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OpenSearch is a community-driven, open source search and analytics suite derived from Apache 2.0 licensed Elasticsearch 7.10.2 & Kibana 7.10.2. It consists of a search engine daemon, and a visualization and user interface, OpenSearch Dashboards.

Create blank files, custom file types, templates, whole batches, and reusable folder setups exactly where you are working on macOS.
Which is more popular?
Based on our record, OpenSearch seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 28 times since March 2021.
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| Company | — | Startup from the United States · 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.


No description of OpenSearch yet.
CreateFiles+ adds the file creation workflow macOS should have had all along. Create a new file exactly where you are working, without opening TextEdit, saving-as, using Terminal, or dragging template files around. Use Finder right-click menus where macOS allows them, or fall back to the Finder...
What each product offers, as listed by its team.


Possible disadvantages
An editorial look at what each product does well and who it suits.


Overall verdict
Why this product is good
Recommended for
OpenSearch is recommended for businesses and developers who require robust search and analytics capabilities. It is particularly suitable for those interested in open-source solutions, organizations with substantial data analysis needs, or companies that may benefit from its integration capabilities. It is also ideal for developers looking for a platform that supports extensive customizations and complex data structures.
Overall verdict
Why this product is good
Recommended for
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OpenSearch - What the Fork is it?
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How often each product is chosen within a category, 0–100% relative to the other.


As answered by people managing OpenSearch and CreateFiles+.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Xcode and Swift
CreateFiles+'s answer:
macOS should have created this feature out of the box but does not exist. Windows users have had this feature for over a decade. I created this to remove that gap for macOS users.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I am not familiar with any competitors doing this today.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Power Users, Developers, Productivity focused users, students, teachers, creators.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Its brand new so that is yet to be determined.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I have struggled with not having this capability in Finder for years and decided I would fix the problem for me and then see if other users would want the same solution.
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


In this post, we compare two forecasting models, Chronos (Chronos‑Bolt) and Toto, on telemetry from Prometheus and OpenSearch. We judge them with two easy metrics: MASE for point accuracy and CRPS for the quality of uncertainty. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
Excerpt of the original code; This is a code recipe that uses OpenSearch, an open-source search and analytics tool, and the LlamaIndex framework to perform RAG over documents parsed by Docling. In this notebook, we accomplish the... - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago
In fact, even in the absence of these commercial databases, users can effortlessly install PostgreSQL and leverage its built-in pgvector functionality for vector search. PostgreSQL stands as the benchmark in the realm of open-source... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago
Tracking CreateFiles+ since Jun 2026.
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