ProFind is an advanced file search app for macOS. With powerful features and high performance, it provides advanced file searches. It also supports natural language queries, app launchers, hidden location searches, scripts, and much more.

Searches inside invisible folders and packages. Searches any disk type.

Uses kernel-based search (searchfs), when available. Uses metadata indexes (used by Spotlight), when available, to improve performance. Auto-completion for application names. Large icon view for one or two search results.

With its elegant user interface, ProFind combines the power of macOS’s various search features to ensure it finds all the files you’re looking for. It’s also been carefully tuned for performance and responsiveness.

Full list of features

• Natural language search queries.
• Unlimited search results.
• Search inside invisible folders and packages.
• Searches any type of disk: Mac, Windows, servers, etc.
• Supported search locations: Home, Mac drives, local drives, servers, individual drives, open Finder folders.
• Saving and search history.
• Search by: name, creation date, modification date, file extensions, tags, parent folders, type, regular expression, wildcards, and attention metadata.
• Exclude words.
• Hashes: md4, md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512. (Show additional information).
• Autocompletion for application names, command names, and keywords.
• Full, unobscured display of file paths with highlighting of path differences.
• Large icon view for one or two search results.
• Spatial disk browsing (with preservation of window position, size, scroll position)
• Support for executing shell and AppleScripts on found elements.
• Highlighting of found words.
• Sidebar with: saved searches, history, favorites, recent items, built-in search for recent downloads and recently modified files.
• Context menus: Share, Services, Open, Show in Finder, Get Info, Copy Path.
• Quick access to your favorite folders.
• QuickLook Preview.
• Supports dark mode (10.14 Mojave).
• Drag and drop from the app.
• Menu bar icon on/off.
• Fully customizable hotkey for the entire system.
• Built-in command reference.