Jump from anywhere
⌥Space opens Scout's palette over any app. Pick a folder and you're there; press Esc to go back to what you were doing.
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Find
Fewer clicks to everything.
Scout keeps a private index of your folders, ranked by how often you use them. Files come from Spotlight, by name or by what's inside.
Recents and Group By
Everything you opened or downloaded lately, grouped by day. Any folder can split into blocks by kind, date, size or tag, and remembers how you left it.
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Organize without moving things around
Color and label folders, tag files the same way Finder does, gather a project's folders into a Workspace, and keep a Shelf for files you're collecting. List, icon and column views, with split panes for moving between two places.
Split panes and tabs
Two folders side by side, each with tabs. F5 copies across, F6 moves.
Tidy Folder
Sorts loose files into PDFs, Images, Installers and more. You see the plan first; ⌘Z undoes it.
Rename many at once
Stack steps (replace with regex, add text, change case, new names like {created} {n}), preview every name, and save it as a preset.
Safe copies
Progress with Cancel for big copies, and a clear Replace, Keep Both or Skip when names clash.
Rich previews
Rendered markdown, highlighted code, scrollable PDFs and video, right in the info panel.
Cloud aware
See which iCloud and OneDrive files are online-only, and download or free them up.
Clean Up
See the space. Choose what goes.
Developer caches, old installers, duplicates, forgotten node_modules and apps you don't use. Scout explains each one, ticks only the safe ones, and moves your picks to the Trash so nothing is gone for good.
For developers
Git, terminals and packages, built in.
Turn on Developer tools in Settings: branch and status in the header, badges on changed files, one-key Open in Terminal and Open in Editor, and everything Homebrew and npm installed, with what's outdated.
Git at a glance
A branch chip with ahead and behind counts, and every changed file in the repo on one page.
Your tools, one key away
Tern, Ghostty, iTerm or Terminal. Cursor, VS Code, Zed or Xcode. Pick them once in Settings.
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Packages
Homebrew and npm in one list with sizes and updates. Scout hands you the upgrade command; it never runs installs itself.
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A command line, links and Shortcuts
The scout tool ranks folders the same way the palette does. scout:// links, Raycast commands, and Shortcuts actions drive the app from anywhere.
# cd to the best match, like zoxide
$ cd "$(scout jump northwind)"
# show the tidy plan for Downloads
$ open "scout://tidy?path=~/Downloads"
# duplicate files over 1 MB, biggest waste first
$ scout duplicates ~/Desktop
Keyboard
Built for your keyboard.
Type a name to select it, use the arrow keys in every view, and press Esc to back out of anything. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings.
Jump to anything⌘K
From any app⌥Space
Split view⌘D
All shortcuts⌘/
Sixteen builds in, and moving fast.
See everything that's been added, changed, fixed and removed since the first version.