Baloo Alternatives

Baloo is described as 'Is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Baloo for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Chocolatey and BSD apps. The best Baloo alternative is DocFetcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Baloo are Recoll, Agent Ransack, grepWin and dnGREP.

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  1. Tracker icon
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    Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  2. Beagle icon
     3 likes

    Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever youre looking for.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. 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
     
  4. gnome-search-tool is a utility for finding files on your system. To perform a basic search, you can type a filename or a partial filename, with or without wildcards. To refine your search, you can apply additional search options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
  5. Search & Replace Master is a freeware. It looks through multiple files for a string or pattern and can also replace it with another string or pattern.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6.  1 like

    a small daemon that can index information using the new crawler.

    • very fast crawling
    • very small memory footprint
    • no hammering of the system
    • pluggable backend, currently clucene and hyperestraier, sqlite3 and xapian are in the works
    • communication between daemon and searc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7.  Like

    rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  8. Terrier icon
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    Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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