- New and changed files are processed faster, even while large folders are being indexed.
- Search avoids unnecessary result rebuilding and performs less work during large updates.
- Index storage now uses smaller incremental updates and automatically removes retired data.
Release History
Changelog
Stable and debug builds in one timeline, newest first.
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- New files in Desktop and Downloads now appear in search much faster.
- File changes stay narrowly scoped instead of unnecessarily rescanning your entire home folder.
- Background index saves no longer delay incoming file updates.
- Kept search results responsive when indexed network drives are offline or unavailable.
- Made window startup and restoration smoother, with fixes for layout loops and beachballs.
- Improved keyboard focus and background diagnostics for more reliable everyday use.
- Made startup much faster, with fewer beachballs and memory spikes.
- Improved recovery from large filesystem changes without overwhelming the app.
- Improved result updates, menu bar stability, and everyday reliability.
- Fixed minor bugs throughout the app.
- Added small stability improvements for a smoother day-to-day experience.
- Included general polish and reliability updates.
- Completed a broad accessibility overhaul across the app experience.
- Improved keyboard navigation, focus behavior, and assistive technology support.
- Added clearer labels and interaction feedback for a more consistent accessible workflow.
- Overhauled file indexing with a new high-efficiency index engine.
- Made indexing, startup loading, and ongoing rescans much faster across large libraries.
- Improved reliability and recovery for external, network, and reconnected drives.
- Fixed a rare memory race condition that could occur during first startup.
- Improved symlink display behavior in search results.
- Added reliability and performance refinements.
- Improved onboarding for a smoother first-run experience.
- Added clearer guidance around setup steps and early app configuration.
- Improved Full Disk Access privacy detection and status messaging.
- Improved indexing performance for extremely large network volumes.
- Made scanning more efficient to reduce time to first usable results on massive shares.
- Added stability fixes for long-running indexing sessions over network paths.
- Fixed bugs across core search and indexing workflows.
- Improved performance for a smoother day-to-day experience.
- Improved overall app reliability and stability.
- Made startup faster and more consistent.
- Added bug fixes and performance refinements.
- Improved stability across core search flows.
- Tuned performance for faster indexing and smoother startup.
- Added bug fixes and polish for more reliable day-to-day use.
- Fixed a rare race condition during network-root startup.
- Improved startup sequencing for network index initialization.
- Added guard checks for mounted network volumes as they become available.
- Overhauled network and NAS indexing for better reliability and performance.
- Made startup faster with safer deferred network loading and smarter snapshot integrity checks.
- Added first-class support for network subfolders and clearer network-loading status messages.
- Implemented license and entitlement system with Lemon Squeezy as Merchant of Record (yes, the funniest name).
- Added secure license key validation, refresh, and deactivation flows for cleaner multi-device management.
- Integrated purchase and payment status handling for activation, renewals, refunds, and chargeback edge cases.
- Improved duplicate workflows with faster compare and combine operations on larger file sets.
- Upgraded date filtering performance for broad ranges and custom date windows.
- Tightened live update reliability across local, removable, and network volumes.
- Refined result ranking for filename-first search while preserving fast path context lookup.
- Added smoother bulk actions for copy path, open in Finder, and exclusion controls.
- Reduced indexing overhead on first launch with better root scanning and cache reuse.
- Added smart DMG relocation handling.
- Faster startup indexing for large folder sets and external volumes.
- Improved live result updates when network and removable drives change.
- Debug pass for date-filter performance on larger indexes.
- Verified duplicate action menu behavior under heavy result sets.
- Validated context-menu actions for open, copy path, and exclude.
- Debugged index delta handling after removable drive reconnects.
- Internal test build for metadata schema migration safety checks.
- Refined date-range filtering behavior for older files.
- Added advanced exclude controls with drag-and-drop support.
- Improved path-aware search ranking for duplicate filenames.
- Expanded quick actions for Finder reveal and multi-path copy.
- Tested file watcher resilience with mixed local/network roots.
- Debug pass for memory usage during rapid filesystem changes.
- Internal build for initial on-disk snapshot hydration flow.
- Verified early include/exclude root normalization logic.
- First stable release of Simply Search for Apple Silicon.
- Shipped filename-focused indexing with instant local search.
- Included metadata-only indexing model with on-device storage.