Zoekt Alternatives

Zoekt is described as 'Text search engine intended for use with source code. (Pronunciation: roughly as you would pronounce "zooked" in English)' and is an app in the online services category. There are nine alternatives to Zoekt for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Haiku apps. The best Zoekt alternative is grep, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Zoekt are ripgrep, ugrep, The Silver Searcher and SeaGOAT.

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  1. grep icon

    grep

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    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

    47 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
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  2. R

    ripgrep

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    ripgrep is a command line search tool that combines the usability of The Silver Searcher (an ack clone) with the raw speed of GNU grep.

    19 ripgrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • US flagUnited States
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  4. U

    ugrep

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    A user-friendly, faster, more capable grep replacement. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and...

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    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
    • US flagUnited States
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  5. The Silver Searcher icon

    The Silver Searcher

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    Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  6. SeaGOAT icon

    SeaGOAT

     2 likes

    SeaGOAT is an "AI-based" code search engine that you can run on your local computer, or you can run it on your server as a REST API. It can be considered an alternative to grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  8. ack icon

    ack

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    Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • US flagUnited States
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  9. U

    UniversalCodeGrep

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    UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  10. rare icon

    rare

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    Fast, realtime regex-extraction, and aggregation into common formats such as histograms, numerical summaries, tables, and more!.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. CodeIndeX (cix) icon

    CodeIndeX (cix)

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    Self-hosted semantic code search platform — server with web dashboard, CLI and AI-agent integrations. Search codebases by meaning with local embeddings; code never leaves your network. Runs from Docker or as a macOS menu bar app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    Semantic search across an indexed project — plain-language query, ranked code snippets, with Symbols / Definitions / References / Files as separate modes
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