Advanced File Finder Alternatives

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, FSearch, DocFetcher and Agent Ransack.

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  2. 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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  3. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  5. 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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. ANGRYsearch icon
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    Instant file search, showing results as you type.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. FileSearchy icon
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    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.

    76 FileSearchy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. PowerGREP icon
     22 likes
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    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.

    82 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    A fast and next-generation desktop search and productivity tool for standard and virtual desktops, for private and enterprise search requirements. Finds documents, outlook archives and e-mails, contacts, appointments, folders, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Outlook
     
  10. Find Any File icon
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    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:

    84 Find Any File alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user to always know exactly how something was named or written.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. CSearcher icon
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    CSearcher is a simple and fast free non-indexing search program.

    Searching computer files and folders is rather common for every PC user daily. Using standard Windows Explorer solution for this has many disavantages: it's slow, uses lots of RAM and many times it does not fin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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