FinderSearch
A native macOS file browser with fast fuzzy filename search, powered by fsearch.
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Details
- External ID
- 1411491009
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- FinderSearch
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 657
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.99
- Tags
- appkit, file-manager, macos, search, swift
Enrichment
- Niche
- system utilities and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fuzzy filename search file browser for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping the `fsearch` engine in a native macOS UI is feasible, implementing real-time filesystem crawling and indexing alongside snappy fuzzy search requires careful native systems programming.
What it would actually take: The app requires a Swift/AppKit or SwiftUI frontend coupled with a high-performance native indexing engine written in C or Rust. The core bottleneck is interacting with macOS FSEvents to maintain a live, low-memory file index and executing low-latency fuzzy matching across hundreds of thousands of paths without freezing the main runloop.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 864 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #15 of 865 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 345 days after the earliest competitor.
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