Alternatives to Ffind for all platforms with any license

Everything

"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially...

Free Windows
File Searching Data export/import File Searching Music discovery ... Portable Add a feature

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Locate32

Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other...

Free Open Source Windows
Auto Indexing File Searching Add a feature

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- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 3.1.11.8220a, released in May 2015, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Catfish

Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. Catfish is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The...

Free Open Source Linux GTK+ Xfce PyGTK
Autocompletion File Searching Add a feature

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FSearch

FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3. Note: The...

Free Open Source Linux
Indexed search Support for regular expressions File Searching Add a feature

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FileLocator

FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find. It is a free reduced functionality...

Freemium Windows
Support for 64 bit Support for Double-byte languages File Searching Support for Multiple threads ... Support for regular expressions Add a feature

25 Like
UltraSearch

UltraSearch searches files and folders on local NTFS drives and provides the results within just a few seconds. UltraSearch does NOT maintain an index which is stored...

Free Windows
File Searching Add a feature

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Searchmonkey

A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

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SearchMyFiles

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...

Free Windows
File Searching Local Search Non-Indexing search Portable ... USB drives Add a feature

26 Like
SwiftSearch

SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your...

Free Open Source Windows
File Searching Persistent Linux Add a feature

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FileSearchy

File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and...

Free Personal Windows
File Searching Local Search Add a feature

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- Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.43, released in October 2016, can be still downloaded from Majorgeeks
Indexer++

Indexer++ is probably the best open-source desktop files and folders search utility for Windows.

Free Open Source Windows
Command line interface File Searching Add a feature

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Find Any File

Find Any File is a program for Apple's Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.

Free Mac
File Searching Add a feature

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PowerGREP

Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain...

Commercial Windows
File Searching Portable Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature

19 Like
XSearch

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...

Free Windows
File Searching Non-Indexing search Add a feature

12 Like
CSearcher

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...

Free Windows
Duplicate File Finder Windows Explorer integration Export to CSV Export to HTML ... Export to XML File Searching Lightweight Non-Indexing search Portable Support for regular expressions Search History Add a feature

3 Like