ProFind
The facts below are what the maker publishes about ProFind, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From ProFind's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| ProFind for Mac trial | Free | macOS 11 or later · free 14-day trial |
| ProFind for Mac | $6.99, paid once | macOS 11 or later · one-off purchase; App Store version requires an in-app purchase after the free 14-day trial |
The facts
Each one read from ProFind's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Access limit
- Users cannot search inside folders they do not have permission to open.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Actions and integrations
- Users can run shell scripts, AppleScripts, and macOS Shortcuts on found items, and use QuickLook previews.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Archives
- ProFind can search inside and browse zip and tar archives.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Connection security
- ProFind Remote operates over an encrypted connection on the local network.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Disk caching
- Optional disk caching indexes file names, sizes, and dates and can let users search disks while they are disconnected.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Disk support
- ProFind searches Mac, Windows, server, network, and other disks.checked 4 Oct 2026
- File contents
- Content search covers files including PDFs, Word, and RTF documents, with optional OCR for image-based and scanned files.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Image recognition
- Image Recognition finds photos by visual content using on-device machine learning and requires macOS 12 or later.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- ProFind searches disks and files using a range of criteria through a natural-language and boolean-query interface.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Requirements
- The current ProFind version 1.42 requires macOS 11 or later.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Results
- Search results can be exported to text or CSV and shown with configurable columns, relevance ranking, and highlighted matches.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Search criteria
- Search by name, dates, extension, tags, parent folder, kind, size, regex, wildcards, and Spotlight metadata.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker invites help requests, bug reports, feedback, and feature requests through its contact form.checked 4 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Companion app
- The free ProFind Remote iOS app lets users search their Mac from an iPhone or iPad and preview, download, and share results; it requires ProFind for Mac.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Sydney, Australiachecked 28 Sep 2026
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