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  1. A fast and next-generation desktop search and productivity tool for standard and virtual desktops, for private and enterprise search requirements. Finds documents, outlook archives and e-mails, contacts, appointments, folders, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Outlook
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    76 alternatives
  2. Librer icon
     2 likes

    A cross-platform GUI file cataloging program with extensive customization options to suit user preferences. Highly optimized for multi-core parallel search speed, data integrity, and repository portability. Librer can import data from "Where Is It?", "Cathy" and "VVV"

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    9 alternatives
  3. Find Any File icon
     16 likes

    Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main Search Window
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    84 alternatives
  4. The GNU Find Utilities are the basic directory searching utilities of the GNU operating system. These programs are typically used in conjunction with other programs to provide modular and powerful directory search and file locating capabilities to other commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    GNU Find Utilities screenshot 1
    2 alternatives
  5. Obie icon
     5 likes

    The fastest way to enable help at work. Build a Slack-first, intelligent and robust company wiki from scratch or integrate tools like Google Drive, Confluence, GitHub and more to create one single source of truth for your team.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Google Chrome
    • Jira
    • Google Drive
    • Slack
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Confluence
    • Firefox
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    15 alternatives
  6. Wincatalog 2018 icon
     12 likes

    WinCatalog Light provides basic cataloguing functionality: With WinCatalog Light you will never have to waste your time again. Process your CDs or DVDs with WinCatalog Light just once and from this moment on you will be able to find any file in a few seconds without the need to i.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    18 alternatives
  7. VX Search icon
     5 likes

    VX Search is an automated, rule-based file search solution allowing one to search files by the file type, category, file name, size, location, extension, regular expressions, text and binary patterns, creation, modification and last access dates, EXIF tags, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main interface
    Search using criteria
    Product Versions and Features Comparison
    74 alternatives
  8. Salmon icon
     3 likes

    Salmon - Spotlight for Finder. Powerful search tool for files and folders with support for multiple selection. Powerful @modifiers to filter and sort.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Spotlight for finder
    Search in current folder first before search all your Mac
    Easy to know the scope of search results
    +6
    Select multiple search results and highlight them in Finder
    82 alternatives
  9. Leap icon
     8 likes

    With Leap you find things based on your natural memory of that file. “Hhmm it was a big photoshop file of a basketball court” or “Something I tagged important” or “A word document somewhere in my documents folder”.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    12 alternatives
  10. ack icon
     10 likes

    Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    18 alternatives
  11. CSearcher icon
     5 likes

    CSearcher is a simple and fast free non-indexing search program.

    Searching computer files and folders is rather common for every PC user daily. Using standard Windows Explorer solution for this has many disavantages: it's slow, uses lots of RAM and many times it does not fin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Windows Explorer integration
    +5
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    86 alternatives
  12. SeekFast icon
     3 likes

    SeekFast is a software tool for quick and easy text search on your computer. SeekFast can search in all Microsoft Word documents (doc), PDF, RTF and text files in a folder and its subfolders on your computer.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    6 alternatives
  13. BareGrep icon
     13 likes

    A free file finding and text searching tool:

    • Regular expression text search
    • High performance search algorithm
    • Wildcard and regular expression file search
    • Recursive directory search
    • Save, name and manage text search patterns
    • Interactive, incremental search
    • Ext.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main window
    Files to search can be specified using a list of wildcards or regular expressions
    Regular expression text search
    72 alternatives
  14. 4pane icon
     3 likes

    4Pane is a highly configurable dual-pane Linux file manager.

    The name is derived from the fact that each of the two panes has two sub-panes: one that shows the directory tree pane and the other that shows files in the selected folder (tree node).

    Although deceptively simple-l.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Default dual-pane view
    Dual-pane with terminal emulator
    Mass renaming dialog
    +3
    Configure screen
    27 alternatives
  15. Taglists icon
     5 likes

    TagLists is a small application for OS X that allows you to quickly see which files you've tagged with particular tags. It uses the OpenMeta tagging system, which means that it finds files that have been tagged with any of the applications that support OpenMeta.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    User interface
    Searching example
    Searching example with boolean logic
    +1
    Different saved searches ("lists") in action
    22 alternatives
  16. Pinpoint icon
     2 likes

    Pinpoint is the Windows equivalent of Spotlight and Alfred for macOS. It is an extensible keystroke launcher and productivity tool. Existing functionality provided via plugins include file and app search, currency conversion, stock ticker look up, Spotify control, control panel...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    App search
    DuckDuckGo bangs
    Bookmark search
    +4
    Calculator
    4 alternatives