Blink grep Alternatives

Blink grep is described as 'GUI of indexed grep for source code, files locator, search and replace. Switch differnt projects and start searching. Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor' and is a File Search utility in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Blink grep for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Self-Hosted apps. The best Blink grep alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Blink grep are DocFetcher, Recoll, grep and Searchmonkey III.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. Source Insight icon

    Source Insight

     16 likes

    Source Insight is an advanced code editor and browser with built-in analysis for C/C++, C#, and Java programs.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Samurai Search icon

    Samurai Search

     2 likes

    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
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  5. Win Grep - Visual Grep & Text Filter icon

    Win Grep - Visual Grep & Text Filter

     1 like

    Offers a visual grep interface for Windows, enabling fast text and log filtering with multi-phrase search, set operations like merge and intersection, Regex editor with real-time preview, Unicode support, and instant output. No command-line or scripts needed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Understand icon

    Understand

     9 likes

    Understand is a static analysis tool for maintaining, measuring, and analyzing critical or large code bases. Supports programming languages (C/C++, C#, FORTRAN, Java, JOVIAL, Pascal, PL/M, VHDL, Cobol) and web languages (PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. CodeCompass icon

    CodeCompass

     1 like

    CodeCompass is an extensible code comprehension tool with a Python script that helps you to parse projects, manage workspaces, start web server and run CodeChecker in an easy way.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Search Text In Files icon

    Search Text In Files

     1 like

    Search Text In Files is an easy-to-use file search application for your computer. Search through plain-text files and PDF files using simple queries and this tool will quickly list the requested files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. grep.app icon

    grep.app

     1 like

    grep.app searches code from over a half million public repositories on GitHub.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Source-Navigator NG icon

    Source-Navigator NG

     3 likes

    Source-Navigator NG is a source code analysis tool. With it, you can edit your source code, display relationships between classes and functions and members, and display call trees. you can navigate your source code and easily get to declarations or implementations of functions, v.

    18 Source-Navigator NG alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Code Climate icon

    Code Climate

     5 likes

    Code Climate’s engineering process insights and automated code review for GitHub and GitHub Enterprise help you ship better software, faster.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  13. Scrutinizer icon

    Scrutinizer

     2 likes

    Scrutinizer is a continuous inspection platform helping you to create better software.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  14. CodeFactor.io icon

    CodeFactor.io

     5 likes

    CodeFactor.io automatically and continuously tracks code quality with every commit and pull request, helping software developers save time in code reviews and efficiently tackle technical debt. Code Analysis Engine checks complexity, duplication, churn, problems for code style...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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