Offline Files

Offline Files helps you search, browse and reconnect files across all your drives, even when a drive is offline.

Catalog internal, external and network volumes, then find files later by name, type, size, dates, Finder Tags and metadata. Results show which drive contains the file, so you know exactly what to reconnect.

Key features

- Offline Search across all indexed drives

- Shared catalogs for working across multiple Macs

- Offline Thumbnails for photos and videos

- Smart Analyze for searchable media categories on Apple Silicon

- Spotlight integration, so cataloged files can appear in macOS search

- Metadata search for richer filtering and discovery

- LUT preview, exposure controls and frame export for video work

- Menu bar search for quick lookups from anywhere on macOS

- Apple widgets for drive status on the desktop and in Notification Center

- Storage analytics, duplicate detection, gallery browsing, volume groups and more

Built for photographers, videographers, developers and anyone who works with multiple drives, backups or media archives.

Privacy

All catalog data stays local on your Mac. No cloud, no servers, no data transmission.