SourceBraid

SourceBraid — Weave the web into Markdown. Save useful sources, find them again, and keep the files in a GitHub repository you control. SourceBraid brings capture, a Markdown reader, local search, and optional on-device chat to your iPhone and iPad. SAVE FROM THE SHARE MENU Share a web page, selected text, a PDF, or another file to SourceBraid. Adjust the title, add tags or a note, and save it to your configured repository. Readable public pages become Markdown with source metadata and relevant images. Pages that cannot be extracted are clearly saved as links. Shared PDFs can be converted by the optional Docling GitHub Actions workflow in your repository. RETURN TO YOUR LATEST SOURCES The Recent view puts seven recent clips within reach. Open a source directly, refresh your archive, or switch to Search and Chat. Wider layouts place your list and reader side by side. READ MARKDOWN COMFORTABLY Read headings, lists, tasks, tables, quotes, code, and local images. Open PDF attachments in the native preview, inspect the raw Markdown, share a clip, or follow its original source. External images load only when you choose to load them for that document. Common Mermaid flowcharts and sequence, state, class, ER, and Gantt diagrams render locally; unsupported or invalid diagrams retain their original source text. FIND TEXT YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED Full-text search runs on your device and shows how much of your archive is indexed. Downloaded clips can be read and searched offline while your repository remains configured. Search covers cached, indexed text; it may not yet include every file in a large archive. Refresh fills gaps, and iOS may remove cached files to reclaim storage. Background updates run when iOS allows them. ASK YOUR SOURCES ON DEVICE On compatible devices, ask about a selected clip or relevant excerpts from the indexed archive. Answers stream into the conversation and include links to the source excerpts supplied to the model. You can stop an answer at any time. Chat requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, an eligible device, enabled Apple Intelligence, a ready downloaded system model, and a supported language. It works with limited excerpts rather than every word of every document. AI answers can be wrong; source links help you check them. Reader and search remain available when chat is unavailable. SourceBraid does not send chat questions to a cloud AI service or use a cloud fallback. YOUR ARCHIVE, YOUR FILES Markdown files and Git history stay in the GitHub repository you choose. The app stores the GitHub token in Keychain and maintains a disposable local reading and search cache. Reading, searching, chat, and read-only App Shortcuts do not change your archive. Saving through the Share Extension writes the captures you choose. SourceBraid includes no ads, tracking, or analytics. Capture and archive refresh contact GitHub and the source websites involved; those services have their own privacy policies. No separate AI account is required for on-device chat. GET STARTED Use a GitHub account and configure a repository with a fine-grained access token. Read access is sufficient for the reader; saving captures also needs repository contents write access. Reader and search support iOS and iPadOS 17 or later.