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How Dhito compares

Five side-by-side comparisons against the tools people actually weigh Dhito against. On finding files, four of the five are not close: Spotlight, Raycast, HoudahSpot and DEVONthink all match characters rather than meaning, and none of them reads what is inside your images or hears what was said in a recording. Dhito does, with every model running on your own machine and no cloud path to configure.

Fenn is the exception and the closest competitor — it is the other genuinely local semantic search app on the Mac, and it indexes far more file formats than Dhito does. Each page also says where the other tool wins, because several of them do. Spotlight and Raycast reach things Dhito never sees. DEVONthink is a real archive system. HoudahSpot builds a better attribute query. None of those are the job Dhito is built for, and every one of them is named on the page rather than left for you to discover afterwards.

Every comparison on this page is about more than a search box. Dhito launches apps and matches them by what they are for, runs around 45 local file tools on the result you just found — convert, compress, merge, split, resize, strip EXIF — and answers sums, conversions, time zones, hashes and colours above the file results. Those surfaces change several of the verdicts below, so they are weighed on each page rather than left in a feature list.

The constraints, stated once: Dhito needs an Apple Silicon Mac on macOS 13 or later, it is not a full command palette — no window management, clipboard history, snippets or automation — it does not index Excel, PowerPoint or iWork files, and it is not a filing system.