LOCSEEK FOR MACOS

Find files by name
No spinning. No waiting.

Built for the moments when macOS search spins, stalls, or misses a file you know is there. Locseek searches names and shows results as you type.

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Native macOS · No account · No telemetry · No ads

Locseek Product demo
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Index up to date

Interactive demo over 10,000 generated file names, filtered live in your browser. Not an app screenshot.

5 millionYears of files without the wait
Results as you typeNo submit button, no spinner — the list narrows on every keystroke
Zero uploadsQueries and file lists stay on your Mac

The five-million figure describes index scale exercised in development benchmarking. How fast Locseek feels on your Mac depends on your hardware, your drive, and how many files you index.

ONE JOB, DONE RIGHT

Not another everything box.

Spotlight is built for broad information retrieval. Locseek deliberately narrows the scope and perfects one path: finding a file by its name.

01 / ACCURATE

Results that stay true to disk

Creates, renames, and deletes flow into the index live. Exact, prefix, word-start, and contains matches are ranked predictably. What you find is what exists on disk—no ghost results.

02 / INSTANT

Search as you type

No submit button and no loading animation to hide delay. Search common folders while the first index is still being built.

03 / PRECISE

Narrow results in one line

Combine keywords with extension, kind, path, size, and date filters. Use wildcards or regex only when you need them.

ext:pdf date:today !draft
04 / NATIVE

One keyboard flow, all the way to Finder

Press ⌥Space, type, select, Quick Look with Space, open with Return, or reveal in Finder with ⌘Return. Locseek gets you there, then gets out of the way.

PRIVACY IS NOT A SETTING

Your files stay on your Mac.

Locseek does not need a cloud by design: no account, no telemetry, and no advertising SDKs.

No content reads

The index stores only essential metadata such as name, path, size, time, and kind.

No network

Indexing and search make no network requests. Queries and file lists never leave the device.

Only folders you authorize

The Mac App Store build runs in a sandbox and indexes only folders you explicitly grant through the system picker.

THE RIGHT TOOL

Use Spotlight broadly. Use Locseek when the name matters.

TaskLocseekSpotlight / Finder
Instantly filter many files by namePurpose-builtAvailable, but broader in scope
Regex and combined filtersBuilt inLimited or indirect
Search contents, mail, and the webOut of scopeWell suited
Local filename privacy boundaryExplicit: no network or content readsDepends on system search settings

Make finding a file feel instant again.

Locseek is available on the Mac App Store. Start free with full search quality in one everyday folder; unlock your whole Mac with Pro — yearly or as a one-time lifetime purchase.

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