Read the web.Keep the good parts.Ask anything later.

A private iOS browser with a knowledge panel built in. A local model answers from pages you’ve read, cites its sources, and never sends your reading to a server.

How Lumen works

It's a browser first.

Open any page and read it the way you would anywhere else. In the background, Lumen saves the text, indexes it and sorts it by topic, all on your phone.

Lumen's home screen

Your reading sorts itself.

Pages collect into coloured folders by topic, such as climate, design, film and science. Lumen names and fills the folders for you, and so the library grows as you read.

Library of coloured topic folders

You decide what it keeps.

The site menu counts the trackers Lumen blocked on each page. When you would rather it keep nothing, one tap turns off Collect Knowledge.

Site menu with the Collect Knowledge toggle and tracker counter

Answers from what you’ve read.

Drag across the screen to see a question answered. The model on your phone answers from the pages in your library, and each answer links back to the pages it came from.

Ask panel answering questions with sources
Empty Ask panel with sparkle glyph

Principles

  • Open source

    Every line of Lumen is public under the AGPL-3.0 license, and so anyone can check what the app does with a page.

  • On your phone

    Pages, folders and answers stay on the device. The model runs there too, and nothing you read or ask is sent to a server.

  • Blocks trackers

    Lumen blocks the trackers on the Disconnect list by default, and third-party cookies with them. Pages load over HTTPS, and so do the images and scripts inside them.