One request for a version file, made before any folder is approved. No archive data or app-supplied identifier is sent. The server still sees this Mac's IP address and request time.
Local only · nothing is uploaded
First count what is in your folders, without opening anything. If that looks right, open the documents so you can search them and get exact quotes that point back to the file they came from. Nothing leaves this Mac.
Step 1
Pick folders the way you would in Finder — Documents, iCloud Drive, an external drive, anything. Each folder is approved on its own, and you can remove it at any time.
Your whole home folder and your whole disk are refused on purpose.
A saved report is counts only — no folder names, no file names, and nothing from inside your documents.
Choose at least one folder to continue.
Counting only
Counting file types, sizes, and dates. Not one document is opened.
Totals
Counted without opening a single document.
File types
Worth knowing
No file names or folder names were recorded, and no shortcuts were followed.
Optional next step
Open your documents so you can search themThis opens your PDFs, Word, OpenDocument, RTF, text, and Markdown files, and reads scanned images with the text reader built into macOS. Text from a scan is a machine reading a picture, so it is never quoted as the document's own words. Everything is read on this Mac, by helper programs that have no network access, and it is all held in memory — nothing is written to disk. Scans, very old Word files, and email archives are counted but not searched.
You chose this step
Reading the files this app supports from the folders you approved. Everything happens on this Mac, in helper programs with no network access. Shortcuts are skipped, and the result is held in memory only. macOS provides the language model used for suggestions; nothing is downloaded.
Starting…
Search
Your documents are ready to search. Nothing was saved to disk.
What was searched for
Type what you are looking for. You get exact quotes from your own documents, not an answer written by an AI.
Minutes does not watch files after the search. If a document changes, Show in Finder refuses it; run the search again for current quotes.