Advanced File Finder AlternativesFile Search Utilities & Duplicate File Finders like Advanced File Finder

Advanced File Finder is described as 'Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified directories and searching for matching files. Copy and rename found files' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Advanced File Finder for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Microsoft Outlook and PortableApps.com apps. The best Advanced File Finder alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Advanced File Finder are dupeGuru, DocFetcher, FSearch and Agent Ransack.

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  1. Everything icon
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    An administrative tool that finds files and folders by filename instantly, displaying all files on local or network drives. Supports filters, 19 languages, portable usage, lightweight resource consumption, no tracking, and dark mode.

    111 Everything alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • AU flagAustralia

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Clean design
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  File Search
    2.  Instant results
    3.  Fast file and folder search
    4.  Support for regular expressions
    5.  Quick search
    6.  Monitor File Changes
    7.  Portable
    8.  Ad-free
    9.  Exclude files and folders
    10.  Works Offline
    11.  Search-in-files
    12.  No registration required

    Everything VS Advanced File Finder

     
    • Everything is the most popular Windows alternative to Advanced File Finder.

    • Everything is the most popular free alternative to Advanced File Finder.

    • Everything is Free and ProprietaryAdvanced File Finder is Paid and Proprietary
    • Everything is LightweightAdvanced File Finder is not according to our users
  2. dupeGuru icon
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    dupeGuru is a free and open source tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan either filenames or contents. The filename scan features a fuzzy matching algorithm that can find duplicate filenames even when they are not exactly the same.

    127 dupeGuru alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • CA flagCanada

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Duplicate File Finder
    2.  Local based GUI
    3.  Automatic deletion of duplicate entries
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  No registration required
    7.  Support for Hotkeys

    dupeGuru VS Advanced File Finder

     
    • dupeGuru is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Advanced File Finder.

    • dupeGuru is the most popular Open Source alternative to Advanced File Finder.

    • dupeGuru is Free and Open SourceAdvanced File Finder is Paid and Proprietary
    • dupeGuru is LightweightAdvanced File Finder is not according to our users
  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 OS X, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    125 DocFetcher alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Top DocFetcher Features

    1.  Search-in-files
    2.  File content indexing
    3.  Indexed search
    4.  Full-Text Search
    5.  Content Searching
    6.  Portable
    7.  Built-in viewer
    8.  Shared Folders
    9.  Reads odt files
    10.  Network Scanner
    11.  Search in Archives

    DocFetcher VS Advanced File Finder

     
  4. 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.

    83 FSearch alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight
    2.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  Indexed search
    2.  File Search
    3.  Support for regular expressions
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  Dark Mode
    7.  No registration required

    FSearch VS Advanced File Finder

     
  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!

    75 Agent Ransack alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Agent Ransack Features

    1.  File Search
    2.  Search-in-files
    3.  Context Menu extension
    4.  Outlook search
    5.  Ad-free

    Agent Ransack VS Advanced File Finder

     
  6. 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.

    33 grepWin alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CH flagSwitzerland

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Command line interface
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Support for regular expressions
    6.  External editor support
    7.  Command Line Options

    grepWin VS Advanced File Finder

     
  7. UltraSearch icon
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    UltraSearch searches files and folders on local NTFS drives and provides the results within just a few seconds.

    52 UltraSearch alternatives

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Full-Text Search
    2.  Portable
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Ad-free
    6.  No Tracking
    7.  No registration required
    8.  Non-Indexing search
    9.  GDPR Compliant

    UltraSearch VS Advanced File Finder

     
  8. AstroGrep icon
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    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.

    38 AstroGrep alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Portable
    4.  Graphical User Interface
    5.  Support for regular expressions

    AstroGrep VS Advanced File Finder

     
  9. dnGREP icon
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    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...

    56 dnGREP alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • RU flagRussia

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Dark Mode
    3.  Search and Replace
    4.  Support for regular expressions
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  Full-Text Search
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Works Offline
    9.  No registration required

    dnGREP VS Advanced File Finder

     
  10. SearchMyFiles icon
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    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...

    102 SearchMyFiles alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • IL flagIsrael

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Local Search
    2.  Portable
    3.  Full-Text Search
    4.  Non-Indexing search
    5.  No registration required
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Ad-free
    8.  Network Scanner

    SearchMyFiles VS Advanced File Finder

     
  11. RecentX icon
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    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.

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • IN flagIndia

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Top RecentX Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    3.  Portable
    4.  Tagging
    5.  Indexed search
    6.  Folder-Search
    7.  Tabbed interface
    8.  Clipboard monitoring
    9.  Image Preview
    10.  Tag based
    11.  Folder Tagging
    12.  Bookmark History

    RecentX VS Advanced File Finder

     
    • RecentX is the most popular commercial alternative to Advanced File Finder.

    • RecentX is Paid and ProprietaryAdvanced File Finder is also Paid and Proprietary
  12. 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.

    71 Locate32 alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • FI flagFinland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 3.1.11.8220a, released in May 2015, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.

    Locate32 Features

    1.  Auto Indexing

    Locate32 VS Advanced File Finder

     
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