Quickly catalogs your entire media and disk library, and your backup archive

NeoFinder for Mac

NeoFinder for Mac

  -  39.2 MB  -  Freeware
NeoFinder for Mac rapidly catalogs your entire disk and media library, and backup archive. NeoFinder keeps track of your documents, photos, songs, movies, and folders wherever they are stored. Catalog everything - hard disks (internal, external, USB, FireWire, Thunderbolt), server disks, DVD-ROMs, CD-ROMs, iPods, Blu-ray, USB sticks, and get a full inventory of all files, folders, and important metadata, including thumbnails for photos and video files.

Find It Now!
The most powerful Find options to locate your digital treasures. Tell the app what you are looking for and get the best results. You can even search for duplicates! NeoFinder also searches Spotlight, to find local files as well. Smart Folders are available, too!

Proven Technology
More than 70,000 customers and companies in 100 countries use the tool. Try the app now, and if you like it, buy your license and keep using your catalog database.

Power
The app easily handles thousands of hard disks, server volumes, DVDs, Blu-rays, RAID, CDs, anything. Millions of files? Terabytes of data? Yes, this product can!

Photos
The app generates beautiful thumbnails of your photo archive (including RAW formats!) and other images, such as PDF, EPS, and AI. NeoFinder also catalogs and searches Adobe XMP, IPTC and EXIF metadata, as well as GPS geotags for the Geo Photo Management. Generate beautiful Photo Contact Sheets.

iPhone / iPad
Only the app is also available for the iPhone and iPad! Keep your NeoFinder catalogs with you all the time, and search them wherever you are More...

Music Organizer
Catalog your songs, metadata included (MP3, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, AIFF, WAV, SoundDesigner 2, Broadcast Wave Format BWF), with ISRC, cover art, and lyrics. Catalog Audio-CDs as well. Quickly find all of your music!

Movies
Get thumbnails of video files with the tool. Supports all QuickTime supported movie formats, including .mov, .avi, .m4v, .mkv, .flv, and others. The app even catalogs Elgato EyeTV recordings, and RED .r3d files!

Support
Neo Finder for macOS comes with an extensive online Users Guide, and there are also the FAQ, license Q&A, video tutorials, and more available right here. And if that is not enough, ask the support team, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook!

GeoFinder
Find photos and videos taken at any place anywhere in the world, using a street level map. Export your photos as KMZ for Google Earth, and much more.

Network
Share you're the app database in your network with other Macintosh computers, and even with Windows machines (using the side-kick abeMeda for Windows)!

Workflow
Integrate the tool into your existing workflows. The app can catalog disks right from the Finder, freshly created disks from Roxio Toast, or drag out a file directly from the app into the Finder, Apple Pages, Keynote, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Quark XPress, or others.

Integration
Use Neo Finder with AppleScript or special Find-URLs. Run Find operations, check the results, or even catalog disks automatically, it is all possible.

Note: Can catalog up to 10 volumes. Requires 64-bit processor.

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What's new in this version:

New and updated features:
- Massively improved the scheduling of the Auto Updater, increased reliability when running a schedule in situations where a modal dialog is active, and more
- Catalog thumbnails and metadata of high-res open-source ".avif" files, in macOS 14 "Sonoma" and newer
- QuickEdit is available in the Gallery View
- Video Converter can export the audio track as a .m4a file
- Catalog the Publication Date of ePub books
- The Photo Contact Sheet displays the sample output in its window based on the selected page setup format
- Duplicate Watermark Presets, to make it easier to create new, similar presets
- Cataloging a file server volume adds the server name to the Catalog and shows it in the Inspector
- Contextual menu for a folder adds "Export as Web Gallery"
- GeoSearch from the Inspector Label Menu of a GPS GeoTag asks you for the radius of the search
- Moving a Catalog or a Catalog Folder into another folder where such an item would already exist now presents a duplicate items warning, and the option to overwrite, keep both, or ignore
- Improved context menu for locked or write protected items
- Improved compatibility with the new ffmpeg 7

Fixed:
- Reduced memory use when showing very large catalogs
- Properly catalog umlauts in utf8 encoded .srt subtitle files
- Fixes a problem in the Video Converter where extracting the audio into mp3 format didn't always work
- Fixes a problem when some text files could have an incorrect thumbnail after Updating a Catalog
- Fixes a problem when trying to read the XMP color label name from certain video file formats
- Fixes a problem reading the color profile name of photos, if these had no IPTC or XMP metadata at all
- Improves behaviour when trying to save the Persons and Keywords list into a write protected database folders or locked files
- Works around a bug of macOS 14.4.1, where macOS wouldn't show our context menu in the integrated video player of the Gallery View
- Works around a bug of macOS 14.4.1 where access to the application preferences using the official Apple macOS frameworks is 200 times slower than before
- Works around multiple bugs of macOS 14.4, where some parts of the user interface were drawn incorrectly
- Works around a bug of macOS 14.5 where the border of a Popup Menu in the Inspector wouldn't always be drawn
- Works around a bug of macOS 14.5 where updated content of menus in the Find Editor wouldn't always be drawn
- Works around a bug in PhotoMechanic and other tools that placed a GPS GeoTag with a very low geographical precision in the XMP data
- Works around a bug of macOS 14.5 where selecting the "recent items" menu in the Display Filter didn't run the filter
- Works around a bug of macOS 15 beta where QuickLook didn't always return thumbnails
- Fixes many minor issues
- NeoFinder 8.6.1 requires Mac OS X 10.14 "Mojave" or newer, Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, or M3