TidyFind turns your Desktop, Downloads and Documents into one searchable library. Type what you remember and the file appears, even when the only clue is a word inside a screenshot. Then it keeps everything tidy.
Remembers where every download came from
Gmail
Google Drive
WhatsApp
Slack
ChatGPT
GitHub
AirDrop
Canva
Any websiteNo folders to dig through and no syntax to learn. Describe the file and TidyFind shows exactly how it read your words, as filters you can remove.
Sample files, so you can try it right here in your browser.
Smart Names
TidyFind reads what's inside screenshots, photos and PDFs and suggests names you'll actually recognise, like “Invoice INV-2026-041 Acme Robotics” instead of “download (3).pdf”. On Macs with Apple Intelligence the names come from Apple's on-device model, so nothing is uploaded. You approve every name, and it's all undoable.
Privacy Check
That screenshot of a card payment. The KYC form with your PAN and Aadhaar. The note with an API key. TidyFind spots card numbers, ID numbers, bank details, passwords and keys in screenshots, PDFs and notes, and helps you move them somewhere safe. Numbers are checked before they're flagged, and only masked parts are shown.
Text in images
TidyFind reads the text in screenshots, photos and scanned PDFs, on your Mac. Search for the Wi-Fi password you screenshotted months ago, then copy it straight out of the image with ⇧⌘C.
Downloads Inbox
Each new download waits for a quick decision, with a big preview. Press 1 to file it where TidyFind suggests, K to keep it or ⌫ to trash it. TidyFind learns where you put things, so the next invoice already knows its folder.
Rules
Describe the files the way you'd search for them, then choose what happens: move, tag, rename or trash. File screenshots into a folder for each month, or clear out installers a week after you download them. You see exactly which files a rule will touch before you switch it on.
Clean Up
Smart suggestions for big old videos, old installers, zips you already unzipped and files you downloaded twice. You review every file first. Nothing is deleted outright: it all goes to the Trash, and Activity can undo it.
Duplicates
Exact copies are matched by their contents, not their names, and look-alike photos are grouped too. TidyFind picks the copy to keep; click another to change it.
Storage Map
Every folder becomes a block sized by what it holds and coloured by what's inside. Click a block to zoom in until you find that forgotten 2 GB video.
The details that make it feel like it was always part of your Mac.
Press ⇧⌘Space wherever you are. A small panel drops in, and ↩ opens the file.
Every download grouped by where it came from. Find the invoice by remembering the email, not the filename.
Every move, rename, tag and trash is listed in Activity, including what your rules did.
Patterns with dates, counters and sources, with a live before-and-after preview.
Type “beach”, “mountains” or “dog”. Apple's on-device image recognition describes every photo in your folders, even ones called IMG_2214.
Code projects show up as one tidy item instead of thousands of source files. Clean Up finds node_modules, build caches and virtual environments in projects you haven't touched for a month.
Press Space to preview. The inspector shows dimensions, camera, source, tags and the text inside.
Follows your Mac's appearance. Switch between a colourful look and a calm monochrome one with ⌃⌘T.
TidyFind can see every file on your Mac, so it was built to keep them there.
Text and photo recognition use Apple's Vision framework, and Smart Names uses Apple Intelligence's on-device model. No account and no uploads.
Clean Up and Duplicates move files to the Trash, and every change can be undone from Activity.
Files that only live in iCloud are skipped during scans, so nothing gets downloaded behind your back.
A license check and an update check. Never your files, file names or searches.
Pay once and use it for life. No subscription, no account.
Personal license
$19one-time
For macOS 14 Sonoma or later. About a 6 MB download. Your license key arrives by email.
For macOS 14 Sonoma or later. One email at launch, nothing else. We never share your address.
No, it works alongside it. Use TidyFind to find, sort and clean up, and choose "Show in Finder" whenever you want the classic view. Your folders stay exactly as they are unless you move something.
Never outright. Anything you or a rule removes goes to the Trash, and every change is listed in Activity with Undo.
No. Indexing, text recognition and duplicate detection all run on your Mac. Searching inside documents uses the Spotlight index macOS already keeps.
No. On Macs with Apple Intelligence (macOS 26 and later), names come from Apple's on-device language model, which runs on your Mac and works offline. On other Macs, TidyFind uses its own built-in rules. Either way, your files and their contents never leave your Mac.
Only for two things, and never with your files, file names or searches. It checks your license key with Dodo Payments, the shop that sells TidyFind, when you activate or deactivate it and about once a week after that. Activating also sends your Mac's name, so you can tell your Macs apart. And it checks for new versions, which you can turn off in Settings. Activation needs a connection once. After that, if you're offline, TidyFind keeps working.
macOS protects those folders and asks once before any app can read them. You can choose which folders TidyFind looks at in Settings, and add others such as an external drive.
Files on your Mac are indexed as usual. Files that live only in iCloud are listed but never downloaded by a scan.
No. You pay once and get a lifetime license.
Yes. On the old Mac, open TidyFind ▸ Settings ▸ License and click Deactivate This Mac. Then enter the same key on the new one.
Any Mac with macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel.
One payment, every feature, yours for life.