Cmd+Shift+F. Type what you remember. See the file before you open it.
Download for macOS — FreeYou saved something last week. A PDF, some notes. It's somewhere in Documents or that project folder you forgot you made.
You open Finder, type a name you half-remember, and get two hundred results or an error. The file you need is in neither.
Five minutes gone. You were looking for something that should take five seconds.
A client name buried in a document, a line of code from last month. Type it. findr searches inside your files and pulls up the match.
Every result shows a live preview right in the overlay. Scan the contents, check the image, read the first paragraph. Move on or open it.
findr indexes your home folder on first launch, and your files are searchable within seconds. New and changed files get picked up every 5 minutes in the background.
Your files never leave your machine and never get uploaded anywhere. No account, no sign-up required.
It's free. No trial period, no paid tiers.
Uses less memory than the Finder window you'd open instead.
Install it and press Cmd+Shift+F.
First launch: right-click the app, then click Open. macOS requires this for apps downloaded outside the App Store.