Every drive. One search.
Atlas indexes every external drive, plugged in or not, into one instant search. Find the file, then fetch the right drive.
Your shelf
Each drive is drawn the way it looks on the shelf and grouped by where it lives. Click one to see its capacity, who has it, the project it belongs to, its folders, file types and what is backed up elsewhere.
Used and free space on every card, amber at 85% and red at 95%, always with words.
Record the client, agency, project, job number, director and date on each drive, and find it by any of them.
Browse it, search just that drive, rescan it, check it out, edit it, move it or remove it.
Search
One search bar, always at the top. A local SQLite full-text index covers every file on every drive, mounted or not. Matching drives appear first, then folders, with identical copies grouped so you see each folder once. Typical searches take 15 to 130 ms across 3 million files.
Select a result and Atlas tells you the shelf, bag or person to walk to, and whether any copy is plugged in right now.
Filter by drive, file type or number of copies, search filenames only, or switch to every copy.
Search never needs the drive. The catalogue stays on your Mac and works offline.
Browse
Open any drive, plugged in or not, and walk its folders with sizes, item counts and a copies badge on everything that exists somewhere else. Answer “which drive has Day 3?” without a cable.
Every folder lists the other drives that hold it, and how much of it each one has.
Switch to the all-drives tree, filter by person, and expand folders across the whole shelf.
Arrow keys, up one folder, back and forward, and a switcher between drives. Dotfiles and drive clutter stay hidden.
Copies
Two copies on two drives is a backup, and Atlas checks whether both sit in the same bag. Two on the same drive is surplus, and Atlas totals the space you can reclaim. Matching is by name and exact size, with renamed copies linked by size, date and folder structure. Atlas only lists, and never deletes.
Surplus, three-plus copies and same-drive doubles, each with the reclaimable total.
Every mirrored pair, with a clear flag when both drives live in the same place.
Pick any two drives and see exactly what they share, folders or files.
Locations
Describe where drives really live. Locations nest up to three levels, such as a room, a cabinet and a shelf, or a cupboard and its archive boxes. Name a person for any place, mark it off-site, and drag a drive to move it.
Each place shows what is inside it, its count, and who looks after it. Move a whole shelf or box and everything in it moves too.
People
Give every drive an owner and see each person's drives, total size and files in one card. Call them People, Editors, Artists, Photographers or anything you like, and the whole app follows.
History
Check a drive out to a person or a post house, with a note and a due date, and check it back in when it returns. Moves, rescans, additions and edits are logged too, with who did it. Anything overdue is flagged at the top.
Team sync · Live in beta
A post house has a dozen people and hundreds of drives. Team sync gives everyone one shared catalogue, kept current in the background.
Search works offline. Changes sync in the background, with a live status bar showing progress.
Locations, people, check-outs and moves reach every Mac, and other people's edits appear in place.
Every edit is kept with who made it and when, on the server's clock.
Email sign-in. Teammates join with a one-time invite code, and everything lives in Settings.
Manages people and the account.
Scans drives and edits the shelf.
Searches and browses, read-only.
Photo to icon · Live in beta
Drop a photo of a drive into Atlas and it reads the brand, model, capacity and label, then draws the icon: the shape, the colour, the tape and the lettering. If a person is named on the label, the drive is assigned to them. You review every field before saving.
Atlas never writes to your drives. A stopped scan changes nothing.
Index your home folder or startup disk alongside your drives, or add a drive without scanning it.
Only drives that changed are re-read, and the search index updates in the background.
Apple silicon, menu bar, undo, keyboard control, and light or dark to match your system.
Beta
Search, duplicate analysis, locations and team sync are built and tested.