Lightning-fast sample browsing.
Finder Audio Tools
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The pro audio upgrade for macOS.
$49 for a limited time. $99 after.
Click a file…, then ↑↓ to browse, → to replay, esc to stop.
Lightning-fast sample browsing.
Finder Audio Tools
Instant playback
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Finder
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Faster auditioning. Control+Left/Right jumps four seconds. Control+Up/Down shifts a semitone.
Volume-matched playback. No more loudness bias.
Drag Processed Audio. Drag a sample into your DAW exactly as you hear it, transposed, stretched, and normalized. You can also drag the original file.
Waveforms, your way. Pick a style, place it anywhere, and it looks like it came with your Mac.
Native to your Mac. FAT matches your system colors and follows your accent color in light or dark mode, and it’s ready for Liquid Glass.
Broad format support.
WAV AIFF CAF MP3 M4A AAC FLAC ALAC OGG WavPack SD2 REX NCWKontakt NKSNI MIDIType 0 + 1
Stashes pop up over Finder (⌃S) so you can collect sounds while you browse.
Add Finder selections with ⌃F or the dedicated button.
Press ⌃S to open Stashes over your DAW (optional).
Sort samples by brightness: especially useful for drum kits, so your kicks start on the bottom, snares in the middle, and cymbals on top. Then drag them into your sampler so they’re mapped that way.
Fly through samples at the speed of thought with gaming-inspired hotkeys.
stays out of your Dock.
no CPU when idle, minimal RAM, no files are touched.
Quit the app and Finder returns to normal.
Join the community
Purchasing lets you vote on what ships next.
“I’m glad you’ve made this because auto-normalization is an issue that’s been driving me crazy for years.”
“I am discovering samples in libraries which I purchased in past but never knew I had them! It’s like finding bunch of cash inside your old coat pocket!.”
“A Lifesaver and a game changer for musicians on Mac! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”
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Finder Audio Tools
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$49$99
WAV (including 16-bit, 24-bit, and ACIDized WAV), AIFF, CAF and Apple Loops, MP3, M4A, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, OGG, WavPack, Sound Designer II (SDII/.sd2), REX/RX2, NCW (Native Instruments), and MIDI are supported. REAPER projects (.RPP) also play when an .RPP-PROX preview is present.
NEW! NKS Preview Support: Automatically plays preview audio for Native Instruments presets — Kontakt, Massive, FM8, Battery, Reaktor, Maschine, and all NKS-compatible libraries. No setup required.
Finder Audio Tools uses system-level APIs that are not available on other platforms.
To make a Windows version, we’d have to build it from the ground up.
When you select an audio file in Finder, FAT loads neighboring samples into RAM, essentially creating a sampler instrument. No more waiting for slow Finder animations and disk seek times.
It also circumvents a decade-old bug in Finder that cuts off the first few milliseconds of a sample when playing it a second time, which is especially unacceptable for drum samples.
In the menu tray, select Suggest Features
That will take you to the Feedback Portal, where you can see all suggested features and their upvotes. Vote for your favorite features, or suggest something new!
At launch, there are 23 features that span a few categories — here are a few examples:
Playback upgrades: Loop mode, playing multiple files at once, pitch-shifting samples on the fly…
Visualization: Waveform and spectrogram views without leaving Finder…
Batch file operations: Bulk renaming, format conversion, auto-tagging filenames with BPM or duration…
MIDI improvements: Better audition sounds, controller support of audio playback, MIDI chord monitoring…
Navigation: Vertical tab navigation, jump back to most recent tab, folder-based notes…
Some are small quality-of-life additions. Others are major features that could change how you work.
Yes. Every feature that ships is a free update. No subscriptions, no paid tiers.
Fill out this form for a 20 day demo.
If you want to buy now, we also offer a 20-day refund — no questions asked. So you’re welcome to purchase and try it risk-free.
If it’s not for you, simply deactivate your license (Options > Deactivate), let us know, and we’ll verify the deactivation and issue a full refund.
Works in Column View (⌘3) and List View (⌘2).
• macOS 12.0+ (Monterey or later)
• Launch at Login available on macOS 13+ (Ventura)
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