NeoFinder overview

NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. It catalogs and manages all your data, so you stay in control of your data archive or disk library. With extensive metadata support, you can find your files quickly.

Features:

Catalog: any hard disk, SSD, Server Volume, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, data folder, CD-R, DVD-R, Blu-Ray, iPod, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, FTP-Server, and more
Power: Handle really large amounts of data
Organize: Add Keywords, Ratings, Descriptions, and more in the XMP editor for photos and videos, even multiple files at once
Photo Previews: Create beautiful thumbnails for many photo and image formats, such as JPG, TIFF, EPS, RAW, PDF, PSD, Affinity Photo, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, Adobe Indesign, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA
Photo Meta Data: XMP (used by Adobe Bridge), EXIF and IPTC meta data (including GPS geotags), and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo details
Audio Previews: Let NeoFinder create short sound snippets of your music in the catalog
Audio Meta Data: MP3, AAC (iTunes), FLAC (Lossless), ALAC (Apple Lossless), and AIFF meta data: author, album, title, composer, lyrics, cover art, track number, duration, bit rate, genre, year, comment. Even catalogs whole Audio-CDs, and Apple iPhone ringtone files!
Movie metadata: get thumbnails, the dimension, duration, codec and frame rate out of movie files, supporting AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, MPG, MKV, M4V, and others
Geotagging: NeoFinder catalogs and displays GPS EXIF tags of photos, and has direct links to Google Earth, Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps and MapQuest. NeoFinder can even search for photos that were taken near any location (GeoFinder), and export GPS data to KMZ files
Networkable: Share your NeoFinder database in your entire workgroup on a server (requires a Business License)
Cross-platform: With abeMeda (was CDWinder), you can use one database for both worlds!
Workflow Integration: Automatically catalog all discs burned by Roxio Toast; Drag any image directly from NeoFinder into applications like Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, Apple Pages, Microsoft Office; integrate NeoFinder into FileMaker Pro databases, and much more
Find it! Best Find functions, and of course offline browsing of all your volumes - even in multiple windows, if you want to
Spotlight Integration: Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside NeoFinder
Import catalogs: These formats are supported: FileFinder, DiskCatalogMaker, Disk Recall, DiskWizard, Iomega FindIt, Portents DiskTracker (both 1.x and 2.x!), Catalogue, CatFinder, "Neometric" Catalog, DiskLibrary, Media Catalog, DiskCatalogMaker (Text export), TOLIS Group BRU, Cache-A XML files, WhereIsIt (Windows), SuperCat for Windows (".idx" database files), Delicious Library XML, Broken Cross Disk Manager (Windows), and Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows) catalog or export files, and iView MediaPro and Microsoft Expression Media XML files
Fast and really easy to use, see screenshots
Export catalog data to text, XML, and web galleries
Insight: Look inside archive files: ZIP, TAR, .rar, StuffIt (.sit and even .sitx), and others, including Disk Image contents
International: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch user interface, all in one application
Unicode compatible: Use NeoFinder to catalog file names and metadata of any language
AppleScript: Integrate NeoFinder with FileMaker Pro or any other application, or extend the abilities of NeoFinder
Extend your NeoFinder catalog database by using five custom fields for any content you need
FileCheck: Only NeoFinder can generate an industrial strength MD5 checksum for every file being cataloged
AutoMount: NeoFinder automatically mounts every server volume you have cataloged or updated for you, if needed! And you can of course also ask NeoFinder to mount the volume for you at any time, using the context menu
QuickLook: Open a QuickLook window for any selected online file(s) right from inside NeoFinder!
Cross-Grade: you already bought a different disk cataloger or media asset manager application, ask us for a good offer!
Free email support
Languages: User Interface in eight languages, all in one application: English, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch

What's new in version 9.3

New and updated features

Find Similar Photos based on the motif, with absolutely amazing results!
Ingest entire media folders: Copies all files to clearly defined folder structures, renames them, adds metadata, and catalogs them.
Multi-line Annotations for Icon View and Photo Contact Sheets: Up to five lines for each Annotation.
Bookmarks for files can be exported, and shared with other Macs running NeoFinder.
Catalog and edit three additional XMP fields: Copyright URL, Digital Source, and Data Mining. Also available with AppleScript and exporting.
XMP Presets support these three XMP fields, too.
Date values show the weekday in the Inspector and elsewhere.
Find weekdays in the Find Editor.
Generate a Photo Contact Sheet from just the currently selected photos.
Catalogs photos about 25% faster than before.
Catalogs the "Approval" value of the Hasselblad Photos v4 software, and displays it as a color label.
Catalogs and displays ID3 disk number and album artist metadata for songs.
Catalogs the different "genre" values of .m4a files created by the latest "Apple Music.app".
Catalog the EXIF shutter count of Nikon cameras.
Display Filter: Use Camera Maker and Camera Model for filtering.
Find Editor: Search for folder depths in the "Path" section.
Inspector: Additional search options for XMP / IPTC fields, in the Label menus.
List View: Column for the Color Profile name.
Image Capture: More folder structure options: "2025/2025-11/2025-11-15" and "2025".
Open and close the SMART FOLDERS and ALBUMS sections in LIBRARY with a simple click on their title.
Light Table: Display Adobe Photoshop .psd files.
Icon View: Display the XMP City, State and Country as annotations.
Multi Renamer: Use the EXIF capture date milliseconds, for sports or event photography.
Undo is supported when removing keywords from the Controlled Vocabulary.
Add to Target Album can be undone.
Renaming and deleting Persons in the Person list window can be undone.
Changing the EXIF Capture Date will now re-sort the current view if that is sorted by the EXIF Capture Date.
Using QuickFind with multiple words now searches a lot faster than before.
Uses the latest official R3D frameworks for cataloging NEV and RED files.

Fixes

The "gear" button for the commands in the Labels Preferences window is always visible in macOS "dark mode".
Improves behavior of the Update Settings window on 13" Macs with a small screen. All buttons are now reachable there, too.
The global menu bar find feature works if the search text contains "&".
Fixes a problem when renaming imported files in Image Capture with certain parameter combinations.
Fixes a problem where new keywords added with QuickTags were not always added to the Recent Items list.
Fixes a problem in certain macOS 12, macOS 13, macOS 26, and macOS 27 versions, where cataloging of ExFAT volumes could silently fail due to invalid volume creation date values returned by the faulty Apples ExFAT driver.
Fixes a problem using the "!!" parameter in the Find Editor in certain situations.
Fixes a problem cataloging certain malformed .mkv files using ffmpeg.
Fixes a problem when moving files in Catalogs didn't move the XMP sidecar files if these were not yet contained in the Catalog.
Fixes a problem when showing the contents of a Smart Folder contained items of a Catalog that was being Updated. If that happens, the list of Found Items will now be cleared to prevent "ghost" items.
Fixes a problem with AppleScript when the contents of an updated Catalog could still show some old items.
Works around a serious bug in macOS 26 and macOS 27, where the beautiful application icon of NeoFinder was incorrectly displayed in an ugly squircle jail by Apple.
Addresses numerous minor issues.
NeoFinder 9.3 requires Mac OS X 10.15 "Catalina" or newer, including macOS 26 "Tahoe", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, or M6
NeoFinder 9.3 is the last version to support macOS 10.15 "Catalina".
NeoFinder is proudly developed by a human being, no "AI" is used in the coding of the software.

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4.2

(115 Reviews of NeoFinder)

Comments
User Ratings

Derekcurrie

Mar 3, 2026

9.2

5.0

Version: 9.2

v9.x upgrade pricing: $25.99. This applies to "existing and valid CDFinder, NeoFinder 8.x, 7.x, or 6.x license of the same number of users (or for a cross-grade, a valid license of the other product)." See the Dev site for details.

Mikael-B

Jan 24, 2026

9.1

0.0

Version: 9.1

Some people have been abusing the "Similar apps" system to downvote very much similar file catalog software like DiskTracker (No Apple Silicon version), Tri-CATALOG (No Apple Silicon version), DiskCatalogMaker (Apple Silicon version) and SimpleImage (No Apple Silicon version). There's also a lot of upvoted apps that does not catalogue anything, like media viewer/editors or file transfer/copy utilities. If only those people could quit acting dishonestly and get a clue!

Dec 19, 2024

8.7.1

Version: 8.7.1

v8.8 is out.

milesepit

Aug 2, 2022

8.1.2

3.0

Version: 8.1.2

It's a good app, but it needs some tweaking. As far as the interface is concerned, it's fine.

Joy-L

Mar 30, 2022

8.1

Version: 8.1

A fantastic program which I've used and loved it since 2006. NeoFinder catalogs your drives, media, and the contents of disk images, ZIP files, etc. Now you can search the catalog to find what you want, discover where it is, and get information about disks, files, folders, and media files -- without needing to mount or open the item you're searching. Search is fast and powerful. NeoFinder is super useful if you've got + lots of files + lots of disks + removable media + unmounted virtual disks + disk images + archives (ZIP, Stuffit, etc.) + disconnected backup drives + remote backups Every night, my backup system Carbon Copy Clones my boot drive to a second hard drive. Every week, that hard drive gets swapped for another. Right before the swap, I use NeoFinder to catalog my backup disk, so I know exactly which files, folders, versions are on which backup disk without needing to mount the drives (or bring them back onsite). It's magic! NeoFinder is powerful, easy to use, and rock solid reliable. I've used it on a job that involved cataloging 16 million files on an 8TB HD, then repeatedly updated the catalog. It took a little while, but NeoFinder did the catalogs and updates without a hiccup. Superb programming, excellent user interface, rock-solid reliability, and first-rate documentation and support make this program a real winner.