Why we exist
Developers got AI leverage. Everyone else got file uploads to sketchy websites.
FileHop is one desktop app for working with your files, wherever they came from. It runs on your device, even offline.
The problem we kept hitting
AI tools transformed how developers work. Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot — leverage at every keystroke. Whole categories of grunt work disappeared overnight.
But everyone else — people who spend their day with PDFs, videos, decks, and spreadsheets — got almost none of that. They still upload files to sketchy websites, pay for fifteen overlapping SaaS subscriptions, and install bloated apps that take three gigabytes just to trim a clip.
The gap isn't access to AI. It's access to well-designed file tools that work on your own machine. That's the problem we kept stumbling on.
Too many apps for simple jobs
One app to trim a clip, another for a PDF, a subscription for a spreadsheet, and an upload site for everything else.
Most users pay in disk space, money, or privacy for capabilities they rarely need.
How we're solving it
One native desktop app that handles PDFs, videos, images, documents, presentations, markdown, and data files — all from the same window.
Everything runs locally — your files stay on your machine.
We want FileHop to be the first app you reach for when you need to see what’s in a file, make a change, or get it ready to share.
About 175 MB.
One free download of about 175 MB.
The team
We're three people, bootstrapped, based in Bengaluru.
Founder Vysakh Sreenivasan was CTO at DataBrain Labs (Accel-backed) before this. The rest of the team is product and engineering, and the whole team spends a lot of time listening to what users actually want from a file workspace.
Built for professionals globally.