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 9.2

New and updated features

Import native WinCatalog database files (".w3cat" file name suffix)
Display and edit custom folder items for Catalog Folders in the Neofinder Library
Catalog contents of .tgz compressed Tar archives ("tarball" format)
Import metadata presets directly from Adobe Products
Display Filter has a menu to select which field is being used: name, comment, persons, keywords, caption, or location
Display Filter allows "##" for "empty field" and "@@" for "not empty field"
Display Filter can search for identical terms ("==") and Not identical terms ("!=")
"Invert Selection" menu command for all content view styles
Volume Media type can now be "Ssd"
When cataloging Ssd disks, or folders on Ssd disks, the media type will be set to "Ssd"
Edit the text content excerpt for a file in a catalog, using the Inspector
Find Editor supports "==" and "!=" prefix values for all Xmp search parameters, to search for the exact field content, or different field content
Find Editor has path related parameters to search for exact folder names, "folder name begins with" and "folder name ends with" options
Editing the Filter in the controlled Vocabulary window will keep selected items selected and visible
QuickTags menu has a command to open the Controlled Vocabulary window
QuickPersons menu has a command to open the Persons window
The Controlled Vocabulary window tools menu has a command to open QuickTags
The Persons window tools menu has a command to open QuickPersons
QuickTags and QuickPersons have help tags for long and truncated content
Massively improved detection of moved or renamed catalog folders in the Library synchronisation
Massively improved detection of moved or renamed catalogs in the Library synchronisation
Deleting a Metadata Preset in the Presets Editor now supports Undo
Icon View has a multi line tooltip for keywords and persons annotation field
Details View has a multi line tooltip for keywords and persons annotation field
Details View has tooltips for all data fields
Cataloging video files with ffmpeg now recognizes the "media still frame" value of the Expert Settings
The contextual menu for catalogs and folders in Catalogs has the "New Folder..." command
Details View expands the width of the second column and leaves the first column width unchanged
More Finder Info shows metadata for external Finder files in Red, Nev, Braw, Pixelmator, Iiq, Eip, Gopro and other formats
Open any selected folder in the Light table by using the "+" key
QuickTags has a destination menu to decide, whether the new tags should be written as Finder Tags, Xmp Keywords, or both

Fixes

Fixes a problem of the integrated software updater in macOS 15 and macOS 26. Please manually update this version, future updates will work inside Neofinder again
Works around a bug in macOS 26 "Tahoe" where some menu items in the main menu had distracting random tiny images assigned to them
Works around a bug in macOS 26 "Tahoe" where the "expansion tooltips" in List View of macOS were using the abbreviated content of the column
Works around a bug of macOS 26, which returns bogus creation and modification date values for Fat32 volumes
Works around a bug of macOS 26 that could cause the "Share" icon of the Neofinder toolbar to appear black in macOS Dark Mode
Improves behavior when cataloging the contents of Tar archives created with newer macOS versions
Updated some code modules in Neofinder to use a more modern Xml parser
Fixes a problem when the sort order for Albums wasn't properly stored in the Album if the "Keep folders together" option was active
Improves detection of video rotation in Mov files written by some newer iOS versions
Improves error reporting if writing a new catalog file into the database folder fails
Massively improves behavior if a volume that is being cataloged or updated suddenly disappears. Neofinder will now cancel the Update in that case and report to the Neofinder console or the Auto-Updater log
Improves behavior in Image Capture when you ask it to close the window and also show the new files in an updated Catalog afterwards
Fixes a problem in the photo contact sheet, where in some specific cases, an empty page would be added
Addresses numerous minor issues
Neofinder 9.2 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

(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.