FileBo is a pop-up panel with everything you just created, changed, downloaded or saved. Press ⇧⌘F — your recent files appear on top of anything, ready to open, drag or share.
New Rename files right in FileBo — 1.1.2 
Finder's Recents on the left — FileBo over the same desktop on the right. Drag to compare.
FileBo lives in your menu bar and Dock and shows up wherever you are — a floating panel above your work that hides itself the moment you click away.
⇧⌘F out of the box, remappable in Settings ▸ Shortcuts. Prefer clicking? The menu-bar icon and the Dock icon are both there — keep either, or both.
The panel floats above regular windows and full-screen apps alike, then steps aside when focus moves on. Two window sizes — compact and large — switch with ⌘1 and ⌘2.
Seven tabs split your recents by kind — All, Images, Documents, Video, Audio, Folders, Archives — so the file you're after is two glances away, not a search expedition.
Tabs, shelves and search — half a minute inside the panel.
«That file from this morning» is a scope, not a search query. All Recents narrows to the last 24 hours, 7 days or 30 days — and the Recents Timeline stretches from 30 up to 150 days back.
When a burst of files lands at once — an unzipped archive, a photo import — FileBo collapses it into its folder with an «N new» badge. Pin any folder to always collapse or always expand.
Open, Quick Look, share, delete — or just drag the file where it belongs. No detour through Finder.
Drag a file straight out — into Finder, Mail, Slack, anywhere files drop.
Dragging out copies by default — hold ⌘ to move instead, so a slip of the hand never relocates your originals. Drop files into FileBo to move them (⌥ to copy) with FileBo's own progress and cancel.
External volumes get a tile with an eject badge. Anything that mounts as a folder — iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Proton Drive, OneDrive — just shows up. Offloaded iCloud files keep their real names; a double-click starts the download.
Point FileBo at the folders that matter, silence the noise, pick a look — then forget it's an app at all.
Ten folders watched out of the box — Desktop, Documents, Downloads and friends — plus any you add, including cloud folders. Three ignore lists (file extensions, folders, single files) keep build artifacts and cache junk out of sight.
Three themes plus a Reduce-transparency switch for solid backgrounds. The interface speaks English, German, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian — and switches live, no restart.
Docs, Sheets and Slides shortcuts saved by Google Drive show up like any other documents, ready to open — with no Google account or API hooked to FileBo, ever.
FileBo runs on the index your Mac already keeps — Spotlight — and everything it knows stays on the machine.
The App Store build has no network entitlement. The app is physically unable to go online — not «doesn't», can't.
No database of its own, no cloud copy. FileBo queries Spotlight and reads only the folders you've allowed — one at a time, through the system picker.
Zero analytics SDKs, nothing to sign in to. App Privacy on the App Store reads «Data Not Collected» — because there's nothing to collect.
I often download or save files and have a hard time remembering where I put them. FileBo is a useful tool that helps me keep track of these files. It has earned a spot in my Menubar because it saves me a lot of time.
I first got FileBo set up for my parents to make it easy for them to find their new files. I put the FileBo icon right next to the Finder icon, and they caught on really fast. The funny thing is, I started using it myself after a while: FileBo lets me get to the files I need while I'm in full-screen apps. No more bouncing between screens or opening Finder just to dig up a file I downloaded. Super easy and convenient!
As a student, I constantly find myself downloading tons of documents and files every day. Sadly, my professors don't seem to care about organizing these files, as they often have random names or just numbers. But with FileBo, my life has become so much easier! Now I can make sense of the mess of files on my Mac by quickly checking the date and location of each one. Plus, the Quick View feature lets me peek into the file to see what's inside.
I prefer to use full-screen applications to maximize the available screen space. But, as you might know, dragging files to and from Finder into full-screen apps can be a pain. FileBo makes it easier. Its window is available even when I'm in full-screen apps. This means I can quickly pick the file I need and drag and drop it into my current app without flipping through multiple screens.
I often export resources from Sketch to share with colleagues via messenger apps. However, my Desktop can become quite cluttered, making it difficult to locate the files I recently saved there. FileBo has entirely resolved this issue: all recent files, complete with nice-lookin' previews, are readily accessible with a single click, regardless of their location. Easy as pie!
I've been trying to use the Recents feature in Finder for some time, but it only shows a few of my recent files. I also gave Smart Folders a shot, but it was just too complex. Thankfully, FileBo's like a way better version of Smart Folders, without needing any setup. This app is good to go right off the bat.
FileBo is a free download with every feature unlocked for 14 days. After the trial, browsing, search and Show in Finder stay free for good — one purchase brings back the rest. No subscription, no ads, no account.
Download it, keep it forever.
One In-App Purchase, no subscription — yours for good, on every Mac signed in to your Apple Account. US price; varies by region.
Finder's Recents is one flat list inside Finder — and it only counts files you've opened. Under the hood it's a saved Spotlight search keyed on the last time you opened a file, so a download you never opened isn't there, and folders never are. FileBo lists a file from the moment it arrives on your Mac, folders included, in a pop-up that appears over whatever you're doing — even full-screen apps — with tabs for images, documents, video, audio, folders and archives, time scopes, search, and automatic grouping of batch arrivals. You glance, grab the file, and the panel hides itself.
Read more: Why downloads don't show up in Finder's Recents →
No. FileBo is a free download with a 14-day full-featured trial, then a single one-time purchase unlocks everything for good. No subscription, no ads, no account to create.
Browsing, searching and Show in Finder stay free for good — opening, dragging, deleting and organizing need the one-time unlock.
macOS 15.0 or later. FileBo is a tiny native app — it lives in your menu bar and Dock and runs on the index your Mac already keeps.
Yes. Files on connected volumes show up like any others, each drive gets its own tile with an eject badge, and Disk Utility is one click away if a disk misbehaves.
FileBo works with any cloud that mounts as a folder — iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Proton Drive, OneDrive and friends. Files offloaded by Optimize Mac Storage keep their real names and show a cloud badge; a double-click starts the download.
Everything stays on your Mac. The App Store build has no network entitlement — the app physically cannot go online. There are no analytics SDKs, and App Privacy on the App Store reads Data Not Collected.
English, German, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian — switch in Settings, no restart needed.
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