It takes a while to wrap your head around this program and for my own purposes I see its greatest strength in finessing specific projects with user-created tags and other parameters. In that regard, it is far superior to Spotlight, which seems to me best suited for very fast, non-specific searches. Anyway, I made my purchase after using it for about 12 days of the one-month demo period. Part of my purchase was based on excellent technical support, which was very quickly responsive to some very lengthy e-mail exchanges that helped me understand how best to use this program.

Leap is not for everyone. But for those who really need powerful search capabilities, integration with Quick Look, and a variety of ways to quickly view results, I’m not sure anything else comes as close, and I tried a few other competitive projects.

That said, I think Leap would do well to lower the price by about ten bucks.