





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.










Meet Dash, your personal universal search tool. Search all your apps. All your tabs. All in one place.




Easily index millions of files and folders on you hard drive. Even files under archives will be indexed when you scan your drive with Easy Disk Catalog Maker.




Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:




Local-first desktop app for Mac enabling plain English search across files, metadata, and full-text content, with privacy-centric processing and semantic ranking.




Fast file search utility scanning all drives with its own engine, locating system, hidden, and non-indexed files, supporting hex editing and file comparison.




FilePursuit is intended to provide a very powerful file indexing and search service allowing you to find a file among millions of files located on web servers. Our database is daily replenished by our robots that crawl through free access internet resources.




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.
Velocmd is a high-performance system launcher and file indexer designed to bring a unified, instant command palette to Windows. Powered by a Rust backend and a lightweight Tauri frontend, it bypasses the sluggish native Windows search by utilizing an optimized, in-memory indexing strategy.


DoubleXplorer is a dual-pane file manager for macOS with a range of features, including a Command Palette, rich archive support (7z, Rar, Tar, Zip), file comparison, connection to servers (Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, FTP), and more.




File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.


wList is a simple Windows app for fast file searching right out of the box. Designed for average users, it overcomes built-in searches to find files quickly without complex setup.


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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.




A beautiful, extensible search-based Android launcher that helps you get things done faster. Everything you need is right at your fingertips. No more searching through grids of icons. This is still a work in progress.

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.


Indexer++ is probably the best open-source desktop files and folders search utility for Windows.


KFind can be used as a standalone search tool, launched by KRunner or from your menu. It is also integrated into Konqueror as "Find File" in the "Tools" menu. It allows you to find files by name, type or content.

Filez: Ultimate File Manager for Android built with bleeding edge technologies. Get access to your recent files, images, media and documents in one tap. Browse your file system with no restrictions.




Fenn is a powerful, AI-driven desktop search engine for macOS that makes your files instantly searchable—including videos, audio, PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets, and images. Just type or upload an image to find exactly where any object, person, or concept appears.

A cross-platform GUI file cataloging program with extensive customization options to suit user preferences. Highly optimized for multi-core parallel search speed, data integrity, and repository portability. Librer can import data from "Where Is It?", "Cathy" and "VVV"


