Search On Mac
Search your Mac the way you think.
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Details
- External ID
- 1269259
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Search On Mac
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7689975364790601
- Tags
- User Experience, Menu Bar Apps, Apple
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Search your Mac by describing what you remember. SearchOnMac finds files, apps, windows, and clipboard history with fast, native macOS search.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop clipboard managers and utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- semantic local file search for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While basic semantic search wrappers exist, hooking deeply into macOS system APIs for window titles, clipboard history, accessibility APIs, and local vector embeddings requires non-trivial native Swift/macOS systems programming.
What it would actually take: A native macOS application built with Swift and SwiftUI using system APIs like CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo, NSPasteboard, and Spotlight/CoreServices, coupled with a local embedding model (e.g., via CoreML / Apple Neural Engine) indexing local text chunks into SQLite-vec. The hard part is managing system permissions (Accessibility, Full Disk Access) reliably, handling battery/resource throttling during background indexing, and low-latency native IPC.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 366 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #111 of 367 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- Clipappboard · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- SupaClip · ph · 2026-09-30 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Screen Index · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- CopyPal · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Backpocket · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Switchover · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ClipKeep · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Tabnax · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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