Replace Text Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Replace Text for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Windows alternative is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Replace Text and many of them are available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Windows alternatives to Replace Text are dnGREP, grep, AstroGrep and ugrep.

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  1. grepWin icon
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    grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

    34 grepWin alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
     
  2. dnGREP icon
     42 likes

    dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...

    57 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. grep icon
     37 likes

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

    44 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
     
  4. AstroGrep icon
     33 likes

    AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which is very nice for looking at source code.

    39 AstroGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5.  4 likes

    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...

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
     
  6. Find and Replace (FNR) is an open source tool to find and replace text in multiple files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files. You can apply ordinary "word by word" replacement, or choose to use fully featured regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. PowerGREP icon
     23 likes

    PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.

    81 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Search files with smart queries as with Google, replace simple or multiline text in multiple files. The batch replace operation easily updates hundreds of different links in several files. Extremely fast, easy to use, with excellent help.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. SeaGOAT icon
     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.

    41 SeaGOAT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  11. Text Replacer icon
     2 likes

    Text Replacer allows performing mass replacement of multiple occurrences of text in selected files or folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Windows Grep icon
     7 likes

    The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft Windows.

    40 Windows Grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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