Beagle Alternatives

Beagle is described as 'Search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever youre looking for' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Beagle for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Microsoft Outlook apps. The best Beagle alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Beagle are DocFetcher, Agent Ransack, GCstar and Recoll.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Alternatives
Get a badge for your siteBeagle alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. Search Text In Files is an easy-to-use file search application for your computer. Search through plain-text files and PDF files using simple queries and this tool will quickly list the requested files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  2. Effective File Search (EFS) is a powerful but easy to use search tool. Search any files on your computer or local network with this effective software. EFS is a real replacement for the Windows Search utility. You can save a lot of time with this excellent file search tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  3. Wise JetSearch can help you search files or folders on all your local drives in just a few seconds. Input your keywords, select the drive and then start to search. After searching, Wise JetSearch will show you the searching results such as file/folder name, path, size and last...

    68 Wise JetSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  4. gnome-search-tool is a utility for finding files on your system. To perform a basic search, you can type a filename or a partial filename, with or without wildcards. To refine your search, you can apply additional search options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
    Good alternative?
     
  5. EasyGrep icon
     2 likes

    EasyGrep is an easy to use Windows grep software which allows you to search within files on your computer. Supports text based searches as well as regex searches. Supports Notepad++.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  6. liquidFOLDERS icon
     4 likes

    liquidFOLDERS stores all files in a separate area of your computer we call "store". A store does not have a fixed directory tree (let alone one that you'll have to manage yourself), but is one big thing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
    Good alternative?
     
  7. LAN Search Pro is a free and portable utility for fast file searching across your LAN. You can search for specific file names or for specific file types (e.g. all MP3 files). LAN Search Pro provides a lightning fast search engine and lets you search hidden network resources...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  8. Exalead Desktop Search Instantly locates any document stored on local resources like internal and external hard drives, network drives and USB keys .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Good alternative?
     
  9.  1 like

    FSRunner is a kde runner, the idea is to give you instant access to any file or directory you need. As a lot of time is spend walking through directories, you should never need to walk through 8 directories to get to a location you already know where is.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  10.  1 like

    a small daemon that can index information using the new crawler.

    • very fast crawling
    • very small memory footprint
    • no hammering of the system
    • pluggable backend, currently clucene and hyperestraier, sqlite3 and xapian are in the works
    • communication between daemon and searc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  11. Pinot icon
     1 like

    Personal search and metasearch for the Free Desktop

    Features

    • advanced queries (probabilistic search, boolean filters, wildcards, ranges on date, time and size).
    • language detection.
    • insensitive to diacritics (accents).
    • Chinese, Japanese and Korean support. *.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
  12. Baloo icon
     1 like

    Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Good alternative?
     
You are at page 4 of Beagle alternatives