Overall this is a useful app as it does a file system search independent of Spotlight. It works as stated and I've not had any problems. It is a 1.0 release though and feels like it. Based on most apps I've tried this one *feels* more like a beta release.

I'm going to give it 3 stars because of the Spotlight independent search capability and it's free but there are other free apps that do this better - EasyFind by Devon is the best example.

Pros
- Doesn't use Spotlight

Cons
- Search starting points limited although tree view mitigates that somewhat
- "found" items in tree view could be more distinctive. (Currently found are bold, tree structure is italic.) Maybe make the found items red?
- Slightly non-intuitive search criteria selectors. For example when choosing "File Type Code" an option menu appears next to it with only one item - "equals". It should be just a single menu although my guess is that the developer plans to add more to the second menu in the future ("does not equal" etc)

Good start TEMPEL. Take a look at EasyFind - it looks to be your main competition. As a free-lancer you'll have a hard time besting them but if you can provide some functionality they don't you can have a winner here.

Good luck!