mTail Alternatives

mTail is described as 'MTAIL is a Windows Program that works like the Unix Command TAIL. It's free, no ads, no pubs, no DLL... so enjoy !' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to mTail for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker and Web-based apps. The best mTail alternative is LogExpert, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like mTail are glogg, BareTail, LogViewPlus and Log Voyager.

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  1. W

    WinTail

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    WinTail allows you to view the last 64K of a growing text file in real time under Win32 operating systems. It's a bit like using the "tail -f" command under UNIX. This is particularly useful for:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. GamutLogViewer icon

    GamutLogViewer

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    GamutLogViewer can be used for viewing and filtering log files of all types including Log4J, Log4Net, NLog, CSV files, files delimited with other separators, or plain unformatted log files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    BarGraph (Professionnal only)
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  4. LOG4VIEW icon

    LOG4VIEW

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    LOG4VIEW helps you find areas of code and bugs and identify performance issues. Powerful filters enable you to quickly filter out the log lines you are currently interested in from several millions of log lines.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    1) Message View The Message View shows a list of all selected messages. Message layout and color can be freely customized. The context menu offers are powerful selection of different filter techniques. 2) Message Details All details of the currently selected message are shown here. Resizable text boxes allow event the inspection of complex formatted log output like call stacks. 3) Logger Tree The logger tree shows all loggers in a hierarchical order and permits setting log level filters for each logger individually. The logger tree shows the selected log level of each logger. 4) Search Messages Use wildcards or regular expressions to find log messages. 5) Message Chart (Version 3.x) Visualize loggers as state chart, line chart or histogram.
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  5. JFollowTail icon

    JFollowTail

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    Another free real-time log file monitoring tool. Made in Java. It's almost the same Baretail free edition but with the cappability of searching through the log file. And without a bothersome screen asking you for buying the product.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. yata icon

    yata

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    Yata is a general purpose log viewer and file monitor with a nice pretty GUI. "Yata" is an acronym for "Yet Another Tail Application", so named because of its focus on viewing logs in real time (similar to what one might use "tail -f" on the unix...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. The Absolute LogViewer icon

    The Absolute LogViewer

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    The Absolute LogViewer is a fast, lightweight log file viewer built natively for Windows with WPF and .NET 10. Designed specifically for reading, tailing, and analyzing log files — not bloated with editor features you don't need.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Split-pane view: compare two log files side-by-side with synchronized scrolling. Each pane has its own independent tail status and search context.
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  9. Logbert icon

    Logbert

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    Logbert is an advanced log message viewer for log4net, log4j and others. - couchcoding/Logbert

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Logbert screenshot 1
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    yeTTY

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    yeTTY is an open source application for embedded developers to view logs from serial port.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    yeTTY screenshot 1
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  11. KJournald icon

    KJournald

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    This project aims to provide an abstraction of the systemd's journald API in terms of QAbstractItemModel classes. The main purpose is to ease the integration of journald into Qt based applications (both QML and QtWidget).

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU
    KJournald screenshot 1
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  12. Log Manager icon

    Log Manager

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    Log Manager lets you view the contents of multiple log files as they're updated in real time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  13. Trace32 aka SMS Trace icon

    Trace32 aka SMS Trace

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    Configuration Manager Trace Log Viewer – A tool used to view log files created by Configuration Manager components and agents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
    Trace32 aka SMS Trace screenshot 1
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  14. F

    fLogViewer.net

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    fLogViewer.net is a free Windows program which allows one to view large log text files with color coding and filtering.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    fLogViewer.net screenshot 1
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