A search box over the pile
Type and the board narrows under you, letter by letter; there is no Enter to press and no results page to come back from. The box appears twice, once in the board rail and once in the toolbar, and they are the same box. It matches four things: the clip's title, the author's name, the track title and the artist — any part of the word, case ignored, so a fragment finds it. Newest first. And be clear about the edges: it reads none of the caption, the link, or the text of your notes.
The sound is on the card, and the sound is searchable
When a clip lands, ReelPile cuts its first twenty seconds and asks Shazam what the music is — real Shazam, not a guess made from the caption. The track and the artist appear on the card as a line you can click through to the track itself, and both drop into the same search box as the title and the author. So "that sound everyone used in March" is a thing you type, not a thing you scroll for. Recognition needs a connection and runs once per card.
A board per format, and folders inside it
Boards live in a rail down the left. Make one in the field at the bottom, rename it by double-clicking, give it an emoji and one of six colours, and drag a board onto another to nest it — as deep as you like, with a count beside every name. Hooks in one, transitions in another, a client's brand in a third. ReelPile reopens on whichever board you had open last, and each board keeps its own place on the canvas.
The clip is yours the moment it lands
What arrives is a file in a folder on your own Mac, not a bookmark pointing back at somebody's post. A board therefore plays with the network switched off. There is no account and no cloud in this — a licence key, entered once, is the only thing asked of you. YouTube is the exception: a YouTube card keeps its place and plays in YouTube's own player, so it needs a connection.
One price, nothing to cancel
$30, and that is the end of it: no monthly anything, nothing sitting in your subscriptions list, no account to make. Every update after is free. macOS on Apple Silicon.
Want the detail? Search and Music recognition in the manual say precisely what each one covers, and what it does not.