Search Inside Sketch Files
Search Inside Sketch Files
You know the design exists.
You remember the screen.
You remember the icon.
You remember the old landing page.
You remember the logo variation.
You remember the component from a client project.
But you do not remember which Sketch file contains it.
Was it in the old redesign?
The brand archive?
The mobile app file?
The client folder?
The “final” version?
Or the “final-final-v2” version?
That is the pain of searching Sketch files.
Design files can hold some of your most valuable work, but finding one asset later can feel like opening a time capsule without a map.
Now Fenn can search inside Sketch files.
Sketch files become archives of old ideas
A Sketch file rarely contains only one clean final design.
Over time, it can become a whole archive:
old UI screens
unused explorations
logos
icons
symbols
components
landing page variations
mobile app flows
brand assets
client references
exported screenshots
wireframes
old product ideas
That is useful.
Designers keep old work because it can come back later.
A rejected concept becomes useful.
An old icon becomes the base for a new project.
A previous flow becomes a shortcut.
But only if you can find it.
Designers remember the asset, not the file
Most design search problems do not start with a filename.
They start with a memory.
“Where is the pricing page concept?”
“Where is the blue dashboard?”
“Where is the old onboarding flow?”
“Where is the black logo version?”
“Where is the icon set from that client?”
“Where is the screen with the testimonial cards?”
The asset is inside a file.
But the filename does not help.
That is why normal Mac search is not enough.
And that is exactly where Fenn helps.
Fenn can search inside Sketch files
Fenn now supports Sketch files.
That means you can index your Sketch files with Fenn and search for the content inside them.
Instead of opening design file after design file, you can search from Fenn and find the relevant result faster.
You can use it to find:
old screens
logos
icons
symbols
components
UI explorations
brand assets
client design assets
design references
archived Sketch work
Example of search for a text inside a Sketch file
Example of search for an image asset inside a Sketch file
Fenn helps when old design work is scattered
Design work gets scattered naturally.
Some files live in client folders.
Some files live in old project folders.
Some files are duplicated.
Some were exported.
Some were renamed.
Some were never cleaned up.
And after a few months, even organized designers forget where things are.
Fenn helps by searching the content of your design files, not only the file names around them.
So when you remember the thing inside the file, you can still retrieve it.
Search the Sketch file and the whole project
Sketch support is useful by itself.
But the bigger point is that Fenn searches the whole project around the Sketch file too.
Because design work is not only a .sketch file.
A real project can also include:
client briefs
PDFs
brand guidelines
screenshots
contracts
invoices
meeting notes
presentations
exported images
videos
audio recordings
email archives
Apple Notes
Photoshop files
Illustrator files
InDesign files
Figma files
So when you search for a client, a feature, a campaign, or a design system, Fenn can help you find the Sketch file and the surrounding context.
The brief.
The contract.
The invoice.
The export.
The reference.
The old deck.
The design asset.
That is why Fenn is more than a Sketch search tool.
Fenn is Private AI that finds any file on your Mac.
Private search for private design work
Sketch files often contain confidential work.
Client designs.
Unreleased products.
Pricing pages.
Internal dashboards.
Brand systems.
Product experiments.
Agency archives.
That kind of work should stay private.
Fenn indexes locally on your Mac.
Your Sketch files stay on your Mac.
Your searches stay on your Mac.
Your design work stays private.
No cloud upload is needed to make your design files searchable.
Not just search
Fenn can also help with the rest of your file workflow.
It can:
search inside 60+ file types
use semantic and keyword search
search by content similarity
find faces
search inside images, screenshots, audio, and video
transcribe audio and video
chat with files privately
auto-organize folders
find and remove duplicates
rename files with AI
extract file data to CSV
capture on iPhone and find on Mac
Sketch support adds another important piece to that workflow.
Your old design files become searchable again.
The bottom line
Sketch files can hide some of your best design work.
Old screens.
Old symbols.
Old logos.
Old ideas.
Old client assets.
If you cannot find them, they are almost lost.
With Fenn, you can search inside Sketch files and retrieve the assets you remember without digging through every file manually.
Private.
Local.
Built for real design workflows.
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