Think of a document you can’t find. Fossick finds it — or your money back.
Type what it was about, not what it’s called. Fossick searches every contract, report and PDF on your computer by meaning — entirely offline.
Free trial: 1 folder, up to 200 files · No sign‑up · Mac & Windows · 14‑day money‑back
Fossick is a Mac & Windows app. Free trial: 1 folder, up to 200 files · No sign‑up · 14‑day money‑back
Sample library · 52 documents · try one:
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pdfPanel_Declaration_Form.pdf60% match
Tenders/2025
Evaluation Panel — Conflict of Interest Declaration 1. Probity and Conflict of Interest Each member of the evaluation panel must complete a conflict of intere…
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docxTender_Evaluation_Minutes.docx57% match
Tenders/2025
Tender Evaluation Panel — Minutes 1. Evaluation Methodology Tenders were assessed against the published evaluation criteria: price (40%), demonstrated capabil…
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csvConflict_of_Interest_Register.csv60% match
Tenders/2025
Panel Member,Role,Interest Declared,Disclosure Date,Probity Determination A. Nguyen,Chair,None,2025-02-03,No conflict B. Okafor,Technical,Former employee of T…
That’s a sample. Install Fossick and try it on your own folder — free →
Pull the Wi-Fi. Search still works.
Don’t take a privacy policy’s word for it. Index a folder, run a search, then physically disconnect your machine from the internet and search again. Same results, same speed, because nothing was ever leaving the building in the first place.
Inside the app
Watch it work. Nothing else to learn.
What it found, in their words.
PLACEHOLDER — one honest sentence, verbatim.
PLACEHOLDER — one honest sentence, verbatim.
PLACEHOLDER — one honest sentence, verbatim.
Three steps. No configuration screens in between.
Fossick lives in your menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows), not in a window you have to keep open. Opening the app shows its settings; after that it waits quietly in the background until you summon search with a keystroke.
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Point it at a folder
Choose the folders that matter — a case archive, a shared drive, years of tenders. Fossick only ever looks inside the folders you add.
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It indexes, entirely on your machine
Every file is read and turned into a local semantic index using a small model that runs on your own CPU — entirely offline. No file, and no fragment of a file, ever leaves your computer.
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Search by meaning, instantly
Describe what you’re looking for the way you’d say it to a colleague. Fossick finds the right document even if you’ve forgotten the filename, the folder, or the exact wording.
One price. One payment.
Every feature, every file type, every future update — for US$14.99, once. No subscription, no renewal date, nothing to cancel.
- Free trial included — 1 folder, 200 files, no sign-up
- Full access — every feature, every file type
- Unlimited folders and unlimited documents
- Offline OCR for scanned PDFs and images
- All future updates included
- Mac and Windows — the same licence covers both
One payment. No subscription, nothing to cancel — and a 14-day money-back guarantee if it isn’t for you.
Before you install
Is there a free trial?
Yes. Download Fossick, point it at one folder (up to 200 files) and search it — no sign-up, no card. Buying once (US$14.99) unlocks every folder, every file and automation, and comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Is my data ever uploaded?
No. Indexing, embedding, and search all run as local processes on your machine — your documents, and any text extracted from them, never touch our servers or anyone else’s. You don’t have to take our word for it: turn off your Wi-Fi, run a search, and watch it still return results. That’s the demo above, and you can repeat it yourself after installing.
What about scanned PDFs?
Fossick runs OCR on scanned (image-only) PDFs and on images — PNG, JPG, WEBP, BMP — automatically during indexing, entirely offline and on-device. It’s on by default, with a toggle in Preferences if you’d rather skip scans for speed.
What if it’s not for me?
Fossick is a one-time purchase, so there’s no subscription to cancel and no renewal to catch you out. Every purchase has a 14-day money-back guarantee: email getfossick@gmail.com within 14 days and we’ll refund you in full.
What’s the difference between the Windows and Mac versions?
Both check for updates automatically and install them in the background — Mac included, now that Fossick is notarized by Apple. The one remaining difference is trust warnings: Mac shows none (it’s signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple), while Windows shows a one-time SmartScreen prompt the first time you install (click More info, then Run anyway). Functionally the builds are identical.
Is it safe to install?
Yes. The Mac build is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so macOS opens it with no warning at all. Windows shows a one-time SmartScreen prompt (“Windows protected your PC”) — that means the publisher isn’t verified by Microsoft yet, not that anything was found wrong with the app. Click More info, then Run anyway, and you won’t see it again. There’s a short walkthrough for exactly what to click.
Read the install walkthrough →Fossick is built solo, in Australia, by David. Email me and you’ll get a reply from the person who built it: getfossick@gmail.com.