Turn your Mac into a private AI agent, no setup required

You should not have to build an AI agent to get agent power. You want answers from your own files, then a click that opens the exact page, slide, or timestamp. The old way is sorting folders, renaming files, and scanning documents line by line. With Fenn, you install the app, index your folders, enable Agent Mode, and ask. Everything stays on your Mac.

What changes when Agent Mode is on

Fenn is an AI powered file search engine for macOS. It understands the content of your PDFs, Office files, images, screenshots, notes, audio, and video. When you enable Agent Mode, you can ask complex questions in plain English and Fenn finds the matches across your files, then opens the exact moment inside each file.

Examples you can try right now:

• “Find all my restaurant invoices above 50 dollars before January 1, 2026. Open each at the total.”

• “Show every NDA that mentions termination within 30 days. Open to the clause.”

• “Which keynote slide mentions Q3 gross margin above 60 percent. Open that slide.”

• “Where in the Q2 meeting recording did we confirm launch readiness. Open at that minute.”

Your files never leave your Mac. Fenn is on device by default for privacy. Results include contextual snippets and deep links, so you jump to the right page, slide number, audio timestamp, or video frame.

Why this replaces hours of busywork

Before Fenn, you would spend time building folder structures and clever filenames, then open documents one by one to check dates and amounts. For the invoice example, that means browsing a year of PDFs, reading totals, and jotting down matches. With Fenn, you write one query, get the list, and click through to the exact lines that matter. Five minutes instead of fifty.

If your work depends on precision, the difference is even bigger. Opening directly to a clause in a 200 page contract, to the figure page in a clinical PDF, or to the exact minute in a one hour call transforms your throughput. You stop searching for files and start using the moments inside them.

Quick start

1. Install Fenn on an Apple Silicon Mac, macOS Sonoma 14 or later is recommended.

2. Add your core folders as sources, finance, legal, research, meetings.

3. Let Fenn index on device.

4. Enable Agent Mode.

5. Ask your first complex question, for example the invoice query above.

6. Click results to open at the exact moment.

Tip, keep Fenn on a keyboard shortcut so you can ask from anywhere.

Performance and system requirements

Agent Mode works best on Macs with at least 32 GB of RAM. If you have 16 GB, reach out and we will help you make it work smoothly on your machine. Fenn runs locally, so Apple Silicon gives you strong indexing and low query latency.

Pricing

• Local, 9 USD per month, billed annually. On device indexing. Semantic and keyword search. 1 Mac. Updates. Founder support.

• Lifetime, 199 USD one time. On device indexing. Semantic and keyword search. 1 year of updates. 1 Mac. Founder support.

Where Agent Mode shines

• Finance and operations. Filter invoices by vendor, amount, or date. Open each PDF at the exact total line.

• Legal and compliance. Ask for governing law, renewal, or termination clauses across matters. Jump straight to the language.

• Research and product. Pull figures, tables, and call moments by topic. Open the page or timestamp to verify instantly.

• Presentations and notes. Find the slide that mentions a metric or objective. Open the slide without skimming the deck.

If you want more hands on examples, see how we open the right page in long Word and PowerPoint files in our guide to search inside Office documents on Mac and how we recall text baked into pictures in find text in images and screenshots on Mac. For knowledge bases, you can also search your outlines and entries in search Obsidian notes on Mac and jump straight to the line you need.