HoudahSpot Alternatives

Apps similar to HoudahSpot include Everything, which is free. Other options are Cling Fuzzy Finder, Finder, Filezo and FileSeek. There's no shortage of File Search Utilities like HoudahSpot, with more than 25 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and iPhone.

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  1. Yep icon
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    With Yep 2, you can easily track over 100,000 documents like PDFs, iWork and Office documents, use Quick Look or Yeps built-in magnifier to view documents, file documents automatically into a date-based folder system within your Documents folder, create text files from...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2009

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  2. File Find icon
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    A macOS file search utility that helps you find files easier.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2023

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  3. Lisorto icon
     1 like

    Sorts messy Mac folders like Downloads on-device, names scans, screenshots and photos by what they show, and finds files by any word inside.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • New

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. Search a comprehensive, centralized cache of all text found in your documents and other text-based files, including database and package files.

    46 FoxTrot Professional Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2017

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. File buddy icon
     3 likes

    File Buddy is best thought of as a collection of tools for managing the vast number of files and folders found on your hard drive. A complete list of what File Buddy can do is too extensive to list in its entirety, but the following lists many of the things you can do with it...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2014

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. Tembo icon
     6 likes

    Tembo: Easy and Effective Searching

    Tembo is an efficient search tool that is based upon the Spotlight engine. The job of Tembo is to make searching (and finding) of files, mail messages, bookmarks, ... as easy as possible.

    Grouped Search Results

    At first sight you will find.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Search Text In Files is an easy-to-use file search application for your computer. Search through plain-text files and PDF files using simple queries and this tool will quickly list the requested files.

    63 Search Text In Files alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2023

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. Magican File icon
     2 likes

    Magican File is a professional program for Mac OS X that let you search and manage files on your disks.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an eye. At that this point your options are limited however.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2018

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Spotlight
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  11. TaskSurfer icon
     3 likes

    TaskSurfer gives you all of the tools you need to manage things the way you want. Stick things in folders, use contexts to decide where and when to work on stuff, or tag it with a location and let your Mac sort it out for you.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2010

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. Invantive BusinessDrive enables you to work with documents stored in (cloud) applications and databases as if they were stored on a network disk.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2016

    Platforms

    • Windows
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