Terrier Alternatives

Terrier is described as 'Highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Terrier for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Terrier alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Terrier are DocFetcher, Cling Fuzzy Finder, Recoll and Clapgrep.

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  1. SwiftSearch icon
     21 likes

    SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives. Most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. FileSearchy icon
     37 likes

    File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.

    76 FileSearchy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation) is a personal semantic content manager for desktop users. It combines search, text analysis, tagging and metadata functions to provide new user experience of desktop navigation and personal document management.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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.

    76 Lookeen Desktop Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Outlook
     
  5. AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user to always know exactly how something was named or written.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Tracker icon
     5 likes

    Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.

    39 Tracker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  9. MasterSeeker icon
     10 likes

    MasterSeeker is software to search and find files in your pc lightning fast.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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
     
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