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 Listary, FSearch, DocFetcher and Recoll.

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  1. Scherlokk icon
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    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, autosave, advanced sorting, and multitasking.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. FileSearchy icon
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    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 other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3.  10 likes
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    Indexes filesystems allowing you to search for files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. KFind icon
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    KFind can be used as a standalone search tool, launched by KRunner or from your menu. It is also integrated into Konqueror as "Find File" in the "Tools" menu. It allows you to find files by name, type or content.

    16 KFind alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
     
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    A fast and next-generation desktop search and productivity tool for standard and virtual desktops, for private and enterprise search requirements. Finds documents, outlook archives and e-mails, contacts, appointments, folders, etc.

    76 Lookeen Desktop Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Outlook
     
  7. Find Any File icon
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    Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:

    84 Find Any File alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. fzy icon
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    fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Vim
     
  9. VX Search icon
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    VX Search is an automated, rule-based file search solution allowing one to search files by the file type, category, file name, size, location, extension, regular expressions, text and binary patterns, creation, modification and last access dates, EXIF tags, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Drill icon
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    Search files without indexing, but clever crawling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. CSearcher icon
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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.

    86 CSearcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. BareGrep icon
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    A free file finding and text searching tool:

    • Regular expression text search
    • High performance search algorithm
    • Wildcard and regular expression file search
    • Recursive directory search
    • Save, name and manage text search patterns
    • Interactive, incremental search
    • Ext.
    72 BareGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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