Private document search

Private document search on your iPhone

Étoiles finds the passage you need across your files, photos, scans, calendar, reminders and contacts, and answers your question with a citation. The index and the answer are made on your iPhone or iPad.

What stays on your device

• The files and photos you import, and the calendar, reminders and contacts you choose to add.
• The text passages and the search index built from them.
• Your questions, and the answers, which Apple Intelligence writes on the device.

There is no Étoiles server in this path and no account to create. We do not receive your documents, your questions or your answers. The app has no analytics, advertising or tracking software. Details are in the privacy policy.

What you can search

• Files: PDFs and other documents you import from the Files app or share from another app.
• Photos and screenshots: the text in them, and when and where they were taken.
• Scans: paper documents you scan with the camera.
• Calendar and Reminders: events and to-dos you choose to include.
• Contacts: names, organizations and details, so you can ask who someone is.

Search works on meaning as well as words, so "when does the boiler service expire" finds a passage that says "annual maintenance contract renews on 1 March".

Answers you can check

Each answer has numbered citations. Tap one to read the passage it came from, in its document. If your library does not contain the answer, Étoiles is built to say so instead of guessing. Answers are written by AI and can be wrong, which is exactly why the source is always one tap away.

What you need

• An iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, running iOS or iPadOS 27 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on.
• Nothing else. The app is free, with no in-app purchases and no subscription.

Indexing a large library takes a while the first time, and works best on power and Wi-Fi.

When one device is not enough

If you want the same documents on the web, or a shared library for a team, that is Étoiles Cloud. It is a separate, paid service: your documents are uploaded to a workspace of your own, encrypted at rest. Your on-device library is never uploaded to it.