Features

Index everything — not just photos
Blitz Indexer indexes all file types together, from documents and media to archives, executables, and databases — without requiring reorganisation.
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Powerful search and discovery
Search filenames, metadata fields, and full-text document content, with simple searches or precise control when you need it.
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Photo and media handling
Work more effectively with photos and videos using tools for grouping, comparing, and navigating media by date, camera, location, visual similarity, and dominant colours.
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Understand disk usage and eliminate duplicates
See what’s using your storage, identify duplicate files and redundant archives, and make informed decisions about what to keep.
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Built for scale
Designed for decades of accumulated digital files — not curated collections, but everything that’s ever passed through your computer.
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Runs entirely on your machine
Blitz Indexer runs locally on your computer, with no cloud services, online accounts, or subscriptions required.
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Indexing and file coverage

  • Automatically indexes your home directory and any connected volumes and drives
  • Recognises most common file formats, including images and other media, PDFs, Office documents, XML and text files, ZIP and other archives, executables, SQLite databases, as well as arbitrary binary files
  • Extracts appropriate metadata from each file type to make content searchable
  • Detects character encoding and language of text files and documents
  • Includes support for legacy Classic Mac and Palm OS files

Search and discovery

  • Custom high-performance database for fast searching and browsing
  • Search files by filename, metadata fields, and full text content search
  • Simple Google-style queries, with optional advanced field-specific syntax
  • Browse and explore files via any metadata field

Photo and media handling

  • Find images which are visually similar or share similar dominant colours
  • Group photos by date, camera, and location
  • Display geotagged photos on a built-in base map, including location trends over time
  • Create “slow TV” movies from drone footage and other landscape photographs

Offline access and previews

  • Search both online and offline volumes – unlike Spotlight
  • Stores a condensed summary or preview to describe offline files, including:
    • image thumbnails,
    • plain text previews of document content

Disk usage and file management

  • Visualise disk usage with an interactive pie chart
  • Identify large files and folders
  • Find and safely remove duplicate files and folders, including duplicated content across compressed and expanded archives

Operation and reliability

  • Zero setup or configuration required
  • Transparent indexing behaviour, with manual control available when needed
  • All data is processed and kept locally
  • No online connection or sharing of data, making it suitable for sensitive or confidential data
  • No dependency on third party services that might go away