Lorph Adds Deep Research, Citations

This is the kind of update that moves an open-source chat app from novelty to utility. The important part is not the UI polish, but the retrieval loop: query expansion, parallel search, deep scraping, and synthesis with citations.

• –Multi-query planning plus DuckDuckGo Lite and YouTube search make it feel closer to a deep-research engine than a normal chatbot.
• –OCR, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and code/text ingestion let users ground answers in files, not just web pages.
• –Inline citations, extracted images, and embedded videos are the right trust signals for a research-first product.
• –The tradeoff is that it still relies on Ollama cloud access and proxy-based scraping, so self-hosted is a better fit than fully offline.
• –Its new listing in Awesome AI Web Search should help it reach the exact audience that cares about search-centric LLM tooling.