Sorted
Your private AI file organizer for Mac
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Details
- External ID
- 1274297
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sorted
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 70
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.97
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence
Description
Sorted turns a messy Mac file system into a private, searchable library. Drop files or watch folders and it reads PDFs and images with OCR, detects duplicates, applies local AI tags, follows your custom rules, and routes high-confidence matches automatically. Search by meaning, chat with documents using cited answers, review uncertain changes, undo anything, and export a clean Tax Pack for your accountant. Everything runs on your Mac. One-time $9.99 purchase.
Enrichment
- Niche
- file management tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- local ai file organizer for mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an Electron or basic macOS app can wrap local LLMs, building a reliable, privacy-preserving background filesystem watcher with native OCR and high-confidence automatic routing requires specialized macOS system programming.
What it would actually take: Built with Swift/SwiftUI and native macOS frameworks (FSEvents, Vision framework for OCR, CoreML or local Ollama/llama.cpp runtime). The difficult aspects are performant, low-battery background indexing of deep directory structures without locking files, handling sandboxing permissions, and ensuring deterministic, collision-free automatic file renaming/moving.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 194 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 195 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 268 days after the earliest competitor.
- Declutr · ph · 2026-09-29 · 84 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Files Magic AI File Rename & Organizer · ph · 2026-10-13 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Tidy — Your Mac, sorted in seconds · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Paprly · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- FinderBuddy · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Garage · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- FileSorter Pro · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- File Organizer · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46