Elyse AlternativesFile Managers and other similar apps like Elyse

Elyse is described as 'Because files can fit in many different categories and contexts, a tagging approach to managing them, like the kind we have for photos, bookmarks, and blog posts, makes sense. Elyse provides tag management for your files, with up to 30 tags in the free version' and is a File Manager in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Elyse for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Microsoft Edge apps. The best Elyse alternative is TagSpaces, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Elyse are Tabbles, Filezo, Where Is It? and Keepmark.

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  1. TagSpaces icon

    TagSpaces

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    Privacy-first, multi-device organizer for files and folders with customizable tags, color labels, note editing in markdown or HTML, Kanban boards, S3 object storage support, web page clipping, vendor lock-in free filename tagging, open source option, and multi-format preview.

    98 TagSpaces alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Cross-platform file tagging
     

    • TagSpaces is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Elyse.

    • TagSpaces is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Elyse.

    • TagSpaces is Freemium and Open SourceElyse is Freemium and Proprietary
    • TagSpaces is Privacy focusedElyse is not according to our users
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    Tabbles

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    Uses a visual, tag-based system to categorize files and folders without moving or duplicating them, enabling ad hoc combination of tags for intuitive search and retrieval, supporting large document collections and visual category management for greater flexibility.

    35 Tabbles alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Outlook
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  4. Filezo icon

    Filezo

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    Filezo (Formerly known as RecentX) is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders & programs. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

    298 Filezo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Filezo is the most popular commercial alternative to Elyse.

    • Filezo is Paid and ProprietaryElyse is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Where Is It? icon

    Where Is It?

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    WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs and DVDs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, remote file servers, or...

    39 Where Is It? alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Where Is It? screenshot 1
     
  6. Keepmark icon

    Keepmark

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    Keepmark is a desktop, privacy first documents organizer. You can organize with it your files, email, bookmarks, tasks, news, and other resources. Its available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

    96 Keepmark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Use Keepmark to Read news
     
  7. Stagsi icon

    Stagsi

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    Hackable SQLite-based tagging, any file format, with scripts and C# plugins, powerful search query language, 100k+ files managed with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Tagstoo icon

    Tagstoo

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    Software to tag folders and files, with multimedia and epubs preview. Tag with avariety of shapes. Export/import data to a file. Possible to build up very specific searches.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • SourceForge
    • Softpedia
    Various tag Shapes to select: Various shapes are available to select, and later are equally easy to edit and change the tags that you created if you need. Tags positions are interchangeable.
     
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    Docspell

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    Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess 😉.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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    Tagging for Windows

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    Use Tags within the Windows File Explorer. Tag any kind of file or folder. View the tagged items in a virtual folder. Combine tags for looking up files with multiple tags. Use the tags in the Open/Save Dialogs as well.

    11 Tagging for Windows alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Tagging for Windows screenshot 1
     
  12. TagFlow icon

    TagFlow

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    TagFlow is a simple, intelligent and efficient files manager based on tags. It allows you to easily organize, find, share and backup all your files by tagging them. Organize and find your files is easily and will improve your file organisation.

    21 TagFlow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    TagFlow screenshot 1
     
  13. Tag That Photo icon

    Tag That Photo

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    Automatically tag faces in photos and identify them on your local windows system, without sending data to the cloud.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. Leap icon

    Leap

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    With Leap you find things based on your natural memory of that file. “Hhmm it was a big photoshop file of a basketball court” or “Something I tagged important” or “A word document somewhere in my documents folder”.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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