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acsMacL is a launcher for the Mac. One shortcut, a few letters, and the file is open. No account, no subscription, no second search index.
The interface is in German. acsMacL is built in Germany and, for now, speaks only German: every label, message and search prefix in the app is German, and that does not change with your system language. What you type to search is your own file names, so that part is yours. If a German interface is a dealbreaker, better to know now than after the download.
Download free Ask for beta access Version 1.0.5, signed and notarised by Apple. The free version runs without a time limit — and 100 testers get a full PRO licence for free.
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Several words narrow things down: invoice pdf 2026
returns only what matches all three. A file extension filters too,
and so does a date range — 2024..2025-08 for a window,
>3y for everything older than three years.
The date suffixes work in English: y, m,
w, d. The snippet placeholders further down
do not — they are German words and stay that way:
{{datum}}, not {{date}}.
Under every hit you see where it lives. Return opens it, ⌘Y shows a preview without starting an application, and ⌘Return reveals it in the Finder. If you would rather not memorise a shortcut, press ⌘L — the menu shows everything the selected hit offers.
The order learns as you go: what you pick often moves up. It also unlearns — switch tools and the new one is on top within days, instead of waiting behind a habit from two years ago.
One letter up front decides what shows up at all:
And when the name gives you nothing, i searches inside
the files: i talwerk finds the document that contains the
word, even when the file name never mentions it. That one is in the
free version.
And when you have forgotten the name but know where the file lives: a
trailing slash turns the word into a folder.
vertrag vorlagen/ searches only in folders whose name
ends in „vorlagen“, and in everything below them.
vorlagen*/ turns that around,
it-systems/vorlagen/ spans two levels.
Every mode, every shortcut and what each character does: read the guide.
Two of those letters are not what an English speaker would guess:
o comes from Ordner (folder) and
i from Inhalt (contents).
d in front, only documents remain. The count sits in the top right — you see the number before you switch.s
s, then part of the shortcut, the title or the text — all
three are searched. Enter puts the finished snippet on your
clipboard, the window closes and hands the keyboard
back: you paste it with ⌘V right where you were.
The placeholders fill themselves in on the way:
{{datum}}, {{zeit}},
{{zwischenablage}}. And {{eingabe:Your name}}
asks you first.
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Which application is eating your memory? The list shows it with its process ID — here the Calculator — and you quit it right there, by force if you have to.
Pick a hit, type the destination folder, done. Collect several finds in a stack first if you like. Nothing is ever overwritten, and every step can be undone.
⌘M to move, ⇧⌘M to copy, ⌘K for the stack, ⌘Z to undo.
acsMacL shows you every file that belongs to an application, with its full path and size. What you confirm goes to the Trash — and no further. It refuses itself and the applications that come with macOS.
Type a, select the application,
⌘L → „Programm deinstallieren“.
a word shows Word and, below it, the documents you were
last working on. One step instead of three.
What you copied stays findable — stored encrypted, with pinning and your own notes. Password managers are left out. Ten entries are free; with PRO the limit is gone.
⌃⌥V from anywhere, or v
in the search field. Return puts the entry back on the
clipboard, then ⌘V pastes it.
Drag a region: the image lands in the history, the text in it is recognised and sits right next to it. From there you drag the image straight into another application — acsMacL writes no file while doing it, so your disk stays clean.
⇧⌘S, then drag the region. Needs the Screen Recording permission once.
= 12*12, and Enter copies the result. No second window,
no detour.
= as the first character — a space after it is fine.
You choose the shortcuts yourself. ⌘L shows what is possible at any given point — there is nothing to memorise. Every feature step by step is in the guide.
Three things acsMacL does differently. You notice all three in daily use.
macOS already keeps a catalogue of your files. acsMacL asks that one instead of building its own alongside it. So there is nothing to index, nothing stored twice, and a new file is findable the moment your Mac knows about it — the list of hits appears, measured on one Mac, in roughly a tenth of a second.
The moment you arrow through the hits, the order is fixed. Whatever turns up afterwards is appended at the bottom. The line under your cursor does not move away.
You never sign in to work with it. No usage statistics, no call home at launch. Exactly two things ever leave your Mac: redeeming your licence key — the key and an identifier of your Mac that cannot be traced back to the machine — and checking for a new version when you ask it to. Otherwise acsMacL runs without a network. What you type stays where you typed it.
Pay once, keep it. Updates within the major version are free. Software that runs entirely on your own machine causes no running costs — and so has no claim to running payments.
€0forever
Find and open.
€9one time
Work with it.
Available right now without paying: 100 places in the test programme, with a full PRO key. Ask for beta access
No subscription. One licence covers two Macs, and the same Mac may re-activate as often as it likes. You redeem the key once; after that the licence is a signed file your Mac checks on its own — without a network, and even when our server is unreachable. Changing machines? Reply to your licence email and we reset your activations; you then activate once more on every Mac you are keeping.
acsMacL 1.0.5 is signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple: unpack it, drag it to your Applications folder, start it. The first time, macOS asks once whether you really want to open it — that is all. No detour through System Settings.
The free version is not a trial with an expiry date: searching, opening and calculating stay free for good. For the PRO features you buy the key once and redeem it in the app.
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