BlitzSearch Alternatives

BlitzSearch is described as 'A Stand alone Windows (x64) Search Tool that works together with Many Popular IDE's and Text Editors' and is an app in the development category. There are eight alternatives to BlitzSearch for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Flathub and PortableApps.com apps. The best BlitzSearch alternative is DocFetcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like BlitzSearch are grepWin, Clapgrep, AstroGrep and SearchMyFiles.

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  1. DocFetcher icon

    DocFetcher

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • DocFetcher is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to BlitzSearch.

    • DocFetcher is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to BlitzSearch.

    • DocFetcher is Free and Open SourceBlitzSearch is also Free and Open Source
    • DocFetcher is Privacy focusedBlitzSearch is not according to our users
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    grepWin

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    grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

    35 grepWin alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
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  4. Clapgrep icon

    Clapgrep

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  5. AstroGrep icon

    AstroGrep

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. SearchMyFiles icon

    SearchMyFiles

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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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. dnGREP icon

    dnGREP

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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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. PowerGREP icon

    PowerGREP

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    PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.

    82 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • PowerGREP is the most popular commercial alternative to BlitzSearch.

    • PowerGREP is Paid and ProprietaryBlitzSearch is Free and Open Source
  10. Find in Files (quick search text) icon

    Find in Files (quick search text)

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    Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    • Find in Files (quick search text) is the most popular Web-based alternative to BlitzSearch.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietaryBlitzSearch is Free and Open Source
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