AnySearch 2.5.0 — What’s New File Landscape See your whole Mac at a glance — no rescan required. Built from your existing index: • File & folder counts, total size • Breakdown by type (PDFs, images, videos, code…) and extension • Largest folders and files • Activity over the last 12 months, plus files untouched for a year • Possible duplicates • Per-disk view (This Mac / external / offline) Click any item to jump straight into search. Open via toolbar, Window → File Landscape, or ⌘⇧L.

Emoji search now works reliably. If a file name contains an emoji, you can search for it by that emoji and find the file every time — even when the emoji was typed differently from how it was saved .

You can now hide the recent files list. When the search bar is empty, AnySearch shows your 20 most recent files — handy for some, clutter for others. Turn it off under Settings → General → Results → Show recent files for a clean, empty start. It stays on by default, so nothing changes unless you want it to. Also in this release: • The help icon next to the Content toggle now opens its explanation on click, so the tip is easy to find instead of relying on hover.

- **Search a folder straight from Finder** — right-click any folder, choose **Services → Search in AnySearch**, and the search is instantly scoped to that folder. Works even for folders outside your regular index: AnySearch indexes them on demand, independently of (and without slowing) the main background index. Keep your index focused on a few folders and reach the rest only when you need to. - **Accurate folder scoping** — when a search is limited to a folder, results now stay strictly within that folder and its subfolders. Sibling folders that share a name prefix (for example, scoping to `Documents` no longer leaks results from `Documents2`) are correctly excluded.

• Filename wildcards in the search bar — use * and ? for patterns like *report.pdf, ??report, *.p?f • iCloud Drive files are now indexed (on by default; can be disabled under Settings → Index → Index iCloud Drive) • Fixed Chinese IME: spacebar candidate selection no longer triggers QuickLook in the Quick Search panel • Custom Quick Scopes: manage the Folder dropdown under Settings → Index → Quick Scopes • Excluded Names settings now persist correctly across launches • Toolbar refinements: clearer labels and tooltips for the Folder / Disk dropdowns; Disk hides automatically when no external drives are connected • Help tooltip on the Content search toggle • Completed Chinese localization across the app

本次更新修复了两个影响使用的重要问题，并优化了若干体验细节： • 快速搜索支持中文输入法选词 此前在快速搜索中输入拼音时，按空格会误触发文件预览，导致无法选词。 现在空格会正常交给输入法选词；用上下方向键选中某个结果后，再按空格才会预览。 • 修复兑换码/订阅未生效的问题 使用 App Store 兑换码后应用有时不会解锁，即使重启也无法恢复。现在兑换、恢复购买会主动与 App Store 同步，购买/兑换后立即解锁； 退款或订阅到期也会同步收回权限。 「恢复购买」按钮在处理时会显示进度，并在找不到购买记录时给出清晰提示。 • 其他优化 - 默认索引并监控 iCloud 云盘 - 「文件夹」下拉支持自定义快捷范围（Quick Scopes） - 工具栏术语调整（Scope→文件夹、Volume→磁盘），无外接磁盘时自动隐藏「磁盘」

This major release adds full search support for external drives and fixes a long-standing issue where custom index folders were lost after restarting the app. External Disk Search • USB and Thunderbolt drives are detected automatically — authorize once and the drive is indexed in the background • Local and external files appear together; the toolbar lets you switch between All, Local Only, and a specific drive • Indexes are kept when a drive is unplugged and incrementally refreshed when it returns • Renamed or remounted drives are recognized and the index is migrated automatically • Settings › Index now has an External Disks section for per-drive rescan and remove Fixes • Custom index folders now persist across app restarts. If you lost folders in an earlier version, please re-add them in Settings › Index — they will stick from now on.• External-drive search is available immediately on launch instead of waiting for the home scan to finish • Volume list and file counts in Settings load faster and update more smoothly • Default exclusions extended to common dev caches: .docker, .npm, .cargo, .gradle, .cocoapods Other • "Choose Folder..." in the filter toolbar now persists across restarts • Stability improvements around drive mount, unmount, and authorization

What's New in 1.2.0 - Help Menu: Added "AnySearch Documentation" to the Help menu (⌘?) for quick access to the official docs. Automatically opens in your system language (English/Chinese). - Documentation Link in Settings: A "Documentation" link is now available in Settings → About alongside Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. - Dynamic Version Display: The About tab now shows the actual app version dynamically. - Website Fixes: Fixed an issue where navigating to documentation pages could incorrectly redirect through port 8080. Updated free tier descriptionto reflect 100 searchesper launch.

You can now search inside your documents, not just by filename. AnySearch indexes the text content of PDF, Markdown, Word (.docx/.doc), Excel (.xlsx), and PowerPoint (.pptx) files, and returns results with highlighted snippets showing where your query matched.

What's New in 1.0.8 - Browse files instantly by selecting a scope or filter — no search text required. Combine scope with extension, size, date, and file type filters to narrow results on the fly. - Fixed an intermittent black screen that could occur when closing the main window via the close button.

Added QuickLook preview support. Select a file from search results and press spacebar to instantly preview it, just like in Finder. Press spacebar again or Escape to close the preview. Navigate with arrow keys while the preview is open to browse through files. Works in both the main window and Quick Search panel.

Show 20 recently modified files when the app launches, so you see useful content right away instead of an empty screen. Recent files appear in both the main window and Quick Search panel, sorted by most recent first. Hidden directories and folders are excluded.

What's New in Version 1.0.5 - Brand new app icon with a fresh, modern design

⏺ What's New in Version 1.0.4 Quick Search — Search from Anywhere Introducing Quick Search, a Spotlight-style floating search panel you can summon from any app, any screen, any time. - Press Option+Shift+Space to instantly open the search panel — no need to switch to AnySearch first - Clean, minimal interface centered at the top of your screen - Results appear as you type with keyboard navigation (↑↓ to browse, Enter to open, ⌘Enter to reveal in Finder) - Right-click any result for the full set of actions: Open, Show in Finder, Open With, Copy File/Path/Name - Panel dismisses with Escape, clicking outside, or pressing the shortcut again — focus returns to your previous app automatically - Customize the shortcut in Settings → General → Quick Search Shortcut

What's New in Version 1.0.3 - Added CMD+F keyboard shortcut to quickly focus the search bar - Fixed sorting by Size and Modified columns - Improved theme switching to apply instantly across all windows - Changed case sensitivity option to a dropdown selector - Fixed hotkey display for non-Latin keyboard layouts - Search time now displays in seconds for consistency