Built for photographers, filmmakers & creative studios

Find every project.
On every drive.
In seconds.

End the SSD chaos. An intelligent index for all your working and archive drives. Search terabytes directly via Spotlight – even when the drive has been sitting on a shelf for years.

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Archive SSD 2022
Working Drive M2
Active
Colli – All Drives
Working Drive
Archive 2023 ○
Backup NAS ○
Working Drive
Archive 2022 ○
drives indexed
0s
search wait time
100%
local – no cloud
1×
plug in, done

The Problem

"Which drive had the wedding footage again?"

You know the drill: you need a RAW photo or a Premiere project from two years ago. You plug in four external drives one by one, wait, click through hundreds of cryptic folders – only to realise it's on the fifth drive.

It costs time, kills your nerves, and pulls you out of the creative flow.

🔍 Maria & J
Colli – Project Index
🎬
Maria & Jannis – Wedding 2022
Premiere Pro · /Projects/Events/ Archive 2022 ○ offline
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Maria & Jannis – RAW Photos
Folder · /RAW/2022/ Archive 2022 ○ offline
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Maria & Jannis – Exports
4K ProRes · /Exports/ Working Drive ●

How Colli works

Built for workflows
macOS ignores.

Plug & Index

Plug in a drive. Colli automatically detects your project structures in the background. No manual input, no configuration – it just happens and keeps learning.

New drive detected ✦
💾
Samsung T7 Shield – 2 TB
Indexing… 26 projects found
847
Projects
1.4 TB
Used
38
Duplicates
Offline Search
🔍Becker Wedding 2021
📁 Becker Wedding – Rough Cut
Path: /Projects/Weddings/2021/Becker/
Drive: Archive 2021 · 💤 offline
🎬 Becker Wedding – Final 4K
Drive: Working Drive · ● online
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The Offline Memory

Search Spotlight for the project name. Colli instantly tells you the path and drive name – without it being plugged in. You always know exactly where everything is.

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Spot wasted space

Spot duplicate backups, forgotten export folders, and old projects hogging space on your fastest drives.

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Learn project structures

Colli understands what belongs together – and shows it as a single project.

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100% local & private

No uploads, no cloud, no dependencies. Your index stays on your Mac – encrypted and private.

Why Colli?

I'm building Colli because I need it myself. My day-to-day involves dozens of gigabytes of data, scattered across SSDs and archive drives. Regular file managers don't understand how I work.

This tool does. It's the overview macOS should have shipped with.

👋
Tim, Founder of Colli
getcolli.de · Made in Germany

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