Cathy is described as 'An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CDs, DVDs or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media' and is a Media Manager in the video & movies category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Cathy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best Cathy alternative is GCstar, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cathy are Agent Ransack, Virtual Volumes View, Clapgrep and FileLocator.
Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).
GCstar is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cathy.
GCstar is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cathy.
Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!
VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can...
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…
FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.
Indexes and quickly searches over 170 file types and emails, including attachments and multimedia files, on desktops, external and network drives, as well as cloud environments, offering sub-second results and a 75,000 file index size limit in the free version.
Copernic Desktop Search is the most popular commercial alternative to Cathy.
TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool for Windows and MacOS. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats.
DiskCatalogMaker is a simple disk management tool which catalogs disks and folders.
A cross-platform GUI file cataloging program with extensive customization options to suit user preferences. Highly optimized for multi-core parallel search speed, data integrity, and repository portability. Librer can import data from "Where Is It?", "Cathy" and "VVV"
XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the...
AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user to always know exactly how something was named or written.
Katalog is an application to manage catalogs of disks and files to search and get statistics.
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It works for PC, Mac, Linux & Portable. I need to find files across multiple computers, volumes, & disks regardless of what computer OS I'm using. This looks like my only option. (I sure wish it had a 'grep' type of searching.)