71 Like DocFetcher Good alternative? YES NO DocFetcher 1.1 is a portable German/English Open Source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux File-search Indexed search Search-in-files Semantic Search Add a feature
81 Like Agent Ransack Good alternative? YES NO 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... Freemium Windows Context Menu extension File-search Outlook search Add a feature
49 Like grepWin Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
21 Like FileLocator Good alternative? YES NO FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find. It is a free reduced functionality... Freemium Windows Support for 64 bit Support for Double-byte languages File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
18 Like Searchmonkey Good alternative? YES NO A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly... Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
23 Like dnGREP Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
17 Like PowerGREP Good alternative? YES NO Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain... Commercial Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
16 Like grep Good alternative? YES NO grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
11 Like XSearch Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Windows File-search Add a feature
6 Like Windows Grep Alternative? YES NO The program combines the power and flexibility of traditional command line grep utilities available on DOS, UNIX and other platforms with the ease of use of Microsoft... Commercial Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature Discontinued Official site has been replaced with few sentences of text without links thanking for the past 25 years. The program is safely downloadable at CNET aka Download.com.
4 Like The Silver Searcher Good alternative? YES NO 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... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD File-search Add a feature
11 Like BareGrep Good alternative? YES NO A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *... Freemium Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
3 Like regexxer Good alternative? YES NO regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
3 Like Batch File Replace Good alternative? YES NO Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files. Features include: multi-line text entry; full support for RegEx with syntax highlighting and match... Freemium Windows Batch Editing Support for Batch Mode Batch processing File-search Support for regular expressions Search and replace ... Search-in-files Add a feature
6 Like Replace Text Good alternative? YES NO Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows. At its core, Replace Text is essentially a text search-and-replace... Free Windows File-search Support for regular expressions Add a feature
