A little help.

Start with Home

Home shows file categories from Spotlight and live free space from macOS. Category counts cover up to 2,000 indexed files per kind. They are not a full disk inventory.

Documents and your Documents folder

Library’s Documents collection brings together PDFs, Office files and personal notes. Code and configuration files stay out of that collection. Choose Open Documents folder to browse everything actually in that folder, or open it through your account folder. Collections show their scope and let you filter by format.

Find and preview

Open a folder, choose grid or list, select a file and press Space for Quick Look. Use Command-K to search. Search accepts phrases such as “pdfs from last week” and tokens such as ext:zip, kind:images, path:~/Downloads, and hidden:true.

Clean carefully

Scan, read the reasons, select suggestions and review the confirmation. Active worktrees and credential files are protected. Trash is the default. Permanent cleanup and shell-command operations are labelled and cannot be undone.

File Tools

Drop files in File Tools. Only matching actions appear. Results are saved beside originals with a unique name. Tool activity can move generated outputs to Trash.

Permissions

Without Full Disk Access, some folders cannot be read. Grant access in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access if you want broader scan coverage.

Find a file

Press ⌘K in Foldy or ⇧⌘Space from another app. Try “pdfs from last week over 5 mb”, “images from whatsapp”, “budget ext:pdf”, or paste a folder path. The visible chips show type, calendar date, size and source filters. “Last week” means the previous calendar week.

Search uses Spotlight for indexed document text. When Spotlight returns no matches, Foldy checks accessible personal folders within a bounded search. Unindexed rich-document content and automatic image-text search are not supported. For one-off image text, use File Tools → Extract text.

Try file conversion

Open File Tools and choose “Try with a sample image”. Foldy creates a PNG locally. Choose Convert to JPEG and create the output. Your original stays in place; output files are saved beside it.

Trial and release availability

The new trial offer is 7 days with no account or card. The current notarized public download, 0.2.4, retains its 14-day early-access allowance. The circular File Tools ring and refreshed menu popup preview the next release. Paid checkout is not open yet.