AstroGrep AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like AstroGrep

AstroGrep is described as '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' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to AstroGrep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best AstroGrep alternative is DocFetcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like AstroGrep are Agent Ransack, grepWin, Clapgrep and dnGREP.

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  1. DocFetcher icon

    DocFetcher

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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 macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    129 DocFetcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • DocFetcher is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to AstroGrep.

    • DocFetcher is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to AstroGrep.

    • DocFetcher is Free and Open SourceAstroGrep is also Free and Open Source
    • DocFetcher is Privacy focusedAstroGrep is not according to our users
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    Agent Ransack

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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!

    77 Agent Ransack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    Search results, showing the contents view docked below the file list view:
     
  4. grepWin icon

    grepWin

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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.

    35 grepWin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
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  6. Clapgrep icon

    Clapgrep

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    Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  7. dnGREP icon

    dnGREP

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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...

    57 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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    Astrogrep is a gui application

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • grep is Free and Open SourceAstroGrep is also Free and Open Source

  11. ugrep

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    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...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Homebrew
    • MacPorts
    • Termux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • NetBSD
    • Alpine Linux
    • Chocolatey
    • Windows
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  13. 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

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    The replace function is optional, you can search and just move, copy or delete the results as required.

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    It does not search files, it rather search expression and replace upon a list of file.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • FAR - Find And Replace is Free and Open SourceAstroGrep is also Free and Open Source
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    XSearch

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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
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    The Silver Searcher

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    Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per .hignore, .gitignore contents.

    21 The Silver Searcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    ultra fast, very nice, need only the search in office document, ...

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    • The Silver Searcher is Free and Open SourceAstroGrep is also Free and Open Source
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