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 9.0

New and updated features

Improved user interface with crystal clear icons, nicely legible text, and no distracting transparencies
New Cataloging engine with more speed and reliability
Full native support for fast cataloging of RED files (".r3d")
Full native support for fast cataloging of Nikon NEV videos
Ability to move files to new folders inside a Catalog
Text Replacements for the XMP Editor for faster annotations
Image Capture to import photos and videos from connected cameras, including adding XMP presets, and store them in a date based folder structure
Video Contact Sheet works with MKV, AVI, NEV, and even R3D files
Video Contact Sheet has more options to customize, including colors, tech info, and more
Quickly catalog Audio-CDs by scanning their barcode
Web Gallery with five new templates, customization and sort options, and the ability to add watermarks to the photos
New global menu bar app with a nice user interface, and the ability to select the kind of items to be searched
QuickPerson panel to add persons with just a single click
QuickTags panel to add keywords with just a single click
Mini Contact Sheet for videos, which gets 2 x 2 frames in one thumbnail when cataloging them
Multi Renamer has ten more variables to be placed in the new names
New Appearance style: "Drawing board"
Catalog Insta360 ".lrv" files
Catalog SMTPE timecodes embedded in video files, display them, export them, and search for them
Catalog the Exposure Bias for photos
NeoFinder 9.0 is certified to run in macOS 26 "Tahoe"
Updated Display Filter with single click selections and the option to filter out small or large photos
QuickLook for offline items is possible and will show the thumbnail stored in the Catalog
Uses the latest BlackMagic SDK with support for cameras like the Ursa Cine 17K 65 (requires macOS 12 or newer)
Added the font size 21 pt and 24 pt to the content views
Adds catalog media types for SD-Cards, CF-Cards, xD-Cards and microSD cards
Support to write XMP metadata into ARW, ORF, and RW2 files instead of using separate sidecar files
Select multiple folders for the Web Gallery export in the context menu
Displays the number of duplicate items for each item in the results list of the Find Duplicates
Allows to edit the factor which decides if a photo is considered landscape or panorama format (default is 2x)
QuickFind displays the selected media kind in an icon in the search field, so you can see what it will do
Searching AutoTags now works for multiple selected Catalog
AutoUpdater can add multiple catalogs with the "plus" button at once

Fixes

Works around a bug of macOS where the ISO values for certain CR3 files of newer Canon cameras wasn't always reported
Fixes a problem where "Writing Album memberships to files" didn't always work for Found Items
Fixes a problem where the aspect ration of video files wasn't always added to a text export
Fixes a problem where the EXIF user comment wasn't always read from certain RAW files
Works around a bug in macOS 26 where the "AI" "Writing Tools" were shown in most text fields of the Inspector, even though they were deactivated specifically
Improves behaviour in the Video Contact Sheet for rotated videos from an iPhone
Works around a problem writing the EXIF lens name to certain ARW files
Works around a problem cataloging EXIF text fields containing Unicode characters
Works around a bug in macOS 15.7 where macOS sometimes provided the wrong icon for generic files
Improves behaviour when exporting a web gallery, if the destination folder already exists
Works around a bug of macOS 26 where the application icon of NeoFinder was incorrectly drawn with an ugly grey "squircle" in the Dock
Addresses numerous minor issues
NeoFinder 9.0 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