Observed arrival · 2026-11-01

CherryQuery: search inside the files you forgot

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Editorial interest 77/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A Windows desktop app that searches the contents of documents, email, archives, scanned PDFs, and images—not just their filenames.

Landing page captured for the 2026-11-01 issue.

For: Windows users searching across personal files
Worth noticing: The site says OCR runs locally; it reads up to 50 pages per scanned PDF or TIFF.

Field notes

The described index covers office documents, OpenDocument files, email and attachments, compressed archives, notes, data files, and source code. Searches can use quoted phrases and Boolean operators, while a configurable hotkey opens the app from anywhere. For OCR, the site says additional languages are downloaded once when selected and that scans are processed on the PC, with a 50-page limit per scanned PDF or TIFF.

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