The Best 60 Effective File Search Alternatives

  • Searchmonkey

    A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

  • Text Mining Tool

    Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files of the next types: pdf, doc, rtf, chm, html without need to have installed any other programs...

    Free Windows

  • Tracker

    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.

    Free Open Source Linux Xfce

  • VX Search

    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...

    Freemium Windows

  • LAN Search Pro

    LAN Search Pro is a free and portable utility for fast file searching across your LAN. You can search for specific file names or for specific file types (e.g. all MP3 files).

    Free Windows

  • Beagle

    Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever youre looking for.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • InSight Desktop Search

    "InSight Desktop Search" is a search engine that keeps track of all the files in your system and makes sure that you can access your files/folders easily and...

    Free Windows

  • multiple file search replace

    Make a change immediately in many files, add new text or new links in various webpages, change descriptions, key words and other metatags, repair inactive links, and...

    Commercial Windows

  • Mini Run

    A handy tool to start application by keyboard.

    Free Windows

  • Organyze Individual Edition

    Find files fast across folders, drives, disks and machines and emails in MS Outlook, find duplicates. Attach labels, bookmarks and comments, automatic backup, synchronize, messaging. Tag Web pages while downloading.

    Free Windows

  • Ffind

    Ffind is a graphical file search application for Microsoft Windows, inspired by Unix "find" command-line utility. It is written in the C programming language using Windows API only.

    Free Personal Windows

  • Exalead Desktop Search

    Exalead Desktop Search Instantly locates any document stored on local resources like internal and external hard drives, network drives and USB keys .

    Free Windows

  • Hulbee Desktop

    Hulbee Desktop is a professional search software. With its "Data Cloud", a cloud of search terms, it helps users to narrow down their own search. This way...

    Free Personal Windows

  • Infovark

    Infovark keeps all your projects together - emails, documents, meetings and contacts are all automatically collected and kept up to date.

    Commercial Windows