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Mac power users who want faster search, disk-usage insight, and keyboard navigation without leaving a native app.

Why it deserves attention

Strata Files is written in AppKit and Swift with no Electron or web views: search covers your entire home folder and updates as you type, and the app shows where disk space went. Keyboard-first navigation is the default, and Apple Intelligence can summarize documents in place. It is MIT-licensed, free, requires macOS 26 Tahoe on Apple silicon, and has a few hundred GitHub stars with active commits. It is young compared with Finder, so deep integrations and third-party plugins are still limited.

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