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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.

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Harbor's Home page: four family members and four items, each with its record count and what expires next.

Ditch the filing cabinet

Harbor was designed from the ground up to tame your document chaos. Full-text search, automatic tagging and summarization, plus powerful sharing features means you stay in control.

  • Connect your inbox

    Connect your inbox and Harbor decides which documents are worth keeping.

  • Upload files and photos

    Upload images and documents with automatic OCR and text indexing.

  • AI Summaries

    Files get auto-tagged and categorized. Use your own LLM or API key.

  • Automatic Backups

    Pick your backup provider and make daily backups. Supports Backblaze and S3 API.

  • For all your things

    Store documents like passports, id cards, bills, deeds, wills, utility bills, expenses and more.

  • Best-in-class security

    Your own fort knox in your basement. Comes with your own virtual security guards.

  • Open Source

    Community driven but hosted by you. Get the updates you want, only when you want, and no one else has access.

  • Secure Sharing

    Up your accountant's game by sending files securely. Set expiration dates, max downloads and more.

HOW IT WORKS

See how Harbor works

Four things it does all day, from the moment paperwork arrives to the moment someone else needs a copy.

Inbox
  • Homeowners Policy Renewal 2027Forwarded by email · just now
    Insurance1428 Maple Ave
    TAGGING
  • Lake County Property Tax BillForwarded by email · 2 h ago
    TaxesLake cabin
  • Learner’s Permit, Lucas WeberPhoto from phone · 3 h ago
    IdentityLucas
Turn-key document management

Complete, secure document management

Harbor means turn-key document management with a robust feature set and best-in-class security. Perfect for your household.

Documents waiting in Harbor's Inbox, each with a summary and a suggested filing.

  • Access security

    With MFA out of the box, and revocable device tokens, Harbor provides best-in-class security to keep you in and everyone else out. A full audit trail shows who has accessed from where.

  • Full device encryption

    Harbor encrypts your storage volume to protect you in case your device gets stolen. Drives are encrypted and require unlock after each reboot so no one can access your data.

  • S3 compatible backup

    Choose your favorite backup provider such as Backblaze, Wasabi, or Amazon S3 to store data encrypted at rest. This also ensures easy recovery should your device ever fail.

Secure sharing

Secure sharing with your tax advisors

Too many tax professionals don't use proper security when handling your documents. Harbor puts you in charge by letting you define how long files are shared for, with whom, and how many times they can be downloaded.

Harbor's Home page: family members and items, each with a record count and what expires next.

  • No firewalls to configure

    Harbor configures your Tailscale access so you don't have to open or forward ports to share data. Isolated resources handle sharing securely without you having to lift a finger.

  • Choose how you share

    Optionally share using an external bucket. Files are encrypted and require a signing key which you provide. Harbor manages the entire lifecycle without anyone accessing your Harbor instance.

  • Audit your files

    See who viewed, downloaded, and how many times. Delivery receipts give you peace of mind that files were delivered. Remove access to shared links any time.

FAQ

Questions? We’ve got answers.

What does Harbor cost?
Harbor is free and open source. You host it on your own hardware. We are working on ways to make it easy to deploy Harbor to a cloud platform of your choice. We may also in the future introduce a hosted version, which we may charge for.
How does it work?
You install Harbor on your hardware. It runs on a Raspberry Pi or small form factor computers. Heck, you can even repurpose that old Mac mini and put it to good use. Install is easy — even if you're not technical. Within minutes, you have your own instance running.
How does backup work?
Harbor lets you configure different backup providers. We currently support Backblaze B2, which has a generous free tier to get started. Future versions will add support for S3 compatible storage such as Wasabi, Amazon S3, or any number of vendors following the open object storage standard.
Is my data secure?
The overall premise of Harbor is that you should be able to manage your data, not someone else. If you use a cloud provider, do you really know your data is secure? Employees often have access to hosted systems without your knowledge. Data in those systems often flows through third party providers with different security postures. Data breaches happen in the cloud, which is why Harbor can be hosted inside your four walls. With drive encryption, MFA access, and device tokens, Harbor is more secure out of the box than the vast majority of services you can subscribe to.
Can you recommend inexpensive hardware to run Harbor on?
Yes, sure. Harbor is tested on a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu, and on small form factor servers like the Protectli Vault.

Your data. Your rules. Your Harbor.

No account on anyone else’s server, and no plan to upgrade. The software, the machine you put it on, and a household that knows where everything is.

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