AnySearch Pro
Instant local file search for Mac, with filters & Pinyin
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Details
- External ID
- 1275859
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- AnySearch Pro
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Search
Description
AnySearch Pro finds any file on your Mac as you type. It indexes millions of files on-device, ranks the best match first, and lets you filter by type, size, date and folder, search in Pinyin, or ask in plain words. Nothing leaves your Mac.
Enrichment
- Niche
- macOS desktop and system utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- instant local file search tool for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While an electron/desktop wrapper is simple, high-performance local indexing of millions of files with real-time Pinyin romanization matching requires native OS hooks and optimized search data structures.
What it would actually take: Requires Swift or Rust using macOS native FSEvents and Spotlight/Metadata APIs (or direct APFS traversal), paired with an embedded search engine like SQLite FTS5 or Tantivy. The difficult part is building a sub-millisecond prefix search across millions of entries with low memory usage and accurate Pinyin tokenization/fuzzy matching, demanding systems-level programming.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 180 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #107 of 181 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 250 days after the earliest competitor.
- Search On Mac · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- fsearch · github · 2026-10-08 · 1945 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- FinderSearch · github · 2026-10-09 · 657 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Omni · hn · 2026-06-05 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Clipto · ph · 2026-05-31 · 522 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DigUp · github · 2026-10-08 · 1724 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- FinderBuddy · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- LocatorZero · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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