Branchway
A calmer Mac file manager that searches inside your files
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A native Finder replacement. ⌘K search takes a path, a name or a plain sentence, finds photos by what is in them and, with an on-device model, passages in PDFs, Office files and video moments. Tabs, dual panes, disk map, Large Files, Clean Up, themes. 14-day trial.
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PH · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 10%)
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
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See all 326 similar launches →Could you build this?
Partial The Finder-replacement UI, tabs, and disk tools are standard native Mac work, but on-device semantic search across photos, PDF passages, and video moments requires heavy indexing and ML.
What it would actually take: The file browser can be built natively in Swift with AppKit or SwiftUI and FSEvents. The hard parts are an efficient on-device indexing pipeline that covers images, documents, and video, and embeddings that return accurate passage and video-moment hits. This needs ML engineering for Core ML models and careful performance tuning.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 326 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 327 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
- strata-files · github · 2026-10-11 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- FinderBuddy · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Search On Mac · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- scry · github · 2026-10-13 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- GetSpace · ph · 2026-10-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Foldwise · ph · 2026-10-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) · hn · 2026-07-07 · 98 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Pathsta · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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More details
- External ID
- 1285024
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- Branchway
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.90
- All tags
- Mac, Productivity
- AI summary
- content-searching file manager for mac
- Manually corrected
- No