# Hold: What you have, not where you put it.

Hold is Moor's part for files. Your files sit on shelves by kind. Search in plain English. Find duplicates and old downloads, and move them to the Trash.

Stands in for: Finder. Included with Moor ($29 once, 14-day free trial). Off until you turn it on in Settings → Parts.

## What Hold does

- **Shelves by kind.** Images, Videos, Music, Documents, Archives and Apps, plus Projects (Git folders) and Downloads.
- **Plain-English search.** Type `pdfs from last week over 5 mb`. Hold turns it into chips you can remove one by one.
- **Downloads by source.** Grouped by where they came from: Gmail, Slack, ChatGPT, GitHub, Google Drive, Dropbox or any site.
- **Text in images.** Search screenshots and photos by the words in them, and copy the text from one image or several. Read on your Mac.
- **Duplicates and look-alikes.** Exact copies, plus photos that look the same, like a resized copy. Keep one, move the rest to the Trash.
- **Clean Up.** Old installers, big downloads and old screenshots, biggest first, with the space you'd free.
- **Work with your files.** Drag files out to Finder, Mail, Slack or a dock. Copy, paste, rename, duplicate, compress, tag and Get Info, with Undo.
- **Your files stay yours.** Hold never deletes. It asks first and moves files to the Trash. Files only in iCloud are skipped.

## Finder, or Hold?

Apple's macOS 26 guide, read 28 October 2026. "Not stated" means the page doesn't mention it.

| Task | Finder | Hold |
|---|---|---|
| Organize files in folders, move and copy them | [Yes](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh26885/26/mac/26) | Yes (Copy, paste, drag, rename, duplicate, compress, tag, with Undo) |
| Gather files of one kind from every folder | [Partly (A Smart Folder, one set of rules at a time)](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp2804/26/mac/26) | Yes (A shelf for each kind) |
| Search by kind, date and contents | [Yes (Rules you add one by one)](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp2804/26/mac/26) | Yes (In plain English) |
| Downloads grouped by where they came from | [Not stated](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp2804/26/mac/26) | Yes |
| Find exact duplicates | [Not stated](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp2804/26/mac/26) | Yes |
| Search the text in screenshots | [Not stated](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp2804/26/mac/26) | Yes (Read on your Mac) |
| Clean-up suggestions | [Not stated](https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp2804/26/mac/26) | Yes |

Where macOS wins: Finder browses folder by folder, burns discs and connects to servers. Hold doesn't: Show in Finder is always there.

## Permissions

- **Files and Folders:** macOS may ask to let Moor use Desktop, Documents and Downloads. Hold searches with Spotlight's index. The only index it keeps is the words it reads in images, on this Mac.

## Shortcuts

- Open Hold: ⌃⌥H
- Quick Look: Space
- Copy files: ⌘C
- Paste into a folder: ⌘V
- Rename: Return
- Undo: ⌘Z

Change the shortcut in Settings → Hold.

Docs: https://moorapp.com/docs/hold/

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Source: https://moorapp.com/hold/