Spotlight

22 likes

Cost / License

Free
Proprietary

Application typeApplication types

Origin

United States

Platforms

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Features

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
Indexed search
File Search
Application Launchers
File preview

Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

Thunder Z

★★★★★

Mar 3, 2020

Spotlight is still one of the best system wide search engines thus far being trailed far behind with Window's slowly improve start search in Windows 10.

What is Spotlight?

Spotlight is 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, including documents, pictures, music, applications, and System Preferences. In addition, specific words in documents and in web pages in a web browser's history or bookmarks can be searched. It also allows the user to narrow down searches with file attributes (e.g. creation dates, modification dates, sizes, types) and, as of OS X 10.9, tags. Pre-installed plugins for the New Oxford American Dictionary and Calculator applications also included in OS X allow Spotlight to define words and evaluate mathematical expressions.

Adapted from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(software)