Advanced Find and Replace AlternativesOnly apps categorised as File Search Utilities

The best File Search alternative to Advanced Find and Replace is grepWin, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Advanced Find and Replace and many of them are File Search Utilities so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting File Search Utility alternatives to Advanced Find and Replace are dnGREP, AstroGrep, grep and Search Monkey.

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Advanced Find and Replace

File Search Utility
Paid • Proprietary

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...

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Advanced Find and Replace alternatives page was last updated Jun 6, 2024

grepWin
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.
32 grepWin alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Chocolatey
grepWin Features
1. Portable
2. Dark Mode
3. Command line interface
4. Ad-free
5. Lightweight
6. Support for regular expressions
7. External editor support
8. Command Line Options
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- grepWin is the most popular Windows alternative to Advanced Find and Replace.
- grepWin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Advanced Find and Replace.
- grepWin is Free and Open SourceAdvanced Find and Replace is Paid and Proprietary
- grepWin is LightweightAdvanced Find and Replace is not according to our users

dnGREP
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...
55 dnGREP alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
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dnGREP Features
1. Portable
2. Dark Mode
3. Search and Replace
4. Lightweight
5. No Tracking
6. Full-Text Search
7. Ad-free
8. Works Offline
9. No registration required
10. Support for regular expressions
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AstroGrep
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.
37 AstroGrep alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
AstroGrep Features
1. Windows Explorer Extension
2. Lightweight
3. Dark Mode
4. Portable
5. Graphical User Interface
6. Support for regular expressions
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grep
grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.
41 grep alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Haiku
grep Features
Support for regular expressions
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- grep is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Advanced Find and Replace.
- grep is Free and Open SourceAdvanced Find and Replace is Paid and Proprietary

Search Monkey
A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories.
77 Search Monkey alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
Search Monkey Features
Portable
Content Searching
Content preview
Real-Time Search
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FAR - Find And Replace
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.
31 FAR - Find And Replace alternatives
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Top FAR - Find And Replace Features
1. Works Offline
2. Ad-free
3. Multiple files
4. Search and Replace
5. Dark Mode
6. Batch Rename Files
7. Lightweight
8. Batch Editing
9. Portable
10. MP3 / ID3 Renaming
11. No registration required
12. Built-in viewer
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PowerGREP
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.
80 PowerGREP alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
PowerGREP Features
Portable
Support for regular expressions
Search and Replace
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- PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to Advanced Find and Replace.
- PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietaryAdvanced Find and Replace is also Paid and Proprietary

Find Any File
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:
80 Find Any File alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Mac
Find Any File Features
Search and Replace
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BareGrep
A free file finding and text searching tool:

Regular expression text search

High performance search algorithm

Wildcard and regular expression file search

Recursive directory search

Save, name and manage text search patterns

Interactive, incremental search

Ext.
73 BareGrep alternatives
License model
- Freemium • Proprietary
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
BareGrep Features
Support for regular expressions
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Advanced Recent Access
Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.
262 Advanced Recent Access alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
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XSearch
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...
71 XSearch alternatives
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
XSearch Features
Non-Indexing search
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UltraFinder
UltraFinder is your personal search engine for your PC, network, and remote servers!
30 UltraFinder alternatives
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application type
- File Search Utility
Platforms
- Windows
UltraFinder Features
Support for FTP
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