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 9.1

New and updated features

Celebrating 30 years of NeoFinder (and CDFinder, as it once was called).
Catalog VisionaryAI Tagger metadata, with captions, audio transcriptions, tags.
Catalog and edit the giant "3FR" RAW files created by the new Hasselblad "X2D II 100C" camera.
Catalog Thumbnails of Affinity ".af" files.
Catalog custom metadata written by the XiNET WebNative DAM.
Catalog BRAW files created by the Panasonic LUMIX S1II, S1IIE, S1RII, Leica SL3-S, Sony FX3, und Sony FX30 cameras
Catalog Nikon R3D video files (these are actually NEV format files, but named .r3d, which confuses the RED software
massively).
Adds the macOS Sharing Menu to share files with Mail, Messages, AirDrop, or others.
Catalog entire text content of all pages in PDF files, upon request.
Image Capture can create Unique Photo ID for imported files.
Image Capture can rename imported files.
Image Capture has a better way to uniquely identify chip cards, to remember which files are new on each separate card.
Barcode scanning of Audio-CDs now works with box sets with multiple disks. NeoFinder will create a separate catalog for
each disk.
Duplicate the current Group in QuickTags and QuickPersons.
Delete items from the "Recently Used" Group in both QuickTags and QuickPersons.
Increase and decrease the icon display size in the Icon View using the Control-Plus and Control-Minus hotkey.
Updated LibRAW library to latest version.
Updated BlackMagic RAW framework to latest version.
Updated RED framework to latest version.
Updated EXIFTool to latest version.

Fixes

Works around a massive performance problem of Apples MapView in macOS 26 "Tahoe", where displaying more than a few
hundred GPS pins is painfully slow.
Works around a new bug in macOS 26 "Tahoe" where the page sizes for the Photo Contact Sheet were wrong if no printer was
created in the System Settings.
"Open With" works faster and better if more than a few hundred files are selected in macOS 26 "Tahoe".
Editing the XMP Date will now immediately show the new value in all lists.
Works around problems created by illegally formed metadata stored in video files created by RayBan video glasses.
Image Capture: Improved behaviour handling duplicate files placed in folders structures.
Improves behaviour using the "belongs to" XMP metadata in sidecar files written by certain other applications.
Improves behaviour when scanning for Audio-CD barcodes, and a disk is not found in the MusicBrainz database.
Fixes a problem in which the Web Gallery options window sometimes didn't show.
Immediately displays all new XMP Location field values in all content views after they are edited in the Inspector.
Addresses numerous minor issues.
NeoFinder 9.1 requires Mac OS X 10.15 "Catalina" or newer, including macOS 26 "Tahoe", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, M3, or
M4.

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4.2

(113 Reviews of NeoFinder)

Comments
User Ratings

Derekcurrie

Dec 19 2024

8.7.1

5.0

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.

Rjmorita

Mar 11 2022

0.0

I use CloudMounter so I can use Dropbox as an external drive and store all my photographs on it. Accessing the photographs is occasionally a problem when my Internet connection is slow. I use NewFinder to store the catalog locally so I will have instant access to my entire album. It works very well.

Dec 16 2021

7.8.1

Version: 7.8.1

Version 8.0 has been released. The upgrade cost is $25.99 for the single user license. Details can be found here: https://www.cdfinder.de/en/news.html