About HoudahSpot
HoudahSpot is a versatile and easy-to-use desktop search tool for Mac. It combines the speed of Spotlight with precise search criteria, flexible results display and previews to help to find the right document, music,...
HoudahSpot is an versatile desktop search application. It builds upon Spotlight, which comes preinstalled with macOS. It makes Spotlight both more powerful and easier to use.
HoudahSpot provides a clear and structured interface that focuses on file search. It gets you to your files as quickly as possible.
* Find files by name, text, content kind, author, pixel count, etc.
* Combine criteria to narrow down search results
* Specify which folders to search and which ones to exclude
* Add any of the hundreds of columns available
* Apply filters to reduce search results to only the relevant items
* Preview files and text matches
* Open files and, where the application supports it, continue searching for text matches by pressing command-G (Find Next)
HoudahSpot is indispensable to unearth hard-to-find files. It also works great as a replacement to the default Spotlight interface.
If you've ever had a hard time finding a file before, this is what you've been looking for.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of HoudahSpot since it was posted on our website on 2015-04-26 03:00:00.
The latest version is 6.5 and it was updated on 2024-04-26 22:36:42. See below the changes in each version.
HoudahSpot version 6.5
Updated At: 2023-12-15
Changes: * Addresses a change in macOS Sonoma where HoudahSpot fails to load file tag colors
* Updated ForkLift integration to work with the latest version of ForkLift
* Fixes a bug displaying files with multiple tag colors
* Fixes a problem where Text Preview failed to show .eml mail message files
HoudahSpot version 6.4.1
Updated At: 2023-09-22
Changes: * Updated for macOS 14 Sonoma
* Caveat: Apple Mail on macOS 14 no longer accepts plug-ins. HoudahSpot will not be able to search your Apple Mail messages
* Improves performance when selecting a large number of files
* HoudahSpot can now edit Finder comments
HoudahSpot version 6.3.2
Updated At: 2023-08-28
Changes: * Compatibility Mail on macOS 13.6 Ventura
* Note: macOS 14 Sonoma will no longer allow Mail plug-ins
HoudahSpot version 6.3
Updated At: 2023-03-25
Changes: * Some of the sample search templates now auto-start upon opening
* HoudahSpot now translates Mail flags to color names
* New sample template: "Name Does Not Contain"
* Adding double quotes to search text in the main search field has HoudahSpot search for an exact match
HoudahSpot version 4.3
Updated At: 2017-05-31
Changes: - Improved performance. Faster scrolling. Faster refresh when files change
- Easy file tagging from the contextual menu
- Improved autocomplete on Finder tags in search and file tagging
- Improved support for international character sets in text preview
HoudahSpot version 4.2.10
Updated At: 2017-02-20
Changes: - In Text Preview, URLs are now highlighted and clickable
- Improved support for macOS Spaces: New searches now open in the current Space
- Some text was displayed in the system language, rather than the application language. HoudahSpot is currently available in English, German, and French
HoudahSpot version 2.5.9
Updated At: 2009-09-25
Changes: HoudahSpot 2.5 brings search "any text".
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