regain - Search Engine Alternatives

regain - Search Engine is described as 'Search the contents of your files not just the file names. regain is a search engine similar to web search engines like Google, with the difference that you don't search the web, but your own files and documents. Using regain you can search through large portions of data (sev' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to regain - Search Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best regain - Search Engine alternative is FSearch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like regain - Search Engine are YaCy, DocFetcher, Recoll and Agent Ransack.

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  1. FSearch icon
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    FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.

    86 FSearch alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. YaCy icon
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    YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of...

    89 YaCy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. DocFetcher icon
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    DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    128 DocFetcher alternatives

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  4. Recoll icon
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    This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.

    43 Recoll alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. Agent Ransack icon
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    Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    77 Agent Ransack alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  6. Filezo icon
     107 likes

    Filezo (Formerly known as RecentX) is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders & programs. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

    300 Filezo alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  7. Locate32 icon
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    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. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches.

    73 Locate32 alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
  8. Search Monkey icon
     35 likes

    A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.

    81 Search Monkey alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  9. FileLocator icon
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    FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.

    55 FileLocator alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  10. SwiftSearch icon
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    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...

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  11. FileSeek icon
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    FileSeek is an easy-to-use file search app that includes advanced functionality for power users! Search through files using simple queries or regular expressions. You can even sync your search settings between computers.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  12. XSearch icon
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    XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the...

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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