Catfish Alternatives

Catfish is described as 'Handy file searching tool for Linux and Unix. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+3. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Catfish for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and BSD apps. The best Catfish alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Catfish are FSearch, DocFetcher, Recoll and Cling Fuzzy Finder.

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  1. Beagle icon

    Beagle

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    Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever youre looking for.

    54 Beagle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. CSearcher icon

    CSearcher

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    CSearcher is a simple and fast free non-indexing search program.

    Searching computer files and folders is rather common for every PC user daily. Using standard Windows Explorer solution for this has many disavantages: it's slow, uses lots of RAM and many times it does not fin.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Ffind icon

    Ffind

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    Ffind — search a file hierarchy.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    Scherlokk

    Performs high-speed file searches using a proprietary engine across built-in, portable, and network drives, including hidden and non-indexed files, supports detailed result filtering, provides file comparison, hex editing, autosa...

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  6. DawnlightSearch icon

    DawnlightSearch

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    A Linux version of Everything Search Engine. Support fast NTFS indexing. Show instant results as you type.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. Multiple file search & replace icon

    Multiple file search & replace

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    Make a change immediately in many files, add new text or new links in various webpages, change descriptions, key words and other metatags, repair inactive links, and redesign and optimize pages for search...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. Terrier icon

    Terrier

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    Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  10. Advanced Recent Access icon

    Advanced Recent Access

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    Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.

    263 Advanced Recent Access alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Search Text In Files icon

    Search Text In Files

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    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 (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. NTFS-Search

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    This tool enables users to search their NTFS formatted harddrives within seconds. It uses the MFT (master file table) of NTFS to search for files very fast.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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