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24 alternatives to Spotlight Off – Automatically Disable macOS Spotlight Indexing

Disable spotlight indexing on external drives when connected. - titleunknown/Spotlight-Off

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1. 1
   Hocus Focus▲304

   A Mac menu bar utility that hides your inactive windows

   2014 · hocusfoc.us · its alternatives →

2. 2
   focusedOS▲376

   Hide all distractions with one click

   2024 · focusedos.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Flashlight▲240

   The missing plugin platform for the Mac Spotlight

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Clew 1.0▲176

   Spotlight search for all your cloud apps.

   2020 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Ejectify▲88

   Hi HN, I built a small macOS utility to solve something that kept bothering me: external drives not being safely ejected when a Mac goes to sleep, leading to “Disk Not Ejected Properly” warnings and potential data issues. macOS doesn’t always give volumes enough time to unmount, especially with SSDs, SD cards, or disk images. Manually ejecting works, but it’s easy to forget. Ejectify automates this by unmounting selected volumes right before sleep (or display off) and mounting them again on wake. In Ejectify 2, I focused on making (un)mounting more reliable, with an optional helper for…

   2020 · ejectify.app · its alternatives →

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   Tidy▲98

   Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.

   Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Salmon▲83

   Spotlight for Finder

   2020 · mummymammoth.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Tablight▲90

   Mac Spotlight search for chrome tabs

   2015 · fouad.co · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Focus▲221

   A Mac app to block distracting websites

   2014 · heyfocus.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Spaces for macOS▲127

    Declutter & organize ur workspace on macOS in 1-single click

    2024 · spacesformac.xyz · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Easily▲126

    Control volume, brightness & desktop clutter

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Spotlight▲113

    Superhuman for Chrome

    2020 · usespotlight.co · its alternatives →

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    FocusMask▲64

    Put distractions out of sight and out of mind.

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Curtains▲176

    Automate night shift and keyboard backlight for movies

    2024 · getcurtains.app · its alternatives →

15. 15
    IntelliDock▲94

    Automagically hide & show macOS' Dock

    2021 · mightymac.app · its alternatives →

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    AutoMute▲99

    Silence your Mac automatically in class or at the office

    2015 · lorenzo45.github.io · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Powering▲105

    Your ring of power for macOS

    Feb 2026 · powering.sh · its alternatives →

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    HideMyDock▲75

    Hides you macOS dock on selected virtual desktops

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    File Sumo Pro▲131

    Keep your Mac light. Find and delete huge files

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Enso▲118

    Take control of notifications in MacOS, stop the distraction

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Power Mode Switcher for macOS▲70

    Toggle low power mode from status bar

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Wooshy▲106

    Search the macOS UI and click with the keyboard

    2022 · wooshy.app · its alternatives →

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    Focusify▲75

    Hide distracting elements, focus on your deep thinking

    2020 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    FocusNotch▲88

    Transform your productivity

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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