Windows Desktop Application

Your Research Universe.
Offline & Private.

ResearchVault brings your papers, notes, projects, tasks and files together in one secure workspace on your own Windows machine. No account, no cloud, no one reading over your shoulder.

Smart Paper Library
PDF Reader & Highlights
Wiki-Linked Notes
Discipline Templates
Instant Full-Text Search
Six Languages

How ResearchVault Empowers You

Academic research can be chaotic. ResearchVault gives it one home — and keeps that home yours.

1

Eliminate Information Silos

Papers, notes, datasets, protocols and action items live in one connected workspace. Wiki-links tie a note to the paper it came from and the project it feeds, so you always see the full picture.

2

Complete IP & Data Security

Your findings are valuable. ResearchVault stores its database and every attached file on your own PC — nothing is uploaded, so there is no server to leak from and no vendor lock-in to escape.

3

Structure You Can Defend

Projects are built from discipline templates — Biotechnology, AI & CS, Engineering, Medical, Social Science — so your literature review, hypothesis and results follow a structure you can export cleanly and stand behind.

Designed for Serious Researchers

A premium toolset for students, scientists and academics who want absolute data ownership and focus.

Template-Driven Projects

Start a project from a template designed for your discipline and its sections become your tabs — research question, literature review, protocol and the rest. Milestones you set appear on your dashboard and calendar.

Smart Paper Library

Import a PDF and its text is read for search; look a paper up by DOI; or add a reference by hand. Read, highlight in colour, keep your own notes — and copy a citation in APA, MLA, Chicago or BibTeX, offline.

Connected Notes & Wiki-Links

Research notes, ideas and meeting notes — each with the fields that kind actually needs. Type [[ to link a paper, project or another note, and backlinks show you everything that points here.

Tasks, Calendar & Data Vault

Tasks grouped by urgency, a calendar that draws deadlines from your projects automatically, and one indexed store for data, images and documents — with an Inbox folder that imports whatever you drop in it.

Instant Full-Text Search

Press Ctrl+K and search everything at once — titles, notes, metadata, and the extracted text inside every imported PDF — powered by a blazingly fast local search index.

Backup & Export

One-click backup of your whole vault into a single ZIP you can restore on any machine. Export your papers as a spreadsheet, and your notes and projects as clean Markdown other tools understand.

Research in Your Language

The entire interface is available in six languages — and your research content stays in whatever language you write it in.

EnglishEnglish
हिन्दीHindi
മലയാളംMalayalam
தமிழ்Tamil
తెలుగుTelugu
ಕನ್ನಡKannada

No Cloud Dependency

Your research is local. It works perfectly on flights, in labs, and off-grid. The one optional network feature — DOI lookup — runs only when you press the button.

One Robust Local Database

Everything sits in a single SQLite database on your machine, with your files beside it in ordinary folders you can see. No sync conflicts, no service outages.

Free, With a Fair Upgrade

The free edition shows one small banner for VMH Digital's own software — no ad network, no tracking. Remove it forever with a single one-time Microsoft Store purchase.

Bring Your Research Home

One workspace for your papers, notes, projects and files — on your own machine, in your own language, under your own control.

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