SpotLook is a graphical interface to Mac OS X Leopard's Spotlight desktop search engine.

It features tracks, which are timelines showing results according to their date.

Tracks can be created, edited and customized include a search scope and attributes to search for.

Found items can be viewed with Quick Look or revealed in the Finder.

This is an 2500 Objective-C lines open-source project; your contributions are welcome.

You also discuss SpotLook, send feedback and ideas on the Discussion page.

SpotLook does require Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" since version 1.3.5

Version 1.3.5
- Snow Leopard only

Version 1.3.1
- fixed a bug appeared in Mac OS X 10.5.3 that prevented the tracks from loading

Version 1.3
- added custom queries (kMDItemAuthors == "John Doe", ...)
- moved tracks editor on the view (removed inspector)
- new tracks model (old tracks are discarded)
- improved icons loading time and representation
- improved menus (cmd-F to search, ...)
- improved UTIs discoverer (bug fix, faster, uneditable)
- improved reveal in Finder (file is now selected)

Version 1.2
- improved launch time and icons loading
- Tracks menu: added a UTI discoverer
- Preferences: added a track query fetch limit
- remember outline groups expansion
- improved UI

Version 1.1
- tracks can have no scope (search everywhere)
- tracks can have no uti (search everything)
- improved tracks definitions
- improved application icon (thank you Anton)
- esthetical improvements
- added online help
- added file size in results table
- zoom with alt-selection in time ruler
- memory usage improvement