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The Finder your Mac should have come with.

Find any file in a few letters, see what's filling your Mac and clear it, and tidy Downloads in one click. Screenshots, clipboard history and quick answers come with it.

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Free · Apple silicon · macOS 13 or later

F2 with two folders side by side: Documents as a list, and a folder of photos as icons

Quick Open converting 100 USD to 89.09 EUR at the ECB's rate

Quick Open translating "good morning" into Japanese

Quick Open adding a reminder to call mom tomorrow at 17:00

Quick Open: 3pm here is 20:00 in London, and 15:00 in London, Canada

4.4 millionfiles and folders, found as you type

500×quicker than a blink, to open a folder

Half a blinkto see what's filling your whole disk

Storage almost full? Clear it in a few clicks.

F2 shows what's filling your Mac, and what's safe to let go of: installers you've already used, downloads you haven't opened in six months, old iPhone backups, apps' caches and duplicate files. Tick what you want gone. It goes to the Trash first, so you can always put it back.

Uninstall an app, and what it left behind in your Library goes with it.

Disk Usage: a ring chart of the startup disk beside a list of its folders, biggest first

Free Up Space: installers, old downloads, iPhone backups, app caches and the Trash, each with what it holds

Find anything, in plain words.

Type what you remember, the way you'd say it. Typos are forgiven, and your whole Mac is searched before you've finished typing.

photos from last weekbig videosinvoices from marchpdfs from todayscreenshots in downloads

F2 searching for "photos from last week" and finding the photos changed in the last seven days

Press ⌘ Space. Ask your Mac.

Quick Open floats over whatever you're in. Type a few letters to open an app or a file. Or ask it: the time in Tokyo, 100 dollars in euros, what a word means, how to say it in Japanese. It sets reminders, checks your AirPods' battery, and keeps your Mac awake until a download's done.

batteryspeed testkeep awakewifi passwordconnect airpodsuninstall zoom

Quick Open with nothing typed: favorite folders and commands

Quick Open showing the time in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin and Perth

Quick Open with the Dictionary's meaning of serendipity

Quick Open offering to turn Wi-Fi off, or open its settings

Downloads, tidied in one click.

Tidy Up sorts a folder's loose files into folders of their kinds: Screenshots, Images, Videos, Audio, Documents, Installers and Archives. Changed your mind? ⌘Z puts it all back.

It can keep your Desktop tidy too, filing screenshots away as you take them.

A Downloads folder full of loose screenshots, photos, PDFs, installers and zips — Before

The same Downloads folder after Tidy Up: a folder for each kind of file — After

My Mac told me storage was full every other week. F2 found 38 GB of old installers and iPhone backups in about a minute.

SigrúnTeacher

I type ‘photos from last week’ and there they are. I've stopped digging through folders.

MarkPhotographer

Tidy Up sorted three years of Downloads in one click. I didn't know I needed it until I had it.

PriyaStudent

Everything Finder does. Just quicker.

The same sidebar, tabs, Trash, AirDrop and iCloud Drive, so there's nothing new to learn, and Finder stays on your Mac. When you want more, it's there: two folders side by side, and zip files that open like folders.

Two folders, side by side.

Drag from one to the other, or press F5 to copy across. Handy for sorting photos into albums, or filling a USB stick.

Clipboard history: text, links, an image and files, newest first, with a preview of the one picked

Everything you copied, kept.

Text, links, images and files, newest first, with the whole of the one you pick beside the list. What password managers mark secret is skipped.

The little apps you'd pay for, built in.

Most Macs end up with a screenshot app, a PDF tool and a window snapper, bought one at a time. These come with F2, free.

Screenshots, marked up

An area, a window or the whole screen. Draw on it, blur what's private, or pin it on top while you work.

From the menu bar, or a shortcut

Small enough to email

Photos shrunk to 1600 pixels and videos to 720p, ready to send, without opening another app.

Right-click › Make Smaller

PDFs, put together

Turn photos and scans into one PDF, combine a few PDFs into one, or squeeze a big one down to send.

Right-click › Combine into PDF, Compress PDF

Text and backgrounds

Copy the text out of a photo, a screenshot or a scan. Lift a photo's subject off its background.

Right-click › Copy Text, Remove Background

Windows, side by side

Put two windows side by side, one in the middle, or one on the other screen, with a key.

Halves, thirds and quarters

Emoji, by name

Every emoji, arrow and symbol, found by what it is. Type ":" and a word in any search.

:check · :+1 · :arrow

And for power users.

Two panes, by keyboard

Tab between them, F5 copies across, F6 moves. Each pane keeps its own tabs.

Git's status

Modified, added and untracked files marked beside their names, as your editor marks them.

Terminal and editor

⌥⌘T and ⌥⌘E open the selection in Ghostty, iTerm, Zed, Cursor or VS Code.

Ports

"kill port 3000" finds what's listening there and stops it.

JSON, Base64, UUIDs

Format the clipboard's JSON, encode and decode, or copy the Unix time.

Snippets and quicklinks

Type ;date in any app for the date. "gh rust" searches GitHub.

See all 163 things F2 does

Up and running in a minute.

1Download
Open F2.dmg and drag F2 into your Applications folder.
2Say hello
The welcome shows what F2 asks your Mac for, and why, with a button for each.
3Press ⌘ Space
The welcome helps you move ⌘ Space over from Spotlight. Then type anything, in any app.

Questions

Does it replace Finder?

It works alongside it. Finder can't be taken off a Mac, and F2 doesn't try: open F2 from the Dock or the menu bar, and Finder's still there whenever you want it.

Is it safe for my files?

F2 works on your files just as Finder does. What it clears goes to the Trash, where Put Back works, and Tidy Up is undone with ⌘Z. Apple checks every version for malware before you open it.

Why does it ask for Full Disk Access?

So search can find what's in your Desktop, Documents and Downloads, and so it can empty the Trash. Without it, macOS asks about each of those folders as you open them.

What does it cost?

Nothing. F2 is free.

Which Macs does it run on?

Macs with Apple silicon (M1 and later), on macOS 13 Ventura or later.

Does it send my files anywhere?

No. Its search index stays on your Mac, and so do your files. It goes online to check for updates, and for what you ask that needs the internet: exchange rates, the weather, a speed test.

Give Finder the afternoon off.

Download F2, press ⌘Space, and type the name of anything on your Mac.

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Version 0.1.6 · Free · Apple silicon · macOS 13 or later