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Found provides a lightning-fast, intuitive search experience that finds files across your Mac and personal cloud services, including Dropbox, Google Drive/Docs, and Gmail (attachments).

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Proprietary

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac
Discontinued

No longer supported actively and not available on Mac app store.

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  • Developed by

    US flagFound Software, Inc.
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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What is Found?

Found provides a lightning-fast, intuitive search experience that finds files across your Mac and personal cloud services, including Dropbox, Google Drive/Docs, and Gmail (attachments).

With a double tap of the control key, Found slides out to reveal its unique Palette user interface. Start typing and get immediate results with an instant, full-sized preview of nearly any file, even files in the cloud.

Press coverage: "The key to Found is speed." --ReadWriteWeb "Once you install it on your computer, looking for things in Found quickly becomes second nature." --TechCrunch "Being able to preview all of the files fitting a search criteria without changing browsers or windows is pretty awesome." --TheNextWeb "…people store so much personal data in the "cloud," that [just] searching your own local computer…kind of misses the point." --CNET "…there are some nice touches that reflect smart, careful design…" --VentureBeat

Key features:

  • Get back to the file you just downloaded or were recently using by typing a few characters
  • Quickly look up a file and glance at its contents without having to dig through Finder and launch an application
  • No need to log into Google Drive/Docs or Gmail just to look at or re-download a file/attachment
  • Drag and drop search results into local folders as copies or emails as attachments
  • Search and preview files whether you're online or offline

What sources does Found search?

  • Your Mac's Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music, and Pictures folders
  • Dropbox - autodetects it on your Mac
  • Google Drive/Docs and Gmail attachments - attach multiple Google accounts, both personal and Google Apps accounts

How does search work in Found?

  • Immediately responsive, character-by-character search
  • Search using just partial word prefixes - the whole word is rarely necessary. Type 'mov' for results with 'movie', 'move', and 'moving'.
  • No hard-to-remember query commands to learn - type 'pdf' to look up PDF documents or 'alan' for Google Drive/Docs shared with Alan
  • Found indexes each file's name, path, and, if applicable, email from/to/subject fields or Google Drive/Docs last-modified-by name

How secure and private is Found?

  • All your logins and passwords are securely stored in encrypted form in your Mac's Keychain
  • Found connects your Mac directly to your personal cloud services with no intermediary to index your personal data
  • All searching is done locally on your Mac. No server is involved.

Find out more at foundapp.com.

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