Espresso searches every disk on your Mac as you type: the startup disk, the external ones, and the ones sitting in a drawer. Native, private, and free for personal use.
Espresso for Mac · measured
Measured on a MacBook Air M2, 8 GB, macOS 26.3.1, release build, 15 October 2026. Search: median of 15 runs on a saved index of 1,856,094 items. First index without Full Disk Access.
Eject a drive and it moves to Offline Disks, index and all. Search it, browse it, get info on its files, then plug it in and Espresso catches up with what changed.
Free keeps your two most recently connected offline disks searchable; the rest wait, indexed and safe. Pro searches all of them and remembers where each one is kept.
The full search language is free, in the spirit of Everything on Windows: AND, OR, NOT, wildcards, regular expressions, sizes, dates, kinds, folders, duplicates. Save the searches you repeat, turn them into macros, switch kinds with ⌘1–⌘9.
<bianchi|northwind>either clientext:pdfPDFs onlydm:2026modified this year!paidnot the paid ones
Espresso Pro
Ask the Barista turns plain words into filters (kinds, dates, sizes, places, cameras) and finds the rest by meaning. In English, Italian and about a hundred other languages.
Needs Apple silicon and macOS 15. The model (585 MB) downloads once, when you ask for it.
Press ⌥ Space in any app and the Shot drops in. Type, press Return to open, ⌘ Return to see it in Finder.
Espresso Pro
$ espresso 'invoice ext:pdf dm:lastmonth'
/Volumes/Work SSD/Clients/Atelier Rossi/Invoices/Invoice 2026-09 Atelier.pdf
/Volumes/Work SSD/Clients/Bianchi Studio/Invoices/Invoice 2026-09 Bianchi.pdf
/Volumes/Work SSD/Clients/Lumen Press/Invoices/Invoice 2026-09 Lumen.pdf
/Volumes/Work SSD/Clients/Northwind Coffee/Invoices/Invoice 2026-09 Northwind.pdf
$ espresso ask "videos bigger than 1 GB"
espresso: searching video: size:>1gb
/Volumes/Work SSD/Video/Edits/Lisbon Reel 4K.mov
/Volumes/Work SSD/Video/Edits/Wedding Film Final.mov
/Volumes/Photos 2019/2019/06 Wedding/Wedding Film.mov
Also in Pro: text inside documents and what photos show (content:, looks:),
CSV export, scheduled updates for network shares, and a set of coffee app icons.
No subscription, no account. Start free; try every Pro feature for 14 days from inside the app, with just an email.
€0forever
For personal, non-commercial use. Not a demo.
€29 one payment
Every update of Espresso, on up to 3 of your Macs. Needed for use at work.
The trial needs no card and ends by itself: Espresso goes back to Free and keeps everything you set up. Buy from Espresso › Settings › Espresso Pro whenever you’re ready.
If you connect an AI assistant over MCP, the names and paths it searches are sent to that assistant’s provider. Read the privacy policy.
Spotlight searches contents and metadata and ranks a handful of results for you. Espresso searches the names and paths of every file, hidden and system files included, shows everything that matches in a sortable list that updates as you type, takes precise filters and regular expressions, and keeps disconnected disks searchable.
Indexing a disk is a short burst of work, once: well under a minute for a typical startup disk. After that Espresso only follows changes as they happen, and does nothing when it’s closed.
To see the folders macOS protects (Mail, Messages, other apps’ data). Without it Espresso still indexes everything else; you can grant it later in System Settings.
Free is for personal, non-commercial use. Using Espresso for work needs Pro: one payment, up to 3 Macs of the same person.
Yes, on macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon and Intel. Ask the Barista is the exception: it needs Apple silicon and macOS 15.
Anything macOS can mount: APFS, HFS+, exFAT, FAT32, NTFS (read-only) and more, plus network shares if you turn them on.
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