GNOME Search Tool Alternatives

GNOME Search Tool is described as 'Gnome-search-tool is a utility for finding files on your system. To perform a basic search, you can type a filename or a partial filename, with or without wildcards. To refine your search, you can apply additional search options' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to GNOME Search Tool for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Flathub and BSD apps. The best GNOME Search Tool alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like GNOME Search Tool are FSearch, Listary, DocFetcher and Agent Ransack.

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  1. Cross-platform desktop search application offering rapid full-text and regular expression search, recursive folder filtering, result highlighting, large file support, and a lightweight native UI built with Tauri and powered by ripgrep, ideal for complex codebases.

    80 Searchmonkey III alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. SearchMyFiles icon
     35 likes

    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 your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Spotlight icon
     22 likes

    Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on the system, it's designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer...

    102 Spotlight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. TextSeek icon
     10 likes

    TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool for Windows and MacOS. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. Direct Folders icon
     29 likes

    Access your folders from anywhere.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
  6. Locate32 icon
     83 likes

    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 words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches.

    73 Locate32 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. WinFindr icon
     5 likes

    WinFindr is an easy to use, yet powerful data searching tool for Windows. WinFindr allows you to search for files, folders, registry keys and registry entries with multiple search terms at the same time.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. EasyFind icon
     38 likes

    EasyFind is an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight to find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing.

    60 EasyFind alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. WizFile icon
     14 likes

    WizFile is a rapid file search utility. Search for files on your hard drive by name and get the results almost instantly.

    25 WizFile alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Indexed search tool enabling file and email discovery across local, shared, and network paths. Supports Office, PDF, and web formats. Outlook integration with preview windows and search result highlights. Features include filters, customizable indexing, and enterprise support.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Outlook
     
  11. SwiftSearch icon
     21 likes

    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 drives. Most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but...

    79 SwiftSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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