Every file.As you type.

Everyfile is a file search for Mac that finds every file by name as you type, on every drive: internal, external, even unplugged.

Download beta for macOS See how it works

Free · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon · v0.9.0

This beta is not notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.

Name	Folder	Drive	Size	Kind
Building 250,000 example file names…

… results · ms in your browserMacintosh HD · SSD T5 · Archive 2019

This demo runs in your browser on made-up file names. The app itself is native and searches millions of real files.

One million files read in 2.2 seconds

An external USB drive is a different race. Our FAT32 test SSD delivers about 12,000 files per second whatever the app, so 150,000 files take around 12 seconds.

Everyfile
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fts
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find
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FileManager
0.0 s

Measured on a MacBook with an M4 Pro chip: 1.02 million files, internal SSD, release build, warm cache. fts, find and FileManager are the usual ways Mac tools read folders. Shorter is better. After the first read, Everyfile only reads what changed.

How it stays instant

First it reads every drive once.
One pass over the file system, all cores at once. On the internal SSD that is 7.3 million files in 25 seconds.
Then it keeps a small index.
Names and a few facts per file, mapped from a snapshot on disk. Under 80 MB of memory per million files.
You type, the file is there.
The list updates on every keystroke. With 2 million names, 95 of 100 keystrokes were answered within 5 milliseconds.
Change a file, the index follows.
macOS reports what changed, even while Everyfile is closed. Rename a file in the list with F2 and the index is up to date at once.

SSD T5reading…

files read

Late Nights (Original Mix).flac
Paper Tigers (Extended Mix).flac
Glass Saturn.wav
IMG_2041.heic
logo final v2.fig

Made for big collections

FreeAvailable

Open, show, rename, Trash

Open a file, show it in Finder, press Space for Quick Look, drag it into another app. Rename it right in the list with F2. Move it to the Trash with ⌘⌫ and put it back any time. Everyfile never deletes for good and never touches drives or system, user and application folders.

late nights

Name	Folder	Size
Late Nights (Original Mix).flac	/DJ Sets/2024	42.0 MB
Late Nights (Extended Mix).flac	/DJ Sets/2025	48.6 MB
Late Nights (Dub).wav	/Sorted/Deep	71.4 MB
Late Nights Radio Edit.mp3	/Crates/Warmup	9.8 MB

F2 rename · ⌘⌫ Trash · Space Quick Look

ProAvailable

Audio columns

Bitrate, BPM, key, length and tags as columns you can sort and filter: bpm:120..128 bitrate:<192. Reads MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIFF and M4A in the background.

house bpm:122..126 lossless:

Title	Artist	BPM	Length	kbit/s
Riverside Ritual	Mona Vela	124	6:41	1,411
Lagoon Motion (Dub)	Night Ferry	122	7:12	1,003
Glass Saturn	Haldane	125	5:58	912
Paper Tigers (Extended Mix)	Ferro Twins	126	6:20	1,411
Afterglow Basement	Rue Noir	123	8:03	2,117
Static Island	Juno Park	124	6:12	1,036
Fever Horizon (VIP)	Blue Antler	126	5:47	1,411
Midnight Pulse	Cassia Moon	122	7:30	987

214 results · 0.6 msbpm:122..126

ProAvailable

Duplicates

Finds copies by size, then by a hash of start and end, then by the whole file. Spots the same song in another format and suggests which version to keep, lossless first. Exports a list as CSV or M3U. The finder itself never changes a file. Optional acoustic matching if fpcalc is installed.

Duplicates · SSD T5

Name	Folder	Size
Keep ·Paper Tigers (Extended Mix).flac	/Sorted/House/FLAC	58.2 MB
Paper Tigers (Extended Mix).flac	/Downloads/Music	58.2 MB
Paper Tigers (Extended Mix).mp3	/Crates/Warmup	14.9 MB
Keep ·Glass Saturn.wav	/DJ Sets/2024	71.4 MB
Glass Saturn (1).wav	/Desktop Music	71.4 MB
Keep ·Lagoon Motion (Dub).aiff	/Sorted/Deep	64.0 MB
Lagoon Motion (Dub).mp3	/Promo Packs/2023	17.3 MB

3 groups · 4 extra copies · 161.8 MBThe finder only lists and exports

FreeAvailableComing soon

System junk

Drives that move between Mac and Windows collect ._ files, Thumbs.db and desktop.ini. Everyfile hides them and shows them with junk:. A report of how much space they take is coming soon.

junk:

Name	Folder	Size
._Late Nights (Original Mix).flac macOS	/DJ Sets/2024	4 KB
._Glass Saturn.wav macOS	/DJ Sets/2024	4 KB
Thumbs.db Windows	/Sorted/House	38 KB
desktop.ini Windows	/Sorted/House	0.1 KB
.DS_Store macOS	/Crates/Warmup	6 KB
$RECYCLE.BIN Windows	/	—

junk: shows what is hidden by default

ProAvailable

Unplugged drives

Unplug a drive and its files stay searchable, greyed out. You see which drive to plug in before you go looking.

logo final

Name	Folder	Drive
logo final v2.fig	/Clients/Nordlicht/2026	Macintosh HD
logo final.ai	/Clients/Marea/2024	SSD T5
logo final.psd	/Clients/Halden Bau/2019	Archive 2019
logo final CMYK.pdf	/Clients/Halden Bau/2019	Archive 2019
logo final final.psd	/Clients/Kiosk 21/2018	Archive 2019

Archive 2019 is not connected · plug it in to open the file

Free, Pro, or Finder

Everyfile Free

Everyfile Pro

Finder search

Results on every keystroke

Everyfile Free:Yes

Everyfile Pro:Yes

Finder search:Waits for Spotlight

Every mounted drive

Everyfile Free:Yes, own index

Everyfile Pro:Yes, own index

Finder search:Only drives Spotlight indexed

FAT32 and exFAT drives

Everyfile Free:Yes

Everyfile Pro:Yes

Finder search:Often not indexed

Search syntax with filters (ext:, size:, dm:)

Everyfile Free:Yes

Everyfile Pro:Yes

Finder search:No

Open, show, Quick Look, rename, Trash

Everyfile Free:Yes

Everyfile Pro:Yes

Finder search:Yes

System junk hidden

Everyfile Free:Yes

Everyfile Pro:Yes

Finder search:Partly

Space report for system junk

Everyfile Free:No

Everyfile Pro:Coming soon

Finder search:No

Unplugged drives stay searchable

Everyfile Free:No

Everyfile Pro:Yes

Finder search:No

Audio columns: bitrate, BPM, key

Everyfile Free:No

Everyfile Pro:Yes

Finder search:Not as columns

Duplicate finder

Everyfile Free:No

Everyfile Pro:Yes, lists and exports only

Finder search:No

Command line tool and local API

Everyfile Free:No

Everyfile Pro:Coming soon

Finder search:No

Price

Everyfile Free:Free

Everyfile Pro:€24 once

Finder search:Part of macOS

Pricing

Free

€0forever

Everything you need to stop waiting for Finder.

Instant name search on every drive
Search syntax with filters
Live updates while you work
Open, show, Quick Look, rename, Trash
Light and dark mode, 8 languages

Download beta

Pro

Coming soon

€24once

For collections that outgrew their drives. One payment covers every 1.x update.

Everything in Free
Unplugged drives stay searchable
Audio columns and filters: BPM, bitrate, key
Duplicate finder
Space report for system junkComing soon
Command line tool and local APIComing soon

Want to try Pro during the beta? Write to hello@everyfile.app

For comparison: HoudahSpot lists at about $34.

What’s not here yet

This is a beta. What is described on this page works in the download today unless it is marked here or above.

Apple notarization
The beta is not notarized yet, so macOS asks you to confirm the first launch (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway).
In progress
Buying Pro
Pro licenses go on sale with 1.0. The key is checked offline, no account needed.
Coming soon
Automatic updates
They start once the update server is live. Until then, download new versions from this page.
Coming soon
Space report for system junk
Junk is hidden today; the report of how much space it takes is not built yet.
Coming soon
Command line tool and local API
The command line tool exists but is not part of the download yet.
Coming soon
Review of the translations
Eight languages are in the app. They were translated by machine and are being checked by native speakers.
In progress
Saved searches and history
Favourite searches and a history of what you looked for.
Planned
Network drives
Searching SMB shares, with scheduled rescans instead of live events.
Planned
Search inside files
Text in PDF, TXT and Markdown, switched on per folder.
Planned
DJ library warning
A hint if a file is used in Rekordbox, Engine DJ or Traktor before you remove it.
Planned

Before you install

No. Everything is made by voidtools for Windows, and we are not connected to them. Everyfile brings the same idea, instant search by file name, to the Mac, built natively for macOS. An Everything alternative for Mac →

Your drives. Found.

Pick your drives and start typing. Reading a drive takes seconds to minutes depending on the drive; after that, Everyfile only follows what changes.

Download beta for macOSDMG · v0.9.0 · 2.5 MB · macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon

SHA-256 771ae92b9d1221c0e60b9b0ebb6060029374c3547f61fe3ab1d1d19da371ef0b

This beta is not notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks the first launch. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.

Name	Folder	Kind
Late Nights (Original Mix).flac	/DJ Sets/2024	FLAC
Paper Tigers (Extended Mix).flac	/Sorted/House	FLAC
Glass Saturn.wav	/DJ Sets/2024	WAV

Every file.As you type.

One million files read in 2.2 seconds

How it stays instant

First it reads every drive once.

Then it keeps a small index.

You type, the file is there.

Change a file, the index follows.

Made for big collections

Open, show, rename, Trash

Audio columns

Duplicates

System junk

Unplugged drives

Free, Pro, or Finder

Pricing

Free

Pro

What’s not here yet

Apple notarization

Buying Pro

Automatic updates

Space report for system junk

Command line tool and local API

Review of the translations

Saved searches and history

Network drives

Search inside files

DJ library warning

Before you install

Is this Everything for Mac?

Why not just use Spotlight?

Does it change my files?

Does anything leave my Mac?

Will it slow my Mac down?

Why is the download a beta?

Why does macOS warn me on first launch?

What does it need?

Which languages?

Your drives. Found.