Findanyfilebywhat'sinsideit.
You never remember the file name. You remember it was the kitchen invoice, or the photo of the whiteboard. Type that — and there it is. Scans, screenshots and photographs included, in whatever language they are written in.
- Search works offline
- No account
- Nothing leaves your Mac
Your Mac already has everything.
It just can't find it.
Scan 2024-03-11.pdf is a picture of a page, so ordinary search finds nothing in it at all. Loupe reads the page, and describes the photograph next to it.
It reads what's on the page.
Invoices, letters, notes, spreadsheets, slides — and the paper you scanned. You search for what it said, not what it was called.
Photos and screenshots too.
Ask for “the whiteboard from the workshop” or “the screenshot of the booking”, and get it.
Whatever language you live in.
Japanese, Greek, Thai, German, Serbian. Nothing is skipped for being in the “wrong” one.
Always up to date.
A file you save is findable seconds later. There is no “rebuild index” button.
It gives you the file.
No chat, no waffle. A list of files, one line saying why each matched. Press ↩ and it opens.
Three steps, then you forget it's there.
Install it
One download, no account. Tick the folders it should look after — or point it anywhere on the disk.
It reads your files once
Quietly, in the background — minutes for documents, longer for a full disk. Photos are described afterwards, one at a time, so give those a while. After that it keeps up on its own.
Ask for what you want
Press ⌥Space and type it the way you would say it. Hit Return to open the file. That is the whole product.
Press ⌃⇥ and ask your code what it is.
Repositories stay out of everyday results. Hit Tab and it flips: now you are searching only code, by what a file does rather than what it was named.
- Ask in English. “component where the streak is shown in a sheet” finds the file, which contains neither phrase.
- Names are read as words.
showStreakInSheetbecomes “show streak in sheet”. - Declaring beats mentioning. The file that defines a thing outranks the ones that merely use it.
- Hundreds of languages. Vue and Svelte through to COBOL.
node_modulesand build output are skipped.
Read moreHow code search ranks a file
Your files never leave your Mac.
Reading your documents is a lot to ask of anyone. So all of it happens on your own computer. There is no server on the other end of this.
Nothing is uploaded
Not your files, not their names, not a list of them. Search works with the Wi-Fi off.
There is no account
No password, no profile, nothing to log into. A licence is a line of text you paste in once.
It only ever reads
It does not move, rename or delete a single file. Your folders stay exactly as you arranged them.
You can throw it away
Everything it knows lives in one file. Delete it and nothing of yours is affected.
The only download is the models themselves, once, on your first run — named and sized before anything starts, and the largest one can be switched off.
The whole of itPrivacy policy — every byte that leaves
Try it for a week. Then decide.
Same product on every plan — the only question is how you'd rather pay for it. If it hasn't saved you time in seven days, it isn't going to, and you'll have paid nothing.
Free trial
Everything, for a week.
No card, no account. When the week is up searching stops — nothing is moved, nothing is deleted.
Start the trialMonthly
Everything, month to month.
Cancel any time. No notice period, no email to write.
Choose monthlyLifetime
Everything, forever.
One payment, every future update included. Costs less than seven months of the subscription.
Buy it onceEvery plan includes
- Search everything on your Mac by what’s in it
- Scanned paper, photos and screenshots
- Every language your files are written in
- Nothing moved, renamed or deleted — it only reads
- Search your code by what it does
- Searching works completely offline
- Free updates while your plan is active
The things
people ask.
Weighing it against somethingSpotlight
A real person
reads these.
Ask anything. It is a small operation, so the reply comes from the person who built it, usually within a day.
- Trouble installing or getting started
- Refunds, licences and switching plans
- Something you wish it did
Find the thing you
gave up looking for.
Install it and tick the folders you actually keep things in. Give it a few minutes to read them — and longer for your photos, which are described one by one — then search for something you only half remember.