Hunt & Gather AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like Hunt & Gather

Hunt & Gather is described as 'Hunt and Gather are two utilities for indexing and then searching files within a drive or directory designed to speed up searching files' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Hunt & Gather for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Web-based, Mac and Rust apps. The best Hunt & Gather alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Hunt & Gather are FSearch, fzf, Rapidshare Search Shared Files and FilePursuit.

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  1. Everything icon
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    An administrative tool that finds files and folders by filename instantly, displaying all files on local or network drives. Supports filters, 19 languages, portable usage, lightweight resource consumption, no tracking, and dark mode.

    115 Everything alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Everything is the most popular Windows alternative to Hunt & Gather.

    • Everything is the most popular free alternative to Hunt & Gather.

    • Everything is Free and ProprietaryHunt & Gather is Free and Open Source
    • Everything is Lightweight and Privacy focusedHunt & Gather is not according to our users
  2. FSearch icon
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    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.

    87 FSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • FSearch is the most popular Linux alternative to Hunt & Gather.

    • FSearch is the most popular Open Source alternative to Hunt & Gather.

    • FSearch is Free and Open SourceHunt & Gather is also Free and Open Source
    • FSearch is Lightweight and Privacy focusedHunt & Gather is not according to our users
  3. fzf icon
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    A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go.

    24 fzf alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vim
     
    • fzf is the most popular Mac alternative to Hunt & Gather.

    • fzf is Free and Open SourceHunt & Gather is also Free and Open Source
    • fzf is LightweightHunt & Gather is not according to our users
  4. FilePursuit icon
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    FilePursuit is intended to provide a very powerful file indexing and search service allowing you to find a file among millions of files located on web servers. Our database is daily replenished by our robots that crawl through free access internet resources.

    5 FilePursuit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. 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
     
  6.  10 likes
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    Indexes filesystems allowing you to search for files.

    34 mlocate alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
     
    • Find Any File is the most popular commercial alternative to Hunt & Gather.

    • Find Any File is Paid and ProprietaryHunt & Gather is Free and Open Source
  9. Drill icon
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    Search files without indexing, but clever crawling.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. 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
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Blazing fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Rust
     
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