Your Mac, mapped.
Peekaboo is a Finder alternative for Mac. It lays out every file you own as one calm map, finds anything you describe in plain English, and frees space with an undo for every cleanup.
Find anything.
Press ⌘F and type what you remember. Peekaboo shows how it read you as chips you can fix.
Parsed on your Mac by plain code. No AI service, nothing sent anywhere.
Finder, or Peekaboo?
Finder is fine for opening a folder. These are the jobs it leaves to you.
| The job | Peekaboo | Finder |
|---|---|---|
| Seeing what you have | Images, videos, music, documents, archives and apps, each on its own shelf with totals | Finder: Folder by folder, the way you once filed things |
| Searching in plain English | Type “pdfs from last week” and get editable filter chips | Finder: Add search rules one dropdown at a time |
| Text inside screenshots | Searchable, and copy text from many images at once | Finder: Copy from one image at a time in Preview |
| Where a download came from | Every download grouped by source: Gmail, Slack, ChatGPT, any site | Finder: A “Where from” line in Get Info, one file at a time |
| Duplicate files | Identical files and look-alike photos, with the space you’ll get back | Finder: Nothing built in |
| Seeing where your space went | Space Map: an interactive map of every category and folder | Finder: A single bar in System Settings |
| Undoing a cleanup | Every cleanup is a session. Put it all back in one click | Finder: Put Back, one file at a time, from the Trash |
| Searching from any app | Quick Search with ⌥Space, plain English included | Finder: Spotlight, filenames and syntax |
Compared with Finder in macOS 15. Peekaboo shows the same files, and “Show in Finder” is always one click away, so you can keep using both.
Every way a file gets lost, charted.
A name you can’t remember. A screenshot you can’t find. A download from somewhere. A copy of a copy.
- ⌘F
Search the way you’d say it.
Type what you remember. Peekaboo turns it into filters you can see and edit: kind, date, size, source and folder. No syntax, no surprises.
- Matches names, tags and the text inside files
- “Understood as …” shows exactly how it read you
- Save any search to the sidebar; it stays live
- ⇧⌘C
Find the words inside your screenshots.
Peekaboo reads the text in your screenshots, photos and PDFs on your Mac with Apple’s Vision framework. The Wi-Fi password, the tracking number, that quote: just search it.
- Copy text from one image or fifty at once
- Hover any image for Copy Text
- Runs entirely on-device
- ⇧⌘J
Every download, grouped by where it came from.
Gmail attachments, ChatGPT exports, Canva designs, Slack files. Peekaboo reads macOS’s own “Where from” data and sorts 900 downloads into a dozen tidy sources.
- Gmail, Drive, ChatGPT, Canva, X, Slack, WhatsApp, GitHub
- Any website, with its own badge
- Newest ten in the menu bar
- ⇧⌘D
Copies of copies, found in seconds.
Exact duplicates are matched by SHA-256, look-alike photos by Apple Vision. Peekaboo keeps the best copy and tells you exactly how much space the rest are worth.
- Size-bucketed first, so scans are fast
- Look-alike photos, not just identical bytes
- Pick which copy to keep, or let Peekaboo choose
- ⇧⌘K
Reclaim space. Lose nothing.
Forgotten downloads, old installers, stale screenshots, big old videos and apps you never open, each with a size you can act on. Everything goes to the Trash, never straight to deletion.
- Review before anything moves
- iCloud-only files are skipped, never downloaded
- Optional rules, off until you turn them on
Reclaim space.
A map of your disk you can zoom into, and an undo for every cleanup. Two things only Peekaboo does.
Space Map
⇧⌘MMacintosh HD
30.19 GB
- Apps
- Videos
- Images
- Documents
- Archives
- Music
Choose a region to zoom in. Esc or the back button zooms out.
Clean Up
⇧⌘KReady to reclaim
GB
- Big old screen recordings4.8 GB
- Apps unused for a year2.4 GB
- Old installers (.dmg, .pkg)0.4 GB
Undo Cleanup
- Yesterday, 18:05: Forgotten downloads1,223 files, 4.2 GB
- Mon, 09:17: Duplicates93 files, 2.1 GB
Every cleanup is a session in the Trash. Undo puts each file back where it was.
Two looks, day or night.
Playful marks each kind of file with its colour from the legend. Minimal draws everything in ink. Switch with ⌃⌘T.
From anywhere, in one keystroke.
Search without opening Peekaboo. Grab today’s downloads from the menu bar.
Quick Search
⌥SpaceA Spotlight-style panel that speaks plain English and reads text in images. Pick your own shortcut.
- Screenshot 2026-10-24 at 9.41.22.png~/DesktopOct 24
- Screenshot 2026-10-23 at 16.02.10.png~/DesktopOct 23
- pricing-page-v3.png~/Documents/DesignOct 22
- Screenshot 2026-10-21 at 11.15.48.png~/DownloadsOct 21
- boarding-pass.png~/DownloadsOct 20
Menu bar
Your ten newest downloads with thumbnails. Drag one straight into Mail, Slack or Figma.
- Client handoff10 min ago
- IMG_4021.HEIC1 hr ago, 2.4 MB
- Q3-board-deck-FINAL-v7.pdf3 hr ago, 13.7 MB
- Invoice-March.pdf5 hr ago, 180 KB
- brand-assets.zipYesterday, 42 MB
- demo_30s.mp4Yesterday, 3.5 MB
And the rest.
Twelve smaller things you’ll use every day.
- Command palette⌘K
- Every action, file and folder, two keystrokes away.
- Instant index
- Live FSEvents updates. No Refresh button, ever.
- Bulk rename
- Patterns, find and replace, numbering and dates, with a live preview.
- Quick LookSpace
- The real macOS Quick Look. Arrow keys step through files.
- Inspector⌘I
- Preview, dimensions, duration, camera EXIF and download source.
- Grid or list⌘1
- Resize cards with a slider. Sort by name, date, size or kind.
- Saved searches
- “Screenshots over 5 MB” lives in your sidebar and stays current.
- Drag anywhere
- Drag one file or twenty into Mail, Slack or Figma.
- Mini player⌥⌘P
- Double-click a song and it plays in the toolbar.
- Shortcuts & Siri
- Find Files, Get Latest Download and Search in Peekaboo actions.
- Right-click everything
- Open With, Show in Finder, Pin, Copy Path, Rename, Trash.
- Pinned folders
- Keep the folders you live in one click from anywhere.
Quick with a mouse. Quicker without.
Every view has a shortcut. You can rebind Quick Search in Settings.
Find
- Quick Search, from any app
- ⌥Space
- Search in Peekaboo
- ⌘F
- Command palette
- ⌘K
- Downloaded From
- ⇧⌘J
- Copy text from images
- ⇧⌘C
View
- Grid / List
- ⌘1
- Bigger / smaller cards
- ⌘+
- Quick Look
- Space
- Inspector
- ⌘I
- Playful / Minimal
- ⌃⌘T
Tidy
- Duplicates
- ⇧⌘D
- Clean Up
- ⇧⌘K
- Space Map
- ⇧⌘M
- Undo last cleanup
- ⌘Z
- Play / pause music
- ⌥⌘P
Your files never leave your Mac.
Peekaboo is a native Mac app, about 6 MB. No account, nothing to sign in to.
Your files stay put
Search, text recognition and duplicate detection run on your Mac with Apple’s own frameworks. No file, name or search ever leaves it.
Nothing is deleted outright
Every cleanup goes to the Trash and can be put back from one list. iCloud-only files are never downloaded to be scanned.
Usage counts you can switch off
Once a day the app sends anonymous counts, like which features were used. Never file names or contents. One switch in Settings stops it.
- Requires
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Runs on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Download
- About 6 MB, native SwiftUI
- Text recognition
- Apple Vision, on your Mac
- Duplicates
- SHA-256 and Vision feature prints, on your Mac
- Network
- License, updates, anonymous usage counts (can be turned off)
- Deleting
- Always to the Trash, never permanent
- Security
- Signed and notarized by Apple
Pay once. Keep it.
Free for 14 days. Then one price, no subscription.
Peekaboo
- Launch price$9.99 until Nov 19
- Early price$14.99 until Dec 9
- Then$24.99
Not sure yet? Start the free trial
Included
- Every feature, nothing locked
- A lifetime license for one Mac
- Updates included
- License key by email, activate in one click
- Move it to a new Mac yourself, up to 3 times in 30 days
- No subscription, no account
Questions, answered.
Something else? Email support@getpeekaboo.app
No, it works alongside it. Peekaboo is a faster way to see, search and tidy your files, and “Show in Finder” is always one click away.
No. Search, text recognition and duplicate detection all run on your Mac. There’s no account and no cloud. The only network calls are the license check and the update check.
Only when you choose to, and only by moving them to the Trash. Every cleanup is recorded as a session, so you can put an entire cleanup back with one click from the Undo timeline.
It uses the same index, so it’s just as fast. The difference is that you type the way you talk (“zips bigger than 1 GB older than 6 months”) and Peekaboo shows the filters it heard as chips you can fix. The parser is plain code on your Mac, not an AI service, so it’s instant and private, and occasionally it’ll misread you. That’s why the chips are editable.
An interactive map of your disk. Every category and folder is sized by how much space it uses. Click to drill in, and send anything you don’t need to the Trash right from the map.
Download Peekaboo and use every feature for 14 days, no account and no card. When the trial ends, buy a license to keep going; your library and settings stay as they are.
No. You pay once and keep it. A license is $24.99 one-time for one Mac, yours for good, with updates included.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon and Intel. The app is about 6 MB.
macOS asks you to approve access to Desktop, Documents and Downloads. Peekaboo needs it to show and search the files inside them. Nothing leaves your Mac.
It isn’t a full Finder replacement: no column view, no network drives or servers yet, and no editing of Finder tags. It doesn’t search files that live only in iCloud (on purpose, so nothing downloads). And it won’t delete anything permanently, ever.
The first index of a typical home folder takes a minute or two. After that Peekaboo listens to file-system events, so there’s no background rescanning. Text recognition runs at low priority in the background.
Yes. Choose “Deactivate this Mac” in Settings, then activate on the new one with the same key.
Map your Mac.
Free for 14 days. Then $24.99, once.
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon and Intel, 6 MB.