LocatorZero

Where does it live?

Type any part of a file, folder or page name. Private, offline, read-only.Searches this computer, drives, cloud folders and browsers.

🔒 Browser version: it searches only the demo computer or a folder you pick, after your browser asks you. It can't see the rest of your computer, can't change or delete anything, and nothing leaves this tab.only the demo computer or a folder you pick. Nothing leaves this tab.

Nothing is uploaded: this page is blocked from the internet, and shows it live. For your whole computer, every drive and every browser, download the desktop app for Windows, macOS or Linux. Free for 90 days.

Welcome 👋😊

Lost something? Type any part of its name.

A file, a folder, a page you visited, a tab you left open. No need for the full name, the extension or where you saved it. Type a few letters and see every place it lives.

  • 💻 This computer
  • 💾 External & USB drives
  • 🌐 Network drives
  • ☁️ Cloud folders
  • 🧭 Every browser
  • 🗂️ Open tabs
  • 📁 Any folder or drive you choose
  • 💻 Desktop app: your whole computer, drives and browsers

🗑️ Deleted by mistake? If it's in the Recycle Bin, LocatorZero finds it and puts it back after you confirm. It never keeps copies, so a file you delete for good is gone here too.

Privacy checks, run live

These run in your browser right now. Nothing here is a screenshot or a promise.

Check it yourself, without trusting this page
  1. Open your browser's developer tools, choose the Network tab, then search and preview. No request appears after the page loads.
  2. Turn on airplane mode and reload. The app keeps working from its offline cache.
  3. Loading the page is an ordinary request to the host, Cloudflare Pages. That is the only request, and it carries nothing you typed.
  4. In the source, run desktop/check-no-network.sh: it lists every library the app is built from and fails if any can talk to a network.

Source available: anyone may read and audit the code that makes these promises. The desktop app is free for 90 days, then needs a licence key, which is checked offline.

Plans & pricing

Use the desktop app free for 90 days. Then pick what suits you. No account needed: after you pay, you get a licence key that works offline.

Monthly

$3/month

Cancel any time.

Best value

Pro

$25/year

About $2 a month. Saves 30%.

Lifetime

$35 once

Pay once. Every update in version 1, for good.

Allow LocatorZero to look here?

Your browser will ask you to confirm. Some browsers call this "upload". It isn't: the folder's contents stay on this device, and the page can't send anything anywhere.

Clean up

Find files stored more than once, and the biggest files, in a place you choose. Nothing is removed until you tick files and confirm, and removed files go to the Recycle Bin, so you can restore them.

In the browser this runs on a made-up demo computer. The desktop app cleans up your real folders and drives.

Move these files to the Recycle Bin?

Demo: nothing is really moved in the web app.

What's new

Deleted something by mistake?

✅ Pressed Delete? It's in the Recycle Bin.

LocatorZero finds it by name, shows the folder it came from, and puts it back there when you press Restore and confirm.

In the browser this opens a made-up demo bin. The browser can't see your real one; the desktop app can.

⚠️ Pressed Shift+Delete, or emptied the bin? It skipped the bin.

  1. Stop saving to that drive now, and don't install anything onto it. New files can overwrite what's left.
  2. Look for a backup copy. Right-click the folder it was in › Properties › Previous Versions (works if File History or restore points were on). OneDrive's online recycle bin keeps files for about 30 days.
  3. Try a recovery tool, and save what it finds to a different drive: Windows File Recovery (free, from Microsoft, in the Microsoft Store) or Recuva. Best on USB sticks, SD cards and hard drives. On SSDs the chance is low: they erase deleted files within minutes.

Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive also keep deleted files online, usually for 30 days. Check their website's bin.

💡 Ctrl+Shift+Delete in a browser clears history, cookies and cache, not your files. Your files are untouched.
This card is help text only. LocatorZero never scans deleted space and never reads your disk below its files and folders.

Put this back?

Demo: nothing is really moved in the web app.