Open Source Bulk Rename Utility Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Bulk Rename Utility for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best open source Windows alternative is Ant Renamer. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Bulk Rename Utility and many of them are open source and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source Windows alternatives to Bulk Rename Utility are Rename Master, F2, PowerRenameExt and Simplest File Renamer.

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  1. Ant Renamer icon

    Ant Renamer

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    Free, open-source tool for bulk renaming files and folders, with Unicode support, rule-based modifications, EXIF and MP3 tag integration, regular expressions, case changes, extension edits, randomization, list input, preview of changes, and no content alteration.

    78 Ant Renamer alternatives

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    • Most users think Ant Renamer is a great Bulk Rename Utility alternative.

    • Ant Renamer is the most popular Windows alternative to Bulk Rename Utility.

    • Ant Renamer is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Bulk Rename Utility.

    • Ant Renamer is Free and Open SourceBulk Rename Utility is Free Personal and Proprietary
  2. Rename Master icon

    Rename Master

     19 likes

    Rename Master is a freeware utility designed to rename multiple files with a just few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  4. F2 icon

    F2

     11 likes
    • F2 helps you organise your filesystem through batch renaming so that your files and directories can have a consistent naming scheme.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. PowerRenameExt icon

    PowerRenameExt

     3 likes

    PowerRenameExt is a cross-platform bulk renaming tool conceived as a powered-up version of Microsoft's PowerRename tool (part of the PowerToys suite), with extra added functionality such as the ability to use functions in order to compute the replacements, which in turn...

    48 PowerRenameExt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  6. Simplest File Renamer icon

    Simplest File Renamer

     9 likes

    Rename your files directly or with your favorite text editor, making use of all your 1337 keyboard shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Simple to use interface - that's all there is.
     
  7. Siren icon

    Siren

     12 likes

    The differential of this program is that it can extract information from audio (tags), images (EXIF and IPTC info), video, and many other file types, and use this information when renaming the files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    Renaming JPG files with the date and time from the EXIF information. Note all the other EXIF information that can be used as well.
     

  9. Métamorphose v2

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    Métamorphose v2 is a batch renamer, a program to rename large sets of files and folders quickly... Created by Ianaré Sévi.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. RegexRenamer icon

    RegexRenamer

     6 likes

    RegexRenamer is a powerful but simple user-friendly graphical tool used to batch rename files using regular expressions. A regular expression (or regex) is simply text that contains special characters that together defines a pattern that can be used to match text, in this case...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  11. Métamorphose icon

    Métamorphose

     21 likes

    Métamorphose is a batch renamer, a program to rename large sets of files and folders quickly and easily.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Solaris
    • OpenSolaris
    Picker panel, Vista
     
  12. Renamer by EatMe icon

    Renamer by EatMe

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    Renamer by EatMe - Rename / move up to 20.000 files at once with options easy to set in the interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
    Renamer by EatMe - renaming options - screenshot
     
  13. Multi File Renamer icon

    Multi File Renamer

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    MultiFileRename is a program that can easily rename multiple files within the same directory. And repeat the same procedure(s) on different directories and at a later time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  14. RegName icon

    RegName

     3 likes

    RegName is a batch file rename utility based on regular expressions mainly designed to rename entire collections of files based on sequential patterns.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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