Index Your Files AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like Index Your Files

Index Your Files is described as 'Allows you to search through all your files or folders on local or networked drives without remote admin rights (as necessary for the similar app "Everything"). Searching can be done by name, date, size, location etc' and is a File Search utility in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Index Your Files for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and Flathub apps. The best Index Your Files alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Index Your Files are Keypirinha, FSearch, DocFetcher and GCstar.

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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

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    • Windows
     
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    • Most users think Everything is a great Index Your Files alternative.

    • Everything is the most popular Windows alternative to Index Your Files.

    • Everything is the most popular free alternative to Index Your Files.

    • Everything is Free and ProprietaryIndex Your Files is also Free and Proprietary
    • Everything is Lightweight and Privacy focusedIndex Your Files is not according to our users
  2. FSearch icon
     75 likes
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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

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
    • FSearch is the most popular Linux alternative to Index Your Files.

    • FSearch is the most popular Open Source alternative to Index Your Files.

    • FSearch is Free and Open SourceIndex Your Files is Free and Proprietary
    • FSearch is Lightweight and Privacy focusedIndex Your Files is not according to our users
  3. DocFetcher icon
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    DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    129 DocFetcher alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • DocFetcher is the most popular Mac alternative to Index Your Files.

    • DocFetcher is Free and Open SourceIndex Your Files is Free and Proprietary
    • DocFetcher is Privacy focusedIndex Your Files is not according to our users
  4. GCstar icon
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    Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).

    100 GCstar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Recoll icon
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    This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.

    44 Recoll alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  6. Agent Ransack icon
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    Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    77 Agent Ransack alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  7. Clapgrep icon
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    Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  8. Filezo icon
     107 likes
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    Filezo (Formerly known as RecentX) is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders & programs. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

    299 Filezo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Filezo is the most popular commercial alternative to Index Your Files.

    • Filezo is Paid and ProprietaryIndex Your Files is Free and Proprietary
  9. SearchMyFiles icon
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    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
     
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    Indexes and quickly searches over 170 file types and emails, including attachments and multimedia files, on desktops, external and network drives, as well as cloud environments, offering sub-second results and a 75,000 file index size limit in the free version.

    83 Copernic Desktop Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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