BareGrep AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like BareGrep

BareGrep is described as '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' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to BareGrep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and Microsoft Outlook apps. The best BareGrep alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like BareGrep are FSearch, DocFetcher, Agent Ransack and Clapgrep.
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  1. Everything icon
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    An administrative tool that finds files and folders by filename instantly, displaying all files on local or network drives. Supports filters, 19 languages, portable usage, lightweight resource consumption, no tracking, and dark mode.

    115 Everything alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    Baregrep helps searching for content which does not work with "everything" at all.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Everything is the most popular Windows alternative to BareGrep.

    • Everything is the most popular free alternative to BareGrep.

    • Everything is Free and ProprietaryBareGrep is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Everything is Lightweight and Privacy focusedBareGrep is not according to our users
  2. FSearch icon
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    FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.

    87 FSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • FSearch is the most popular Linux alternative to BareGrep.

    • FSearch is the most popular Open Source alternative to BareGrep.

    • FSearch is Free and Open SourceBareGrep is Freemium and Proprietary
    • FSearch is Lightweight and Privacy focusedBareGrep is not according to our users
  3. DocFetcher icon
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    DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    129 DocFetcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Has better preview and filters for various files types than BareGrep

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • DocFetcher is the most popular Mac alternative to BareGrep.

    • DocFetcher is Free and Open SourceBareGrep is Freemium and Proprietary
    • DocFetcher is Privacy focusedBareGrep is not according to our users
  4. Agent Ransack icon
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    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 text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    77 Agent Ransack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Clapgrep icon
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    Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. Filezo icon
     107 likes
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    Filezo (Formerly known as RecentX) is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders & programs. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

    298 Filezo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Filezo is the most popular commercial alternative to BareGrep.

    • Filezo is Paid and ProprietaryBareGrep is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. AstroGrep icon
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    AstroGrep 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.

    39 AstroGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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    Far better way to open files and folders. Search is similar

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • AstroGrep is Free and Open SourceBareGrep is Freemium and Proprietary
    • AstroGrep is LightweightBareGrep is not according to our users
  8. SearchMyFiles icon
     35 likes
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    SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...

    111 SearchMyFiles alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. dnGREP icon
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    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, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...

    57 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Indexes and quickly searches over 170 file types and emails, including attachments and multimedia files, on desktops, external and network drives, as well as cloud environments, offering sub-second results and a 75,000 file index size limit in the free version.

    83 Copernic Desktop Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Locate32 icon
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    Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches.

    75 Locate32 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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