SearchOnMac for macOS
Find anything on your Mac. Just describe it.
Type what you remember — “the PDF I downloaded this morning” — and SearchOnMac finds it in a tenth of a second. Files, apps, windows, tabs and clipboard, all on your Mac.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · Your searches never leave your Mac
You remember it was a PDF. You remember downloading it this morning, and who sent it. What you don’t remember is what it’s called. Spotlight needs the name. SearchOnMac only needs what you remember.
One search for everything you remember.
Search by meaning
Describe it the way you remember it.
No exact file names. Type “taxes” and find your Tax Documents folder. SearchOnMac understands what you mean, when you used it and where it lives.
Top Hit
Documents
Everything in one place
Files, mail, calendar and more. One search.
Documents, photos, apps, open windows and browser tabs, Mail, Calendar and everything you copied — found together, grouped the way Spotlight does it.
Top Hit
Calendar
Windows
Clipboard
Preview and act
Look before you open.
See a file without opening it, then open, reveal in Finder, copy or share it from the keyboard. ⌘K shows every action.
Top Hit
Documents
Private by design
It all happens on your Mac.
Your searches, files and screen never leave your Mac. The AI that understands you runs on your Mac too, and search keeps working with no internet.
Top Hit
Images
Documents
Privacy
Your files don’t go to the AI. The AI comes to your files.
Nobody wants their tax returns, photos and private mail on someone else’s server. SearchOnMac understands them without uploading a single one.
Typical cloud AI
Your files go to it.
- Your files are uploaded to understand them
- Processed on someone else’s computer
- Can be kept, logged or reviewed there
- Stops working without the internet
SearchOnMac
It comes to your files.
- Your files never leave your Mac
- Understood by your Mac’s own chip
- Nothing is stored anywhere else
- Works the same in Airplane Mode
- for results to appear, usually
- 0.1 s
- for results to appear, usually
- to understand what you typed
- 5 ms
- to understand what you typed
- searches sent off your Mac
- 0
- searches sent off your Mac
- from any app, anytime
- ⌥ Space
- from any app, anytime
Pricing
One plan, everything included.
SearchOnMac Pro is a monthly subscription with every feature included and unlimited searches. The price is shown at checkout, and you can cancel anytime.
SearchOnMac Pro
Monthly subscription · price shown at checkout
- Unlimited searches of files, apps, windows and browser tabs
- Text inside PDFs, documents and screenshots
- Clipboard history, Mail and Calendar
- Quick Look previews and ⌘K actions
- On-device AI: Local AI ranking and Apple Intelligence
- Suggestions when it opens, and learning from your choices
- Private: searches never leave your Mac
License key by email · activate in the app
Cancel anytime · Your license works offline, with a grace period for check-ins
Frequently Asked
Questions & Answers.
Everything you need to know about SearchOnMac, privacy, and how it works on your Mac.
SearchOnMac is a native macOS utility that lets users search their Mac using natural-language descriptions of what they remember. It searches files, apps, open windows and browser tabs, clipboard history, Mail and Calendar, using on-device AI for similar meanings and questions.
Stop searching. Start finding.
Press ⌥ Space and type what you remember. Everything on your Mac, one sentence away.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · Cancel anytime