Features
Everything you remember. One search away.
Files, photos, apps, windows and tabs, clipboard, Mail and Calendar — found by describing them, in about a tenth of a second, all on your Mac.
Search by memory
Describe it. Don’t name it.
Type what you remember — what it was, when you used it, where it came from. SearchOnMac turns “the contract I signed last week” into the file.
One list
Every kind of thing, together.
Folders, email, calendar events, open tabs and things you copied appear in one list, grouped the way Spotlight does it — so the answer is there whichever app it lives in.
Preview and act
See it before you open it.
Press ⌘ Y for a preview beside the results, and ⌘ K for everything you can do: open, show in Finder, copy, share or move to the Trash.
Understands meaning
Finds it even when the words differ.
Search “vacation” and find the Lisbon Trip folder and your flight confirmation. On-device AI matches meaning, not just letters — without anything leaving your Mac.
Learns from you
Gets better the more you use it.
When you pick a result, SearchOnMac remembers it for the next time you search something similar — and when it opens, it suggests what you’re likely to need.
What it searches. All of it, at once.
Files and folders
Names, dates and kinds — and the text inside PDFs, documents and screenshots.
Apps
Every app you have, and whether it’s already open.
Windows and tabs
Open windows on every desktop, and tabs in Safari, Chrome and Arc.
Clipboard history
The last 100 things you copied. Concealed passwords are skipped.
Find emails by who sent them, the subject and the date.
Calendar
Your events, and the files you used around a meeting.
And the little things.
⌥ Space, from anywhere
One shortcut opens it over whatever you’re doing.
All from the keyboard
Arrows to move, Return to open, ⌘ K for every action.
Quick maths and system actions
Work out a sum or switch on Dark Mode without leaving the keyboard.
Suggestions when it opens
What you’re likely to need next, before you type a thing.
Works offline
Searching never uses the network. Airplane Mode is fine.
Native and fast
A Swift app for macOS. Results in about a tenth of a second.
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
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