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WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs and DVDs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, remote file servers, or...

AnyTXT Searcher is a powerful local data full-text search engine, just like a local disk Google search engine. It is your ideal desktop search tool.

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.

SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...

Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on the system, it's designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer...

Work smarter with files on macOS with fast search, easy navigation, and integrated file actions all in one apps.

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...

AI-powered search and chat assistant centralizing data management, enabling fast cross-app searches, smart document interaction, content generation, and unified virtual spaces.

Integrated AI assistant for task management, documentation, and communication, enabling workflow automation, contextual search, summarization, and natural language commands.

Indexes and searches over 170 file types, emails, attachments, and media on local, network, and cloud storage with instant results and a 75,000 file index limit.

Finding files and organizing your computer just go a lot easier. Dora is the smart file explorer designed to save you time and frustration.

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.

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

Krunner is a multi-function command line menu for the KDE Plasma Desktop.

Pixel Search is the ultimate search app that allows you to find anything on your phone with ease. You can quickly search through your apps, contacts, web suggestions, and files without having to open multiple apps.

TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool for Windows and MacOS. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats.

WinFindr is an easy to use, yet powerful data searching tool for Windows. WinFindr allows you to search for files, folders, registry keys and registry entries with multiple search terms at the same time.

WizFile is a rapid file search utility. Search for files on your hard drive by name and get the results almost instantly.

FolderFresh is a small tool that organises messy folders automatically. It sorts files into simple categories such as Documents, Images, Videos, Audio, Archives, Code, and Other.

allTags is a free, tag based file management application. It was designed to speed up file handling even in very large file sets.

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

Desktop Docs is the all-in-one platform to browse, edit, and export your media files.

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...

FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.

The power of Google on your desktop. Hit ctrl twice and you are ready for a full Google search of you hard drive and networked drives you may have. Indispensable if you need to find files quickly... the price doesn't hurt either!