Hi Product Hunt, I built ZipSeek after running into the same frustrating problem again and again: I could remember a sentence from an old document, but I couldn’t remember which file it was in. Sometimes the file was a PDF or Word document. Sometimes it was buried inside a ZIP, which contained a 7z archive, which contained another folder of documents and images. Finding a few words meant unpacking everything and opening files one by one. That felt a little ridiculous. ZipSeek lets you search directly inside folders, PDFs, Office documents, images, and nested ZIP, 7z, and RAR archives. It also tries to show exactly where a match came from: a PDF page, Word paragraph, PowerPoint slide, Excel cell, OCR region, or the full path through a nested archive. There’s no background full-disk indexing, and files aren’t uploaded anywhere. The search and OCR happen locally on your Mac. I tried to keep the workflow simple: choose a file or folder, type what you remember, and inspect the results. ZipSeek is now available on the Mac App Store. It includes a full 3-day trial, followed by a one-time purchase rather than a subscription. I’d especially like to hear: - Do you ever need to search through old or nested archives? - Is it clear enough where each result was found? - Which file formats would you want supported next? I’m building ZipSeek independently, so real feedback will directly influence what I work on next. Thanks for taking a look.

ZipSeek

Search inside files and nested archives on your Mac.

Search inside files and nested archives on your Mac.