The video you half-watched. The thing you copied last week. The meeting where you said it. Photos by what's in them, documents by what they mean. Type it or say it. Trawl remembers it all, right on your Mac.
$20 once, yours forever · macOS 26+ · Apple silicon · nothing leaves your Mac
Ask in plain words, or press ⌘ D. Trawl lays out your day hour by hour: the videos you watched, the pages you read, what you searched, the files you touched, what you copied and the apps you opened. Calm, grouped, and all of it one click from opening again.
Pages from one site, busy folders and code projects collapse into one line, so a 200-moment day still reads in a glance.
"That video about learning maths with AI." Trawl remembers the pages, YouTube videos, searches and downloads from every browser on your Mac, sorted into videos, pages and searches.
Find a link, a paragraph or a screenshot you copied days ago by what it was about. Press Enter and it's back on your clipboard. Passwords and codes are never kept.
▶ 12:41 · "AI is going to take over"
Describe something said in a voice memo, meeting or video. Trawl jumps to that moment and plays it from there.
Press the mic, describe what you're looking for, and stop talking. Your words are understood on your Mac. Built for minds that remember the feeling, not the file name.
"Photos with a pool and palm trees." Trawl looks inside every picture, reads text in screenshots and signs, and counts faces.
searching for the meaning of the mind
Type a line you remember. Trawl listens to your audio and videos, writes down the words, and knows a siren from applause.
PDFs (even scanned ones), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, notes, code and what's inside zip files, matched on meaning, even when the file is called scan_0042.pdf.
The whole disk, by name, in under a second. Mail, Messages and Notes too, once you allow it.
A small AI model built into the app understands what your files, pages, photos and recordings are about. It runs on your Mac, so it works offline and nothing is uploaded.
understand maths concepts with ai→
the meeting where I said AI will take over→
sunny holiday by the water→
what did I google about property→
Save things anywhere. Trawl finds them by what they were about.
Every page, video and copy from the last weeks, one sentence away.
Open yesterday afternoon and pick up exactly where you left off.
Press the mic, say what you remember, stop talking. That's the search.
Seeing, reading, listening, ranking and remembering all happen on your Mac, with Apple's on-device recognition and two small AI models built into Trawl. No cloud AI, no usage tracking, nothing ever used to train anything. Once you buy it, Trawl never even checks in.
The only times Trawl goes online: when you sign in, when you buy, when it checks for an update, and to fetch a public YouTube thumbnail by its video id. Each one is listed in the app.
Press ⌘Y. Your week on one card: videos, sites, searches, files, your busiest hour. Save it as an image and share it. Names stay hidden until you choose.
Found one photo, page or note? Press ⌘J and Trawl finds everything like it, by meaning, from your whole Mac.
AI ranking now runs on your Mac, and the Network log shows every connection Trawl makes. Check it with Little Snitch or LuLu: searching never goes online.
Pay $20 once on this page and download Trawl straight away. Sign in inside Trawl with the same email and it unlocks for good, with every 1.x update. No subscription, nothing to cancel, and 14 days to change your mind.
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Trawl is sold directly, not through the App Store, because the App Store doesn't allow apps to search your whole disk. The first time you open it, macOS asks you to confirm. Here's exactly what to click.
Pay on this page, download from the thank-you page, open Trawl.dmg and drag Trawl into Applications.
Double-click Trawl. macOS says it can't check it for malware. Click Done.
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway, then confirm.
Sign in with the email you paid with. Trawl walks you through Full Disk Access and the keys. Press ⌥ Space any time to search.
When an update comes out, Trawl shows a notice. Download it, drag it into Applications again, and switch Trawl back on under Full Disk Access.
No. Indexing, photo and sound recognition, transcription, search and AI ranking all run on your Mac. Your files, searches, history and clipboard never leave it. The Network log inside Trawl lists every connection it makes.
Yes, if you want it to. Trawl reads the history your browsers already keep on your Mac (Safari, Chrome, Arc, Brave, Edge, Firefox and others) so you can find pages, videos and searches by what they were about. It never uploads it. Turn it off in the Trawl menu under Remember browser history.
Copies that password managers mark as secret are never read, and Trawl skips anything that looks like a password, sign-in code, card number or API key. The rest is kept for 90 days, encrypted with your Mac's keychain, and never sent anywhere. You can switch it off or erase it from the Trawl menu.
No. It only listens after you press the mic, stops when you pause, and turns speech into text on your Mac. No audio is saved or sent.
Search by meaning works best in English. Every language is still found by its words, and speech is transcribed in the languages your Mac supports.
Trawl is sold directly, without Apple's paid notarization. It's the same app either way. Follow the install steps above once and macOS remembers your choice.
Macs with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 26 or later.
macOS keeps Mail, Messages, Notes and system folders locked away from every app. Full Disk Access lets Trawl search them. Without it, Trawl still searches your own folders.
No. Instead you get a 14-day money-back promise: if Trawl isn't for you, email us within 14 days and we refund the full $20.
No. You pay $20 once. There is nothing to cancel and no renewal. Every 1.x update is included.
Your purchase is tied to the email you paid with. Sign in to Trawl with it once and Trawl unlocks with an offline licence, then never checks in again. Reinstall or move to a new Mac any time.
Yes. Open Account, then Network log: every connection, when, and what was sent. Searching, ranking and memory never appear there because they never go online.
Yes. Email us within 14 days of buying for a full refund. See the refund policy.
Version 1.2.0 · macOS 26+ · Apple silicon · $20 once · download right after paying