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Offline Files

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Press Kit

Features

Offline Files is a macOS app for anyone who works with multiple external drives. It indexes your volumes locally and makes every file searchable, even when the drive is disconnected.

Plug in a drive once and Offline Files scans its entire contents. Filenames, paths, sizes, creation and modification dates are all stored on your Mac. From that point on, you can search and browse everything without reconnecting. The app also saves free space info from the last sync, so you always know which drive still has room.

Built for photographers, editors, filmmakers, and anyone else whose projects live across too many hard drives. No more guessing which drive has the file you need. Search first, plug in second.

Smart Indexing

Automatically scans and indexes your drives, including external volumes.

Offline Search

Find files on disconnected drives. No cable required.

Duplicate Detection

Spot duplicate files and clean up storage faster.

Volume Groups

Organize drives into logical groups by project, client, or year.

Drive Overview

See all indexed drives with status and last sync information.

Favorites & Notes

Bookmark important files and add notes to any volume.

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Details

PlatformMacOS 15.6 (Sequoia) or later
ProcessorApple Silicon & Intel
SubscriptionNone
LanguageEnglish
Data Storage100% local, on your Mac
File ContentsNot stored. Metadata only (names, paths, sizes, dates).
OriginsBerlin – Germany

About the Developer

Paul Kothe is an editor, cameraman, and photographer based in Berlin. He works across multi media, music videos, brand films, and artist portraits. Offline Files is his first app, built out of a real problem in his own daily workflow: too many drives, no overview.

About the Developer

Press

Some Press Voices

ifun.de

ifun.de

Offline Files: Metadatensuche für externe Laufwerke

Der Berliner Kameramann Paul Kothe hat aus der Not eine Tugend gemacht. Die Mac-Anwendung Offline Files soll ihm dabei helfen, den Überblick über seine Laufwerke zu behalten. Der Inhalt der mit der App indexierten Festplatten lässt sich auch dann durchsuchen, wenn sie nicht mit dem Mac verbunden sind.

2026-02-13

Newsshooter

Newsshooter

Offline Files– macOS app that indexes external drives

Offline Files is a small macOS app that indexes external drives once and keeps the metadata locally, so you can search across all your volumes even when the drives are unplugged. The concept is simple: search first, plug in second.

2026-02-25

PetaPixel

PetaPixel

This Mac App Lets You Find Photos No Matter Which Drive They’re On

As photographers know all too well, image libraries can be a lot to keep track of. Between internal storage and external drives, sometimes many of them, finding exactly the right photo or folder can be very frustrating. Photographer and cinematographer Paul Kothe agrees, so he built an app to solve the problem once and for all.

2026-02-27

Apfelpatient

Apfelpatient

Wo liegt die Datei? Offline Files kennt die Antwort sofort

xterne Festplatten sind fester Bestandteil vieler Arbeitsumgebungen. Projekte, Archive, Rohmaterial oder Backups verteilen sich häufig auf mehrere Laufwerke. Sobald ein Datenträger nicht angeschlossen ist, lässt sich jedoch nur schwer nachvollziehen, welche Dateien sich darauf befinden. Genau hier setzt Offline Files an.

Appgefahren

Appgefahren

Offline Files: Mit dieser App durchsucht ihr externe Festplatten

Für alle, die regelmäßig mit externen Festplatten arbeiten, ist die Suche nach bestimmten Dateien oft mit Aufwand verbunden. Die macOS-App Offline Files (App-Store-Link) bietet hier eine praktische Lösung: Sie indexiert die Metadaten externer Laufwerke lokal und macht sie durchsuchbar – selbst wenn die Platten nicht angeschlossen sind.

2026-03-03

Stop guessing. Start finding.

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