SurfSense
by MODSetter
SurfSense is an open-source AI agent that researches, transforms, and edits documents on your machine, without uploading them.
Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.
- Stars
- 16.6k
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 817 days
What you can do with it
- Redline a contract with tracked changes and comments
- Add sources from the web and turn them into a web page
- Transform and edit documents in various formats
Could replace
- Notion
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Save time and money by editing documents offline without the need for cloud services
- Ensure document security by keeping them on your local machine
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Download the appropriate version for your operating system from the provided links.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
