Personal document archive

The drawer you keep meaning to sort.

There’s a stack of paper you’ve meant to deal with for years. Photograph it, and ClearChive turns it into an archive you can actually search — from your phone or any browser.

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My Archive11 documents
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Utility Bills3
Insurance3
Personal2
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Home Buildings Insurance 2024
Insurance
14 Mar 2024
Council Tax Bill Q1 2024
Utility Bills
02 Mar 2024
Birth Certificate — James
Personal
28 Jan 2024
P60 Tax Return 2022–23
Tax
12 Jan 2024
GP Referral Letter
Medical
05 Jan 2024
Gas Bill December 2023
Utility Bills
18 Dec 2023
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You’re not here because you
love paperwork.

Something brought you here. For most people, it’s one of these.

Forty years of paper, all at once.

You've just helped a parent downsize. Now four decades of documents are yours — old bills, letters, certificates — and you don't know what matters or where anything is.

The papers that can't be reordered.

You watched the coverage of the floods and thought: if that happened here, ours would be gone. The birth certificates. The insurance policies. The mortgage papers.

The drawer you keep closing.

There's a drawer you've been meaning to sort for two years. You know exactly which one. Every time you open it, you close it again.

ClearChive is where those documents go — safe, searchable, and there when it matters.

How it works

From a box of papers to a
searchable archive.

Four steps. The first one takes about as long as taking a photo.

01

Photograph it

Point your phone at any document — a letter, an old bill, a certificate. ClearChive captures a clean, straightened copy.

02

Filed for you

It works out what each document is, gives it a sensible name, and files it in the right place — an insurance policy, a tax return, a school report.

03

Find anything

Looking for last year's tax return? Type a word — "insurance", "2019", "school" — and it's there, from your phone or any browser.

04

Yours to keep

Download your whole archive at any time, organised into folders by year and type. Nothing is ever locked in.

Privacy & trust

For these documents, privacy
isn’t a feature. It’s the point.

The papers you keep here are the ones that matter most. They’re treated that way.

Encrypted storage

Every document is encrypted before it's stored. No third-party access to your files, no advertising, ever.

See our privacy policy for details on how documents are processed.

Stored in Europe

Your documents live on servers in Germany and Finland, run by Hetzner. They never leave Europe, and they're never sold or mined.

Fully GDPR compliant

You can export everything or delete everything, whenever you decide. Your archive belongs to you, in full, with nothing held back.

Encrypted storage · Hosted in Europe (Hetzner, DE & FI) · GDPR compliant

Start with one document.

Photograph the first thing in that drawer and watch it land somewhere sensible. The rest can follow whenever you’re ready.

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