Your Own Search Engine
hister.org Source★ 6,277AGPL-3.0 Chrome Web Store DiscordAI Models & Agents / AI Search & Answer Engines
- Monthly visits
- None yet
- No traffic data yet
- Public revenue
- Undisclosed
- No public revenue evidence yet
- Entry price
- Free
- No monthly subscription pricing
- Launched
- 9mo ago
- 2026-02-05 · Est.
Traffic
No traffic data yet.
Marketing moves
Launches, search & content, referrals, promotionsLaunched on Show HN (9 pts · 1 comments)Launch
Hister – fast, content-based search for visited websites — I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines. Hister is basica…
Feb 5 · 9mo agoLaunch page
Third-party reviews & case dossiers
Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics- Replaces / alternatives to:
- Algolia
Blazing fast, content-based search for visited websites
- Post excerpt:
- I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines. Hister is basically a full text indexer for websites which saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore previously visited content with ease o
Open Source & Agent Ecosystem
- GitHub Stars
- ★ 6,277
- Forks
- 286
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Primary language
- Go
- Ecosystem & integrations:
- Kiwix
Store data
Web history on steroids
- Rating
- ★ 5.005 ratings
- New ratings last mo
- —
- Price & IAP
- FreeIAP data not synced
- Current version
- —Store metadata
Companion addon for Hister to index visited sites automatically.
Store assets, rating histograms, install tiers, and screenshots are synced from Apple App Store, Google Play, and Chrome Web Store.
Traffic sources
Traffic breakdown
No traffic channel or country breakdown data for this website yet.
Search
Domain authority —Domain registered Unknown
No search keyword data for this website yet.
Traffic data: Vaneform
Pricing
Website does not list public plan prices.
Trial: None · Observed 2026-11-09 · Source page
Pages & changes
Key pages
Weekly snapshots- Homehister.org/
- Featureshister.org/datasets Snapshot 2026-11-09
Changes
No pricing, plan, or positioning changes detected since tracking started.
Questions & evidence
- What is Hister and what platforms does it support?
- Hister is catalogued under AI Search & Answer Engines: Your Own Search Engine. Supported platforms: Browser Extension, MCP Server, CLI / SDK, API.
- Is Hister open source?
- Hister has a public repository (https://github.com/asciimoo/hister) under the AGPL-3.0 license, recording 6,277 GitHub stars, and supporting self-hosted deployment.Source
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