A file store that feels like Dropbox did when everyone loved it - small, fast, delightful - with a markdown-native heart and an AI-agent-friendly interface.
Fern is files and folders. Not calendars, not contacts, not chat. It stores your stuff, versions it so you can't lose it, shares it without ceremony, and gets out of the way.
Fernfiles is in early testing. Sign up and you join the waitlist — we'll email you as we let people in.
Every overwrite and delete is recoverable. Full history, a trash can, and a log of what happened to each file.
Notes get an editor that saves as you type and links notes to each other. Photos, PDFs, and the rest live in the same folders and stand on their own.
Search understands what your notes mean, not just which words they contain — ask a question and get the note back even when you never used those words in it. Scanned PDFs and photos of text are read on upload, so what's inside them is findable too.
Self-hostable, on plain local storage by default. Cloud is opt-in, not assumed.
Browser, CLI, and MCP over the same files. Your AI agents read your notes for context, cross-reference them, and file back what you learn.
An email address or a phone number is all it takes. No org to join, no admin to ask, no accounts and roles to manage.
Apps you authorize keep their data in your Fernfiles, not their own silo. It's still yours the day they shut down.
Fernfiles is in early testing, so accounts are let in a few at a time. Sign up with your email or phone and we'll notify you when yours is approved.
Join the waitlistFernfiles is open source and self-hostable. See the code on GitHub.