ProFind 1.43

Fast, complete file search for any disk on your Mac, with no Spotlight required. ProFind combines more than a dozen search criteria behind an elegant and extremely powerful interface. Search by name, date, size, tags, file contents, and more, in plain English or with powerful boolean queries, then act on your results instantly.

Search the way you think
Type queries in natural language, with autocompletion for commands, keywords, and application names. Use everyday date and size commands like "modified this year" or "bigger than 1mb". Need more precision? Combine words and commands with and / or / not, group them with parentheses, and add regex, wildcards, whole-word, exact-name, and case-sensitive matching. Exclude words with a simple minus sign.

Look inside everything
ProFind searches text inside files, including PDF, Word, and RTF documents, with optional OCR for image-based and scanned files. It searches inside zip and tar archives and lets you browse them, and it looks inside invisible folders and packages too. With Image Recognition, you can find photos by their visual content using on-device machine learning (macOS 12 or later).

Any disk, even offline
ProFind searches any disk type: Mac disks, local disks, non-Mac formatted drives, servers, and network volumes. Optional disk caching indexes file names, sizes, and dates for even faster searches, especially on network disks, and lets you search disks even when they're disconnected. Spotlight isn't required, except for Spotlight metadata searches.

Act on what you find
Preview results with Quick Look, run shell scripts, AppleScripts, and macOS Shortcuts on found items, or export results to text or CSV. Browse the file system straight from the search field with Live Directory, which updates as files change.

Key features

• Natural language search: plain-English queries with autocompletion for commands, keywords, and application names.
• Content search: find text inside PDF, Word, and RTF documents.
• OCR: optional text recognition for image-based and scanned files.
• Archive search: search inside and browse zip and tar archives.
• Image Recognition: find photos by their visual content with on-device machine learning (macOS 12 or later).
• Boolean logic: combine words and commands with and / or / not and parentheses.
• Live Directory: browse the file system from the search field with live updates.
• No Spotlight required: fast searches without depending on Spotlight (except for metadata searches).
• Disk caching: faster searches on network disks, and search disks even when disconnected.
• Any disk type: Mac disks, local disks, non-Mac formatted drives, servers, and network volumes.
• Hidden locations: search inside invisible folders and packages.
• Flexible search locations: home, Mac disks, local disks, servers, individual disks, or open Finder folders.
• Rich search criteria: name, creation and modification date, extension, tags, parent folder, kind, size, regex, wildcards, and Spotlight metadata.
• Natural date and size commands: try "modified this year" or "bigger than 1mb".
• Precise matching: exclude words, plus whole-word, exact-name, and case-sensitive matching.
• Automation: run shell scripts, AppleScripts, and macOS Shortcuts on found items.
• Saved searches and history: revisit any search anytime.
• Export: save results to text or CSV.
• File hashes: MD4, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 in Advanced Info.
• Full file paths: non-obscured paths with path-difference highlighting.
• Custom results view: customisable columns, relevance ranking, and a large-icon view.
• Match highlighting: see matched words right in your results.
• Built-in help: command reference and ready-to-use query examples.
• : fully configurable, plus an optional menu bar icon.
• Dark Mode: fully supported.

Download ProFind and find anything on your Mac, like a pro.