Linkly AI
Local document search engine that gives AI agents private, agent-ready context.
At a glance
Free + paid · Source review 2026-11-04- Price & billing
Free $0 forever verified on the pricing page: all local features, free to use, working offline, with parsing for 25 formats and full-text search. Paid-tier amounts are page observations in $ without a named currency, so no paid-tier charge fact is recorded: the pricing page also lists a $29 and a $66 figure in the text read.
- Free allowance
Free $0 forever verified on the pricing page: all local features, free to use, working offline, with parsing for 25 formats and full-text search.
- Best suited to
Agent users who want files, web clips, and notes organized locally and ready for any AI to find and use.; Developers and researchers who want a CLI, browser extension, desktop app, and agent skills around one private knowledge layer.; Teams that want context to stay theirs as models and agents change, without uploading files to a cloud knowledge base.
Fit is editorial guidance, not a measured result.- Platforms
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What to know before choosing
Good fit
Agent users who want files, web clips, and notes organized locally and ready for any AI to find and use.; Developers and researchers who want a CLI, browser extension, desktop app, and agent skills around one private knowledge layer.; Teams that want context to stay theirs as models and agents change, without uploading files to a cloud knowledge base.
Limits and trade-offs
Users who want a cloud-hosted, shared knowledge base: Linkly is local-first, works offline, and does not upload files anywhere.; Users whose files sit entirely in formats outside the 25 Linkly parses for its local full-text search.; Users who want Linkly itself to be the chat agent: Linkly is the context layer that agents plug into, used with agents such as Codex, Claude, Cursor, and Copilot.
Plans and free allowances
Free $0 forever verified on the pricing page: all local features, free to use, working offline, with parsing for 25 formats and full-text search. Paid-tier amounts are page observations in $ without a named currency, so no paid-tier charge fact is recorded: the pricing page also lists a $29 and a $66 figure in the text read.
Evidence
Official homepage ↗ (reviewed 2026-11-04), Official pricing page ↗ (reviewed 2026-11-04)
Official published documentation reviewed; not a product test
Dates: Last reviewed 2026-11-04. Last reviewed is the latest source or editorial review date; it is not a content-change date.
A closer look at Linkly AI
Linkly AI is a local document search engine built for AI agents: a desktop app that indexes and searches everything on a computer, a browser extension that saves web pages as clean Markdown, a CLI for terminal search, and agent skills for Claude Code and more, with a private local knowledge layer that agents can search, compare, read, and dig through.
Editorial guidance based on published documentation. The workflow below is a suggested starting point, not a measured product result.
When to choose Linkly AI
- Agent users who want files, web clips, and notes organized locally and ready for any AI to find and use.
- Developers and researchers who want a CLI, browser extension, desktop app, and agent skills around one private knowledge layer.
- Teams that want context to stay theirs as models and agents change, without uploading files to a cloud knowledge base.
When to choose something else
- Users who want a cloud-hosted, shared knowledge base: Linkly is local-first, works offline, and does not upload files anywhere.
- Users whose files sit entirely in formats outside the 25 Linkly parses for its local full-text search.
- Users who want Linkly itself to be the chat agent: Linkly is the context layer that agents plug into, used with agents such as Codex, Claude, Cursor, and Copilot.
A practical starting workflow
- Download Linkly for free and let it parse local files into a live, private knowledge layer.
- Save web pages as clean Markdown with the browser extension, or search from the terminal with the CLI.
- Plug the layer into an agent through skills, and let the agent search, compare, read, and dig through the material at speed.
Check before committing
- The $29 and $66 pricing-page figures are not tied to named plans in the text read, so they are described only as page observations.
- Indexing time varies by hardware: the FAQ gives a Core i5 with 16 GB on Windows CPU-only at about 13 hours as an example, not a promise for every machine.
Common questions
Is Linkly AI free?
Yes for local use: all local features are free to use and work offline at $0 forever, with parsing for 25 formats and full-text search.
Does Linkly AI upload my files anywhere?
No. The FAQ addresses uploads directly, and the homepage states context stays local and private, with models and agents changing while context stays the user’s.
Which file formats can it read?
25 formats for local parsing and full-text search, per the pricing page free-tier description.
How long will indexing take?
It depends on hardware: the FAQ example is about 13 hours on a Core i5 with 16 GB on Windows CPU-only.
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Sources and checks
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