grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Haiku
- Linux Mobile
Clapgrep Alternatives
Clapgrep is described as 'Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Clapgrep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Clapgrep alternative is FSearch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Clapgrep are Listary, DocFetcher, Agent Ransack and Recoll.
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- 47 grep alternatives
329 Filezo alternativesWindows utility for instant access to files, folders, and programs. Indexes and organizes recents, enables tagging, previews, hotkey launching, direct file operations, and integrates project-based file management while reducing reliance on Windows Explorer.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
India
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61 SupaSidebar alternativesSupaSidebar is a macOS app that brings Arc's sidebar to every browser - one sidebar for tabs, bookmarks, files, and apps across Safari, Chrome, and even Finder.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- India
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72 Anytxt Desktop Search alternativesAnyTXT Searcher is a powerful local data full-text search engine, just like a local disk Google search engine. It is your ideal desktop search tool.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
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AI-powered assistant centralizing all data by searching files, folders, and cloud apps, creating custom automations, interacting with emails, calendars, and web, offering document summarization, organization, and content generation tools.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Germany
EU
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84 Searchmonkey III alternativesCross-platform desktop search application offering rapid full-text and regular expression search, recursive folder filtering, result highlighting, large file support, and a lightweight native UI built with Tauri and powered by ripgrep, ideal for complex codebases.
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- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
United Kingdom
118 Spotlight alternativesSpotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on the system, it's designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Mac
United States
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58 dnGREP alternativesdnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
Russia
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regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
Israel
Semantic desktop tool searches text, code, PDF, image, audio, and video files by meaning in one vector space for macOS; works entirely offline, supports multi-language queries and file-to-file search, exposes a private API, and keeps data local for privacy.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
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43 AstroGrep alternativesAstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
