Google Desktop Alternatives
Google Desktop is described as 'The power of Google on your desktop. Hit ctrl twice and you are ready for a full Google search of you hard drive and networked drives you may have' and is a popular app in the Network & Admin category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Google Desktop for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad. The best alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Google Desktop are Rainmeter (Free, Open Source), Alfred (Freemium), Albert (Free, Open Source) and CerebroApp (Free, Open Source).
- File and folder lookup tool that searches across local, removable, and network mapped drives. View 91 alternatives to Everything
- Free
- Windows
"Everything" does not search in the files content, only in the files names. This is of course a major difference.It doesn't search in the files content. - Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity. View 30 alternatives to Rainmeter
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Rainmeter does not have a search feature and requires external plugins to imitate the sidebar - Alfred is a productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion. Search your Mac and the web, and control your Mac using custom actions with the Powerpack. View 76 alternatives to AlfredNo screenshots yet
- Freemium
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Omnilauncher for Linux to help you quickly find and run apps and do other useful things. View 33 alternatives to Albert
- Cerebro is an open source and free electron-based productivity software alternative to Alfred and Spotlight. It is focused on speed and good UI and UX. View 33 alternatives to CerebroApp
Discontinued
Latest release (0.3.2) was on December 2017.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. View 66 alternatives to Agent Ransack
- RecentX is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders, programs, websites & clipboard history. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster. View 257 alternatives to RecentX
- 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. View 69 alternatives to SwiftSearch
- Instantly find files, e-mails, and attachments stored anywhere on your PC with the free Copernic Desktop Search Home. View 64 alternatives to Copernic Desktop Search
- Full-text morphological search among documents and e-books of dozens of file types, including text in archives and disk images; on the your desktop, LAN, clouds (WebDAV) and removable drives. View 31 alternatives to Archivarius 3000