Alternatives to AstroGrep for all platforms with any license

DocFetcher

DocFetcher 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 it as...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Search-in-files Indexed search File Searching Portable ... Search in Archives Semantic Search Shared folders Add a feature

86 Like
Agent Ransack

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. .

Freemium Windows
Context Menu extension File Searching Outlook search Search-in-files Add a feature

90 Like
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...

Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com
File Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

57 Like
Searchmonkey

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
Content Searching File Searching Portable Add a feature

25 Like
FileLocator

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 Searching Support for Multiple threads ... Support for regular expressions Add a feature

28 Like
grep

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 Searching Support for regular expressions Add a feature

24 Like
The Silver Searcher

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...
- ultra fast, very nice, need only the search in office document, ... Guest • Nov 2017
Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD
File Searching Add a feature

9 Like
PowerGREP

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 Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

20 Like
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...

Free Open Source Windows
File Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

25 Like
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...

Free Windows
File Searching Non-Indexing search Add a feature

12 Like
Windows Grep

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...
- 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.
Commercial Windows
Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

7 Like
regexxer

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
Search and replace Add a feature

4 Like
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...
- It does not search files, it rather search expression and replace upon a list of file. Guest • Sep 2015
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Multiple files Support for regular expressions File Renaming Search and replace Add a feature

4 Like
Multi String Search

Search multiple strings occurrences simultaneously with the help of this piece of software that comes with support for regular expressions.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows
Full text search Portable Support for regular expressions Add a feature

1 Like
BareGrep

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 Searching Incremental search Support for regular expressions Add a feature

11 Like