Tools

AI Files

Browse the folders and drives you give it access to, preview almost any kind of file, and start a chat about the files you pick.

Tools

What it does

The sidebar shows your granted 'Places', 'Suggested' folders to add (Home, Documents, Downloads, cloud folders such as Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud Drive, and connected drives) and 'Recents'.
Click a file to preview it. Photos, audio, video, Office documents, fonts and archives show through macOS Quick Look; PDFs, CSV tables and code have viewers of their own. When more than one view fits, tabs above the preview switch between them.
Some files also get a tab for another applet: text and Markdown for AI Write and AI Slides, photos for DreamSnap, audio for AI Audio, and CSV or tab-separated tables for Ledger. The 'Open in' menu hands the file to that applet full screen.
A cloud file not yet on this Mac shows a cloud icon, and the preview asks before downloading it ('Download and Preview').
Double-click a file to open it in its usual app. Right-click for 'Open With', 'Reveal in Finder', 'Copy Path' and 'Move to Trash…', which always asks first.
'Search All Places' searches every granted place with Spotlight, with filters for place, kind and date; 'Contents' also matches words inside files.
The chat button in the toolbar (tooltip 'Ask about the selected files') opens the app's chat in a column on the right, scoped to the files you select. PDFs, images and common text and code files are attached; other files, and a selected folder's contents one level deep, go in as names, kinds and sizes. A question such as "What's in this file?" waits in the empty message box.

On the mChatAI+ home screen, open the 'Tools' band and click the 'AI Files' card.
Under 'Places', click 'Add Folder…'. macOS opens a folder panel that says "Choose a folder mChatAI+ may browse. It will stay available until you remove it." Pick a folder and click 'Grant Access'. A 'Suggested' folder opens a similar panel, already pointed at it.
Click a photo to preview it, and switch between the tabs above the preview.
Select one or more files or folders, click the chat button, and send the suggested question or type your own.

Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud Drive and external drives, through the folders they keep on your Mac
Spotlight, for search, and the Finder
Chat: the column is the Chat applet's own chat view, with its model picker and history
AI Write, DreamSnap, AI Audio, Ledger and AI Slides, through the tabs and the 'Open in' menu

AI Files ships with mChatAI+. Native macOS app. Your own API keys, or fully on-device. Get mChatAI+