A local vault for your Threads posts. No cloud. No tracking. No account needed.
ThreadsVault Desktop is the desktop version of ThreadsVault for Android. The idea is simple: paste a Threads post URL, it gets extracted and saved locally — and it's yours. Close the app and reopen it whenever you want: the text and images of your saved posts will still be there.
You can organize posts into categories, the app indexes post hashtags, and you can attach personal notes when saving — making your vault easy to search without depending solely on Threads' built-in Saved feature 🗄🧵
 Empty vault Main screen on first launch |
 Categories Create and organize with color and icon |
 Privacy & settings Backup, privacy, keyboard shortcuts |
 Vault with posts (new light mode since v2.1.0) Home screen with light mode and saved posts |
 Categories Category view in light mode |
 Privacy and Settings Light mode |
- Save posts by URL — paste a Threads link and hit save. Title, author, text and images are extracted automatically.
- Local storage — SQLite on desktop (via Tauri), IndexedDB in browser. Nothing leaves your device.
- Categories — organize your posts into custom categories. Uncategorized posts go to a default inbox.
- Backup & restore — export your entire vault as JSON and import it whenever you want. On import, the app shows progress and confirms how many posts and categories were restored.
- Media cache & built-in player — images are cached locally as data URLs; videos are downloaded and stored offline, playable directly inside the app with an option to download them.
- Personal notes — add, edit or delete notes on any saved post directly from its detail screen.
- Keyboard shortcuts — navigate and search without a mouse:
Escgo back,Ctrl+Nadd,/orCtrl+Fsearch,←→navigate between posts. - ES/EN internationalization — the UI language is resolved automatically at startup from your OS locale. No configuration needed. Spanish and English fully supported across all screens.
- No telemetry — no analytics, no error reporting, no external requests beyond post extraction. Everything runs 100% locally: not even the developer has access to your data.
Download the installer from Releases and run it:
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
.exe |
Standard installer — recommended |
.msi |
MSI package for managed/enterprise environments |
Installs to %LocalAppData%\threadsvault-desktop and creates a Start Menu shortcut.
Multiple formats available in Releases:
| Format | How to use |
|---|---|
.AppImage |
chmod +x ThreadsVault_*.AppImage && ./ThreadsVault_*.AppImage |
.deb |
sudo dpkg -i threadsvault-desktop_*.deb |
.rpm |
sudo rpm -i threadsvault-desktop_*.rpm |
.flatpak |
flatpak install ThreadsVault-desktop-*.flatpak |
Note: If the AppImage doesn't launch on Ubuntu 22.04+, run
sudo apt install libfuse2.
- Copy the URL of a Threads post (e.g.
https://www.threads.net/@user/post/abc123) - Open the app → click the +Add button in the top right corner.
- Paste the URL and click Save, optionally adding notes.
- The app extracts the post content using a two-step system: Jina Reader is the primary method, with a direct fallback to Threads' embedded React state when Jina is unavailable or rate-limited.
- If the URL is part of a thread, the app automatically detects and extracts all posts in the sequence — no need to save them one by one (v2.2.0 update feature)
- The post (or thread) is saved locally. Done.
- All data is stored in a local SQLite database (
%AppData%\threadsvault-desktopon Windows,~/.local/share/threadsvault-desktopon Linux) - External requests are limited to
r.jina.ai(primary source) andthreads.net(alternative when Jina is unavailable). - No usage data, no error reporting, no telemetry of any kind
- Threads only — designed specifically for Threads posts; other URLs may not extract correctly
- Extraction reliability — occasionally a post may not extract perfectly on the first attempt. If text formatting or images look off, use the Refresh button to re-extract.
- macOS not supported — requires an Apple Developer account ($99/year) for notarization; not planned for v2.x
- Backup compatibility — importing backups from ThreadsVault for Android into ThreadsVault-desktop works seamlessly (Android → Desktop ✅). The reverse direction (Desktop → Android) is not yet supported and will be addressed in a future version.
Prerequisites:
- Node.js 20+
- Rust (stable toolchain)
- On Linux:
libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev,libgtk-3-dev,librsvg2-dev,libayatana-appindicator3-dev,patchelf(sudo apt install ...)
git clone https://github.com/D4vRAM369/threadsvault-desktop
cd threadsvault-desktop
npm install
npm run tauri buildThe compiled binary will be in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.
For development with hot-reload:
npm run tauri devBrowser-only mode (no Tauri, uses IndexedDB instead of SQLite):
npm run dev| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Shell | Tauri v2 |
| Frontend | Svelte 5 (runes) + TypeScript |
| Styles | Tailwind CSS v4 |
| Storage (desktop) | SQLite via @tauri-apps/plugin-sql |
| Storage (browser) | Dexie (IndexedDB) |
| Post extraction | Jina Reader (r.jina.ai) + direct HTML fallback |
| i18n | Custom i18n.ts (~130 keys, ES/EN) |
Built through PBL (Project-Based Learning) — documented with learning artifacts for personal use and study sessions.
Developed primarily with assistance from Claude Code and to a lesser extent ChatGPT-5.3-Codex.
GPL-3.0 — same as ThreadsVault for Android.