Finder shows you a list of filenames. Nook shows you your stuff: big, clear thumbnails for everything, a search that understands plain English, and a quick way to clear out what you don’t need.
Free · macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel · ~3 MB · How to open it the first time
No folders to dig through and no syntax to learn. Nook shows exactly how it understood you — as chips you can remove.
Each one is a shortcut away.
Understands type, date, size, folder and where a file came from. Matches names and the text inside images.
Nook reads your screenshots on-device with Apple’s Vision. Search that Wi-Fi password, or copy the text from several images at once.
Every download grouped by source: Gmail, Google Drive, ChatGPT, Slack, WhatsApp, GitHub or any website.
Identical files by SHA-256 fingerprint, plus look-alike photos (bursts, edits, HEIC/JPEG pairs). Nook picks the copy to keep.
Cards for old installers, forgotten downloads, old screenshots, big old videos and apps you don’t use any more.
A Spotlight-style panel from any app. ↩ opens, ⌘↩ shows in Nook, ⌥↩ shows in Finder.
Colourful and friendly, or quiet black, white and grey. Switch any time from the toolbar.
Your ten newest downloads with thumbnails, one click away. Drag one straight into Mail, Slack or Figma.
Real Quick Look with Space, an Inspector with camera and download details, and songs that play right in the toolbar.
Nook shows the same files, and “Show in Finder” is always one click away.
| Everyday job | Nook | Finder |
|---|---|---|
| Seeing what you have | Images, videos, music, documents, archives and apps, each on its own shelf | Folder by folder |
| Searching in plain English | “pdfs from last week” becomes filters you can change | Add search rules one at a time |
| Text inside screenshots | Searchable, copy text from several images at once | One image at a time in Preview |
| Where a download came from | Grouped by source: Gmail, Slack, ChatGPT, any website | A “Where from” line in Get Info |
| Duplicate files | Identical files and look-alike photos, with the space you’ll get back | Nothing built in |
| Freeing up space | Clean Up cards next to your files | In System Settings |
| Quick Search, from any app | ⇧⌘Space | Grid / List | ⌘1 ⌘2 |
| Search in Nook | ⌘F | Bigger / smaller cards | ⌘+ ⌘− |
| Downloaded From | ⇧⌘J | Quick Look | Space |
| Copy text from images | ⇧⌘C | Switch look | ⌃⌘T |
| Duplicates | ⇧⌘D | Inspector | ⌘I |
| Clean Up | ⇧⌘K | Rescan | ⌘R |
No, it sits next to it. Nook shows the same files in a friendlier way, and “Show in Finder” is always one click away.
Never. Indexing, text recognition and duplicate detection happen on your Mac. The only network request is a small update check.
Nothing is deleted outright. Clean Up and Duplicates move files to the Trash, so you can always put them back. iCloud-only files are skipped, so nothing gets downloaded behind your back.
macOS asks before any app can read those folders. Nook needs them to show your files. Click Allow once for each.
Nook is distributed directly from this website instead of the App Store, so macOS asks you to confirm the first time. Here’s how to open it — it takes a few seconds.
macOS 14 Sonoma and later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Give your files a home that’s nice to look at and easy to search.