Smarter Library

Smarter Library is a private, local-first library for the files you choose and the notes you write. It helps you understand, organise, find, and rediscover what matters — without an account, a cloud service, or uploading anything.

What you can do:
• Choose your own sources: enable Downloads or pick folders with the Android file picker. Nothing is scanned until you allow it, and every source can be revoked.
• Keep control of your files: Smarter Library catalogues enabled sources in place and never moves, uploads, or deletes the originals. When another app lends you a file, Save to Library can preserve a lasting copy in a folder you choose.
• Organise your way: shelves, tags, pins, saved views, and notes that live alongside your files. The free version includes one automatic shelf and two saved views.
• Find things fast: search file contents, titles, sources, and folders, plus use filters that work without any AI. Large libraries scan and appear progressively, so you can start browsing sooner.
• Read and play in the app: view documents and images, keep audio playing with notification controls, and continue video in picture-in-picture — or open a file in another app.
• Listen while you read: read supported documents, selected passages and completed Ask answers aloud with an installed offline voice. Follow paragraph highlighting, seek through the reading, and use background and lock-screen controls. Reader speech is free; generating Ask answers requires Pro.
• Spot waste: duplicate detection shows what you are storing twice.
• Rediscover: gentle resurfacing brings back documents and items you have not looked at.
• Back up and restore your library data when you need to.
• Offline mode and clear privacy controls, always available.

Smarter Library Pro (Monthly, Annual or Lifetime):
• Ask questions about your library with a local language model.
• Ask about exactly what you are reading: tap selected PDF text or a supported passage, section, slide, table row, publication block, or transcript line to summarise, explain, or ask a question. Add more passages when needed, then continue the same sourced conversation in Ask.
• Generative summaries and tags from a model running on your device.
• Transcribe audio and video on your device.
• Semantic search that finds items by meaning, not just words.
• Image descriptions and image tags.
• Unlimited automatic shelves and saved views.

Everything above runs on your device. Choose a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Every plan unlocks the same Pro features, and the free library is fully usable without it.

Privacy:
Smarter Library does not upload your files, notes, filenames, folder paths, search queries, or anything generated from them. There is no cloud AI and no account. Optional Google ML Kit features process their input on this device; Google's terms note that ML Kit may contact Google for models, fixes, and compatibility information and sends limited performance metrics. Offline mode blocks new network requests started by Smarter Library. Read aloud uses your installed Android speech engine with an offline voice; that separate engine has its own privacy behaviour.

Support:
Questions or feedback? Email smartertechnologist@gmail.com

Recent changes:
Ask, refresh, and choose your models:

• Ask supported models to browse your Library, search items, and read cited sources.
• Find models for your device with search, sorting, and clearer recommendations.
• Refresh summaries, tags and image descriptions, or refresh older summaries across your Library.
• Undo reports on generated results.
• Keep several transcription packs installed; choose English Tiny for speed or Base for quality.
• Import and export models and packs to a folder you choose.