The Best 27 HoudahSpot Alternatives

  • RecentX

    RecentX is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders, programs, websites & clipboard history. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

    Commercial Windows

  • Locate32

    Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Path Finder

    Path Finder is a standalone Finder replacement that takes the Finder's familiar interface and adds numerous powerful features and interface innovations to help anyone be more productive on Mac OS X.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Finder

    The Finder is the default application program used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems that is responsible for the overall user-management of files, disks, network volumes and the launching of other applications.

    Free Mac OS X

  • EasyFind

    Think Mac OS Xs Spotlight could use some help? Download EasyFind, an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight and find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing.

    Free Mac OS X

  • 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

  • Find Any File

    Find Any File is a program for Apple's Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.

    Free Mac OS X

  • X1 Search

    X1's Lightning-Fast Search Software. Premium Alternative to Windows Desktop and Outlook Search.

    Commercial Windows

  • Leap

    With Leap you find things based on your natural memory of that file. “Hhmm it was a big photoshop file of a basketball court” or “Something I tagged important” or “A word document somewhere in my documents folder”.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • Scherlokk

    Scherlokk is a lightning fast file search utility build for precise and reliable search of every file which meets the search criteria. Music, pictures, bookmarks, documents, etc can be found quickly and easily.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • abeMeda

    abeMeda is a disk and data library for all your media assets, and almost everything that spins -harddisks, CD's, DVD's, ZIP's...

    Commercial Windows

  • NeoFinder

    NeoFinder (formerly known as CDFinder) is a powerful and very fast disk cataloging tool, reading metadata like EXIF, IPTC, JPG, TIFF, MP3, AAC (iTunes). It rapidly catalogs your entire media and disk library, and your backup archive.

    Commercial Mac OS X

  • iFileX

    iFileX's functionality and design is based on Mac OS early-era file search tools such as Find File and Sherlock, now replaced by Spotlight.

    Free Mac OS X

  • Diamond

    Diamond helps people get instant access to any of their files or emails using a keyboard hotkey. www.diamond.io .

    Commercial

  • 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

  • Toucan Search

    Toucan Search is an efficient solution for finding just about everything! - Locate your documents, folders, music, movies and more; instantly - Find files by name, but also by path - Simple, easy to use and intuitive user interface...

    Commercial Mac OS X