72 Like DocFetcher Good alternative? YES NO 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 File-search Indexed search Semantic Search Add a feature
24 Like Catfish Good alternative? YES NO Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. Catfish is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The... Free Open Source Linux Xfce Autocompletion File-search Add a feature
27 Like Recoll Good alternative? YES NO This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface. ... Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD File-search Indexed search Search-in-files File preview ... File-search Full text search Low memory usage Semantic Search Add a feature
22 Like regain Good alternative? YES NO Search the contents of your files not just the file names. regain is a search engine similar to web search engines like Google, with the difference that you don't... Free Open Source Windows Linux Self-Hosted Indexed search Search-in-files Add a feature
19 Like Searchmonkey Good alternative? YES NO 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 No features added Add a feature
4 Like Tracker Good alternative? YES NO 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. Free Open Source Linux Xfce No features added Add a feature
7 Like Zeitgeist Good alternative? YES NO Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users's activities and events, anywhere from files opened to websites visited and conversations. It makes this information... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
6 Like SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation) YES NO SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation) is a personal semantic content manager for desktop users. It combines search, text analysis, tagging and metadata... Free Mac Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
1 Like Fsrunner Good alternative? YES NO FSRunner is a kde runner, the idea is to give you instant access to any file or directory you need. As a lot of time is spend walking through directories, you should... Free Open Source Linux Indexed search Add a feature
0 Like Pinot Good alternative? YES NO Personal search and metasearch for the Free Desktop Features * advanced queries (probabilistic search, boolean filters, wildcards, ranges on date, time and size).... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
0 Like strigi Good alternative? YES NO a small daemon that can index information using the new crawler. * very fast crawling * very small memory footprint * no hammering of the system * pluggable... Free Open Source Linux No features added Add a feature
