AstroGrep Alternatives

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. PowerGREP icon
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    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.

    82 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to AstroGrep.

    • PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietaryAstroGrep is Free and Open Source
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    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 excellent help.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. SeekFast icon
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    SeekFast is a software tool for quick and easy text search on your computer. SeekFast can search in all Microsoft Word documents (doc), PDF, RTF and text files in a folder and its subfolders on your computer.

    6 SeekFast alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. BareGrep icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. regexxer icon
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    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 together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Find in Files (quick search text) is the most popular Web-based alternative to AstroGrep.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietaryAstroGrep is Free and Open Source
  7. UltraFinder icon
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    UltraFinder is your personal search engine for your PC, network, and remote servers!

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Windows Grep icon
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    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 Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. SeaGOAT icon
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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.

    41 SeaGOAT alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  10. Replace Text icon
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    Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Recursively search source code and text files for a pattern, then open matched files in your favourite editing/viewing app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
    • Samurai Search is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to AstroGrep.

    • Samurai Search is Free and ProprietaryAstroGrep is Free and Open Source
  12. EasyGrep icon
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    EasyGrep is an easy to use Windows grep software which allows you to search within files on your computer. Supports text based searches as well as regex searches. Supports Notepad++.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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