DriveSearch

Search every Google Drive you use — from one keyboard shortcut.

I work across several Google accounts, and finding a file meant remembering which one it was in, opening Drive, signing into the right account, and searching again. DriveSearch is the small app I built so I could stop doing that.

Press ⌃ ⌥ Space anywhere. Type. It searches every account you've connected at once, and shows you which Drive each result came from. Hit return and the file opens.

DriveSearch search window showing results from several Google accounts, each tagged with its domain

What it does

Searches all your Google accounts at once — personal and work — and merges the results.
Finds files and folders, across My Drive and Shared Drives.
Colour-codes every result by the account it lives in, so you can see at a glance whose Drive it's in.
Optionally matches words inside your documents, not just their names.
Lives in the menu bar. Opens instantly. Stays out of the way.

What it can see

Only file names. DriveSearch asks Google for a single permission — “view metadata for files in your Drive.” That permission does not allow reading or downloading file contents, so DriveSearch cannot, even in principle, see what's inside your files.

Everything happens on your Mac. There is no DriveSearch server, no account to create, no analytics, and no tracking. Your sign-in tokens are stored in the macOS Keychain. I never receive your data, because there is nowhere for it to go.

Even the “search inside documents” option works this way: your search words go to Google, and Google replies with the names of matching files. The contents never reach DriveSearch.

Full detail in the privacy policy.

Requirements

macOS 13 or later
One or more Google accounts

Download for Mac