Plugindex
Every plugin, as a picture
Plugindex photographs each plugin's window for you, Avid's own and everything you installed. There is nothing to mark as a favorite first.
Plugindex for Pro Tools
See every plugin you own as a picture, and put it on the selected track with a click or a key.
14 days of Pro, then Free. No account, no card. On the Mac, with Windows in progress.
How Pro Tools keeps your plugins
Pro Tools lists plugins in the Insert selector of each track, and three things shape that list.
Plugin menus
By category, by maker, or both
Display preferences set the menu: a flat list, by category, by manufacturer, or both. The category is the one each plugin's developer gave it, and a plugin without one lands in Other.
Favorites
Marked by hand
Command-click an Insert selector and choose a plugin to make it a favorite. Favorites sit at the top of the menu, and in bold in their category.
Insert search
Type a few letters
Click an Insert selector and type. The menu narrows to the plugins whose names include those letters, up to 20, and Return inserts the one you pick.
All three find a plugin by its name, one Insert selector at a time.
Everything you own, already organized.
Plugindex fills in your library from Pro Tools' own insert menus, so it knows every plugin Pro Tools can load.
Filter by what it does
Compressors, limiters, reverbs, delays: sorted for you, down to the type, whatever category its maker gave it. Or type a few letters of a name or a maker and the grid comes down to it.
A click or a key puts it on the track
Click a plugin, or press the key you gave it. An effect lands in the selected track's next free insert, without you opening a menu.
An instrument gets a new track when the selected one already has one. Settings can make that always, or never.
The same key in your other DAWs
Give a plugin a key in Pro Tools. The same key loads it in Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Bitwig Studio, REAPER and Studio Pro, wherever that plugin is installed.
Plugindex tells you when a key only works in the DAW you're in. Logic Pro is Mac only.
Set up once, in three steps.
- Allow Plugindex to control Pro Tools Press Grant, then switch on the row named Plugindex in System Settings, Privacy & Security, Accessibility. It is how a plugin lands on the track.
- Open a session in Pro Tools Any session. Plugindex notices it and fills in your plugin list by itself, on a scratch track it takes away after. Before Pro Tools 2025.10 Open a session with at least one track, then press My session is open.
- Press Index Plugindex photographs each plugin. macOS asks you to allow the photographs first.
Download Plugindex
Free keeps your whole library, with 50 loads a week and 3 mapped keys. Pro is $99 once, for unlimited loads and keys.
Download Free14 days of Pro first. No account, no card. See pricing
Plugindex for your other DAWs