Self-hosting

linXiv runs on hardware you own — a personal laptop, a lab workstation, or a server your group controls.

You run it

There is no mandatory hosted service. Install once and keep your library on infrastructure you choose, not someone else's SaaS. Papers, notes, and tags live in a SQLite database, and PDFs stay in the location you point linXiv at.

AI is opt-in

Tag suggestions, summaries, and related-paper discovery use your own Gemini or OpenAI key — only when you enable them. With no key configured, linXiv runs entirely locally with no outbound AI calls.

Desktop today, browser later

The Tauri + React desktop app is available now. A browser-based UI for self-hosted deployments is on the roadmap — the same library, accessed another way.

Data ownership

Because everything is a local SQLite file plus a PDF directory, backup and migration are ordinary file operations. Export projects to Obsidian, BibTeX, or shareable .lxproj bundles whenever you need to move data out.