Advanced Find and Replace Alternatives for Mac

Advanced Find and Replace is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The best Mac alternative is grep, 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 eight of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Advanced Find and Replace are Searchmonkey III, FAR - Find And Replace, Find Any File and SeaGOAT.

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  1. grep icon

    grep

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

    48 grep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
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  2. Searchmonkey III icon

    Searchmonkey III

     36 likes

    Cross-platform desktop search application offering rapid full-text and regular expression search, recursive folder filtering, result highlighting, large file support, and a lightweight native UI built with Tauri and powered by ripgrep, ideal for complex codebases.

    84 Searchmonkey III alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Searchmonkey in 2-up mode for larger screens
     
  4. FAR - Find And Replace icon

    FAR - Find And Replace

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Find
     
  5. Find Any File icon

    Find Any File

     17 likes

    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:

    86 Find Any File alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Main Search Window
     
  7. SeaGOAT icon

    SeaGOAT

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    SeaGOAT is an "AI-based" code search engine that you can run on your local computer, or you can run it on your server as a REST API. It can be considered an alternative to grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. iXoft TexFinderX icon

    iXoft TexFinderX

     1 like

    TexFinderX is a freeware tool to search and replace text inside entire folders.

    TexFinderX is MacOS X, Snow Leopard, Windows XP, Vista and Seven compatible.

    Main features Search and replace text - with regular expression or not - in entire folders with the ability to filter de.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Main interface
     
  9. Rummage icon

    Rummage

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    Rummage is a cross platform tool for crawling directories and searching and replacing in text files. It is written in Python and uses wxPython for the GUI. Rummage allows for literal or regex searches and has configurations for limiting the files etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Rummage - Search Tab
     
  10. Search and Replace icon

    Search and Replace

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    Don't worry about those many files where you have to change a few things! There's no need to open every single file and edit them manually, Search and Replace does it all for you!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Search and Replace screenshot 1
     
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