Lumen vs Bredbox

Lumen is a browser with a memory. Most browsers forget the second you close a tab. Lumen does not. As you read, it quietly builds a personal knowledge base from the pages you actually engage with, and then lets you ask questions about any of it in plain English, answered by an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Nothing you read, nothing you ask, and nothing Lumen learns about you ever leaves your phone. WHAT IT DOES Lumen reads along with you. It distinguishes between pages you genuinely read and pages you opened and swiped away, and it extracts the meaningful content from the ones that stuck. That content gets summarized, embedded, and organized into a searchable knowledge base, all on-device. Later, when you want to find something, you do not have to dig through history or remember which tab it was in. You just ask: "What did I read about sourdough starters last week?" "Summarize that article about the new M-series chips." "What were the main arguments in that piece I read on Tuesday?" Every answer cites the pages it came from, so you can jump straight back to the source. AUTO-ORGANIZED Your reading sorts itself into a clean hierarchy: Topics, Websites, and Pages. Each level carries its own AI-generated summary, so you can scan what you have been learning at a glance. No tagging, no folders to maintain. Lumen handles it in the background. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Lumen has no server. There is quite literally nothing to send. On-device LLM: a quantized Llama 3.2 model runs locally through Apple's MLX framework. Local SQLite storage: your reading history, summaries, and embeddings never leave the device. Built-in privacy: tracker blocking, third-party cookie blocking, and fingerprint resistance. Secure: HTTPS-only by default, with mixed-content blocking. No strings attached: no accounts, no sync, no telemetry, no ads. The AI weights download once on first launch (~700 MB). After that, everything works fully offline: browsing, reading, asking, answering. BUILT FOR iOS Lumen is written from scratch in Swift and SwiftUI, designed specifically for iPhone and iPad. It uses Apple's own frameworks wherever it can: NLEmbedding for semantic search, WKWebView for browsing, SQLite with FTS5 for full-text queries, and MLX Swift for on-device inference. Zero third-party trackers. Zero external services. WHO IT'S FOR While most browsers treat the web as a feed to scroll past, Lumen treats it as a library worth keeping. If you read a lot online and constantly think "I know I saw something about this recently but I cannot find it again," Lumen is for you. Researchers, students, writers, developers, and lifelong learners. You do not need to change how you browse. Browse normally, and Lumen takes care of the rest. REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. iPhone with Apple Silicon recommended for the fastest on-device AI performance.

Bredbox is a personal reading library for the articles, recipes, tutorials, and other content you want to keep. Save something when you find it, then come back when you have the time and attention to enjoy it. Bredbox gives you a calm place to read, organize, and rediscover the things that matter to you. Your library, wherever you are Keep your saved content close at hand on your iPhone. Browse your library, pick up something you were reading, or find an article you saved months ago. Read without the noise Open saved articles in a clean, focused reader designed to put the content first. Choose dark mode when you prefer a darker interface. Organize it your way Use tags and favorites to organize your library in whatever way makes sense to you. Your Reading list also makes it easy to return to articles you’ve already started. Find what matters again Search your library when you know what you’re looking for, or browse by tag when you just want to see what you’ve collected around a topic. Build a library you can trust Bredbox is designed around a simple idea: the things you care enough to save should remain useful to you later. Your library belongs to you. Bredbox supports exporting your saved content so you can take it with you whenever you choose. Whether you’re collecting technical articles, essays, research, recipes, or simply things you want to read someday, Bredbox gives them a lasting home. Save it now. Give it your attention later.