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, BSD and Flathub 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 AstroGrep.

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Baloo alternatives page was last updated Apr 14, 2025
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  1. SeaGOAT icon

    SeaGOAT

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux

    SeaGOAT Features

    1.  Support for regular expressions
    2.  Code Search
    3.  Vector Database

    SeaGOAT VS Baloo

     
  2. Replace Text icon

    Replace Text

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    Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Discontinued

    Official website is broken, no access to app.

    Replace Text Features

    1.  Support for regular expressions

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  4. GNOME Search Tool icon

    GNOME Search Tool

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
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    GNOME Search Tool Features

    1.  Search-tools

    GNOME Search Tool VS Baloo

     
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    Copernic Desktop Search

    Instantly find documents, e-mails(full text), attachments, videos, pictures, music(metadata), and other types of files(file names). The size limit of the index of the free version is 75,000.

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    Search & Replace Master

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Search & Replace Master Features

    1.  Support for regular expressions
    2.  Batch processing
    3.  Search and Replace

    Search & Replace Master VS Baloo

     

  7. strigi

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    strigi VS Baloo

     

  8. rga

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    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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    Showing results when searching for "hello", in the "demo" folder. It shows content from .mkv, .odt, .sqlite3 and .zip files.

    rga Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Full-Text Search
    3.  Support for regular expressions

    rga VS Baloo

     
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    Terrier

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    Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    Terrier screenshot 1

    Terrier Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    5.  Full-Text Search
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Indexed search

    Terrier VS Baloo

     
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