diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b608332..fc0c6e8 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "xcodeproj"
-version = "0.2.7"
+version = "0.2.8"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "xcodeproj reader and parser."
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ derive_is_enum_variant = "0.1.1"
 enum_variant_macros = "0.2.0"
 phf = "0.10.1"
 serde = { version = "1.0.137", features = ["derive"] }
+wax = "0.5.0"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tracing-test = "0.2.1"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index aa9bc74..2af7d28 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 #![deny(rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links)]
 #![doc = include_str!("../README.md")]
 
-use anyhow::Result;
+use anyhow::{bail, Context, Result};
 use pbxproj::PBXRootObject;
 use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 
@@ -23,8 +23,25 @@ pub struct XCodeProject {
 }
 
 impl XCodeProject {
-    /// Create new XCodeProject object
-    pub fn new<P: AsRef<Path>>(xcodeproj_folder: P) -> Result<Self> {
+    /// Create new XCodeProject object from project root
+    pub fn new<P: AsRef<Path>>(root: P) -> Result<Self> {
+        let matches = wax::walk("*.xcodeproj", &root)
+            .context("Glob")?
+            .flatten()
+            .map(|entry| entry.into_path())
+            .collect::<Vec<PathBuf>>();
+
+        let path = if matches.is_empty() {
+            bail!("No Xcodeproj found at {:#?}", root.as_ref());
+        } else {
+            &matches[0]
+        };
+
+        Self::new_from_xcodeproj_folder(path)
+    }
+
+    /// Create new XCodeProject object from xcodeproj_folder
+    pub fn new_from_xcodeproj_folder<P: AsRef<Path>>(xcodeproj_folder: P) -> Result<Self> {
         let xcodeproj_folder = xcodeproj_folder.as_ref();
         let pbxproj_path = xcodeproj_folder.join("project.pbxproj");