Looking for a Jumper alternative?
Jumper is excellent if you live inside Final Cut or Premiere — it searches from within the timeline. But it's a per-seat, per-NLE plugin, and it only sees the project you have open. If you need to search a whole archive, here's the comparison.
| MediaFind | Jumper | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 one-time | Per seat, per NLE (monthly / yearly / lifetime) |
| Form factor | Standalone app — searches your whole library | Plugin inside Final Cut / Premiere |
| Searches | Your entire archive | The project open in the NLE |
| Account required | No | No |
| Runs on-device | Yes | Yes |
| Platforms | macOS · Windows · Linux (CPU-only OK) | macOS · Windows |
| Search by dialogue | Yes | Yes |
| Faces / people | Yes | Yes (Pro) |
| Scenes / objects / actions | Yes | Yes |
| On-screen text (OCR) | Yes | — |
| Logos / brands | Yes | — |
| Songs / audio events | Yes | — |
| Export to NLE | FCPXML · EDL · Resolve handoff | Native (lives in the timeline) |
| Provable privacy | Yes — built-in audit, source-available | Asserted (closed source) |
Jumper details from its public pricing/marketing pages as of June 2026; vendors change terms — check Jumper's site before buying. "—" means not advertised as a search modality, not that it's impossible.
Which one is for you
Pick MediaFind if you have a library to search — an archive of interviews, b-roll, past projects — and you want one place to find the clip first, then send it to your NLE. One price covers the whole app, on Mac, Windows or Linux.
Pick Jumper if you're an editor mid-cut who wants search in the timeline and rarely needs to look outside the open project. MediaFind exports to your NLE, but it isn't an in-timeline panel.
Search the archive, not just the open project
Jumper's strength — being inside the editor — is also its boundary: it searches what you've already imported. MediaFind indexes your whole disk of footage, so "find every shot where someone says X, or this logo appears, or this song plays" works across everything you own, then hands the result to Final Cut, Premiere or Resolve.
One purchase, every editor, every platform
Because Jumper is licensed per seat and per NLE, cost grows with your setup. MediaFind is $29 once, runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, and doesn't care which editor you export to.
Search your whole library for $29 — once.
Free trial, no account. Unlock everything with a one-time purchase — no subscription, ever.
Download for macOS Unlock Pro — $29See how MediaFind stacks up against every local media-search tool in the full MediaFind vs Jumper, Clipto & Peakto comparison.