rebuilt from disk if the app's indexes are ever lost.
OCFL storageVersioned files and inventories in the Oxford Common File Layout, the archives' standard for keeping files on disk.
Dublin Core metadataDescriptions in an ISO standard vocabulary, alongside the native EXIF and file facts.
C2PA + PROV-OSigned Content Credentials and a machine-readable history of every change.
Any hostDesktop app on Windows, macOS and Linux, a server you run, or an encrypted browser host.
One platform, several faces
Distributions share one open archive
Each distribution is a user interface over the same FileSquid API and modules. A library made in one opens in the others.
FileSquid
The platform and its Drive-style interface, with OCFL, metadata and C2PA.
Encrypted backup & sync
Hosted at *.filesquid.tech. The service stores ciphertext only and never holds your keys.
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Private, preserved, traceable, portable.
Leave a hosting provider, work offline, recover from mistakes, or leave FileSquid entirely, at any time, without losing your original files, enhancements or metadata. That is the rule the product is built around.