FileOctopus A native macOS file manager with familiar browsing, flexible panes, and search you can inspect.
Find files using natural language
Try screenshots last week, videos larger than 1 GB, or downloaded from github. FileOctopus turns supported phrases into visible kind, date, size, and source filters. Check the chips to see exactly what your search means.
Explore supported phrases and everyday search use cases →
This is local, rule-based interpretation of supported phrases. It does not understand arbitrary requests or search by semantic similarity.
What you can do
- Browse in Icon, List, Column, or Gallery view, expand folders in a list, sort and group files, and use familiar keyboard selection.
- Arrange nested panes and tabs, move between folders without losing your place, and save named workspaces.
- Copy, move, rename, duplicate, and trash files with conflict choices, operation feedback, and supported Undo.
- Preview and inspect files with Quick Look, live previews, Get Info, tags, and source metadata.
- Search a folder, open panes, or approved indexed locations; opt into file contents and text in images per folder.
- Collect file references on the Shelf, preview batch renames, and save searches in the sidebar.
About this guide
This guide describes the current development build, not a signed public release. FileOctopus targets Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later. Cross-version, accessibility, real cloud-provider, and real-volume safety checks remain part of release validation.
Features with narrower availability are called out where they appear. In particular, image/video transforms remain fixture-only; network clients, semantic AI search, and folder synchronization are not available. See current limits and feature status.
Watch: turn a phrase into filters
A real Find session: combine kind, date and size, broaden the query by removing a chip, then try recorded origin and a supported Vietnamese phrase.
Recorded in FileOctopus using fictional files. No audio. Playback is 1.25×. GitHub origins are synthetic metadata in the demo files; no account is connected. Result counts depend on the fixture and recording date.
Read the demo steps
- In Find, use This Mac, which is restricted to the fixture's approved folder in this recording.
- Enter ‘pdfs from last week over 5 mb’. The app creates PDF, Last week and > 5 MB chips. This fixture has no matching files.
- Open the size chip menu and remove that condition. ‘pdfs from last week’ returns seven matching fixture files.
- Enter ‘downloaded from github’. Two files with recorded GitHub origin appear.
- Enter ‘tệp PDF tuần trước’. The PDF and Last week chips return the same seven files as the English date-and-kind query.