Search your Mac by what a file says, not what it's called

Files end up called scan_0042.pdf, Untitled 3 or IMG_2708. Months later the name tells you nothing, but you still remember what the document was about: a lease, an invoice, a recipe.

Searching by name asks you to remember the one thing you never paid attention to. Searching by meaning asks for the thing you actually remember.

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   It reads your files

   Find reads the text inside documents, slides, spreadsheets and PDFs. For scanned pages and screenshots it reads the text out of the image, on your Mac.

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   It matches two ways at once

   Your exact words are matched, and so is the meaning behind them. A search for “rental contract” can find a file that says “lease agreement”.

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   It shows its work

   Results are drawn as a small map: what you typed, the files it found, the folders they live in. One line under it says why a result matched.

• Documents and plain text files
• PDFs, including scanned ones
• Slides (.pptx) with their speaker notes
• Spreadsheets (.xlsx), the text in the cells
• Images and screenshots: the text in them is read on your Mac

By default Find looks in your Desktop, Documents and Downloads. In Settings you add folders, or skip folders such as generated files and other people's projects.

If you add your own AI key, Reperi writes a one-line summary and a few tags for each document from its opening text. A file named scan_0042.pdf can then be found as “lease for the apartment on Nguyen Hue”.

This is optional. Without a key, Find still searches by words and by meaning. Text read from images is never sent to the AI. See how Reperi handles your data.

• Copies of the same file are folded into one result. “+3 copies” opens the list of where the others are.
• A preview card shows a thumbnail, the kind of file, its size and when it changed.
• Return copies the file to your clipboard. Command+Return shows it in Finder. “Open” opens it.
• With nothing typed, Find lists your newest files.