easySearch - File Search Tool

I bought this app so I would no longer have to depend on Apple File System while I no longer wanted iCloud to have access or control over my files and documents. Wish I would have known beforehand that you can’t turn off iCloud without losing your documents / files forever…. unless you save each and every single file and move them to a separate device. Uploading to another cloud server doesn’t work either. Otherwise, you will lose all files /documents iCloud ever had access to and EasySearch will suddenly become useless. Now I Can’t open my files via EasySearch and have lost several hundreds of documents… by turning off iCloud. Somehow Apple iOS corrupts the EasySearch app in a way that it loses its incredibly fast and precise search functions and lose not only all of your important docs but all of the time it took you to create and organize the new file system created with EasySearch. Sadly not the app developer’s fault. For that you can thank Apple. 😖

I recently started using an external NVME drive that I can connect to the USB-C port of my iPhone, a feature that Apple now supports in iPhone 15. When I connect the external drive, I have access to thousands of my files that I’ve copied to the drive, but I needed a good way search for particular files using keywords contained within them. easySearch was the solution. With this app, I am able to connect my external drive and add any folder from the NVME drive as a desired search location. The app will then index the contents of that folder including the sub folders for supported file types (including txt files, PDF files, Word Docs, Excel, etc.). Once the indexing is complete, you can search for key words, or multiple key words and the app will present a list of files containing your search terms. You can then tap on any of of those documents to open the file and the app will highlight the searched term within the file. From there you can proceed to modify the file by sending it to the desired editing app (i.e. open .docx file in Microsoft 365 mobile Word App). For those needing the capability I just described, this app is great! It was even able to find searched words within images. The app also supports searching of cloud locations like iCloud, Dropbox and OneDrive, but I have not used it for this purpose yet.

Better than the stock iPhone reach option