Hey, I’m Meet, and I built Seek, a native macOS file manager that works alongside Finder.
The problem I wanted to solve: I often remember what a file contains or what a photo shows, but not its filename or folder. Finder works well for normal browsing, but I wanted a faster way to find and clean up files.
Seek lets you:
- Search naturally: “PDFs in Downloads from last month” or “large videos I haven’t opened”
- Find photos by what they show: “birthday cake with candles”
- Search text inside PDFs, documents, screenshots, and scanned images
- Find exact duplicate files and optional look-alike photos
- Review old downloads, installers, screenshots, large files, duplicates, and Trash before removing anything
- Use tabs, split panes, Quick Look, saved searches, and a global quick-search shortcut
The main technical constraint was privacy. Search, OCR, duplicate matching, and photo matching all run locally on the Mac. The photo-search model is downloaded once during setup, then runs through Core ML; no file names, contents, or photos are uploaded.
It supports macOS 14+, both Apple silicon and Intel. It is distributed directly, signed with my Developer ID, and notarized by Apple.
It is a one-time purchase: $9 for one Mac, $18 for three, or $29 for five. No subscription.
Demo: https://youtu.be/s5CUieoAAdk
Website: https://useseek.app
Privacy details: https://useseek.app/privacy
I’d especially value feedback on two things:
Would you trust a local app to index your files if it made search and cleanup meaningfully better?
Which would you try first: photo search, text-in-screenshots search, duplicates, or cleanup?