Finda finds things — windows, browser tabs, code editor buffers, browser history, apps, files, etc. — in under 16 milliseconds.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Electron / Atom Shell


Spotlight is described as 'The system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on the system, it's designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer' and is a application launcher in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Spotlight for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Spotlight alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Spotlight are Flow Launcher, Alfred, Vicinae and Raycast.
Finda finds things — windows, browser tabs, code editor buffers, browser history, apps, files, etc. — in under 16 milliseconds.






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Access your files, programs, browser bookmarks, search engines and windows with a few key presses.





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