Homy

Homy is a Mac file manager application that displays images, videos, music, documents, and apps as clear thumbnails with natural-language search.

Homy is a Mac app that acts as an alternative to Finder, organizing your files into shelves for images, videos, music, documents, archives, and apps. It features natural-language search that understands type, date, size, and source, matching filenames, tags, and text inside files. Using Apple's Vision framework and SHA-256 fingerprints, it also searches text within screenshots and identifies duplicate files and look-alike photos. The application runs entirely on-device, keeping your files private on your Mac without cloud uploads. It is built natively in SwiftUI for macOS 14 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Homy at a glance

Best for: Designer, Software engineer, Founder
Runs on: macOS
Pricing: $9 for the first 200 customers, then $29; one-time payment with no subscription
Released: October 2026
Category: AI productivity tool
Website: tryhomy.app

Key features

Natural-language file search
Text recognition in screenshots and photos
Duplicate and look-alike photo detection
Download grouping by source application
Storage cleanup for old installers and downloads
Built-in music player and quick file preview
Grid and list view layout options

Use it for

Finding documents using conversational search terms
Searching for specific words inside screenshots
Removing duplicate files and look-alike photos to free up storage
Locating downloaded files by their original source app

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