SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids Alternatives

SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids is described as 'The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an eye. At that this point your options are limited however' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, KDE Plasma and iPhone apps. The best SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids are Raycast, Alfred, Keypirinha and DocFetcher.

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  1. Rocket is an application launcher for KDE Plasma. It sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
     
  2. Folder Peek icon
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    Folder Peek lets you put one or more folders in the menu bar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. 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
     
  4. Yal icon
     6 likes

    Access your files, programs, browser bookmarks, search engines and windows with a few key presses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Unleash.so icon
     4 likes

    Your productivity level just sprouted wings. Find what you need easily, across your cloud services from one place. Formerly known as ChaseApp.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. File Find icon
     1 like

    A macOS file search utility that helps you find files easier.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Flashlight icon
     8 likes

    Flashlight gives you control over Spotlight. There are tons of options for customization so you can do things how you want to. Flashlight is designed to make enhancing Spotlight easy and enhance it's usefulness on macOS 10.9 and up.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. The Application Finder is a program to find and launch installed applications on your system, and quickly execute commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  10. Mini Run icon
     1 like

    A handy tool to start application by keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Finda icon
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    Finda finds things — windows, browser tabs, code editor buffers, browser history, apps, files, etc. — in under 16 milliseconds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
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