NTFS-Search Alternatives

NTFS-Search is described as 'This tool enables users to search their NTFS formatted harddrives within seconds. It uses the MFT (master file table) of NTFS to search for files very fast' and is a File Search utility in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to NTFS-Search for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best NTFS-Search alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like NTFS-Search are FSearch, DocFetcher, Recoll and UltraSearch.

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  1. 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
     
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3.  1 like
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    TheSearchMan is a free tool which searches your hard drives for files. It is:

    1. Blazingly fast. (Searches 50 GB drive in 1 second!)
    2. Small. (Just 35 KB download!)
    3. Multi-threaded. (Your computer never hangs!)
    4. Portable(which means No Installations Required!)
    5. Very simple.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. AndroSearch icon
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    Search INSIDE documents/files on your device like no other files manager/finder do.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
    • AndroSearch is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to NTFS-Search.

    • AndroSearch is Free and ProprietaryNTFS-Search is Free and Open Source
    • AndroSearch is LightweightNTFS-Search is not according to our users
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    Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Find in Files (quick search text) is the most popular Web-based alternative to NTFS-Search.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietaryNTFS-Search is Free and Open Source
  6. Tracker icon
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    Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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    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

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard

    SMF is a file and file duplicate search tool that uses hashing (MD5, CRC32 or SHA1) to determine similarity. It has tons of search filter capabilities and a result reporting tool, with which you can sub-filter the result set according to your needs.

    64 SMF – Search my Files alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Effective File Search (EFS) is a powerful but easy to use search tool. Search any files on your computer or local network with this effective software. EFS is a real replacement for the Windows Search utility. You can save a lot of time with this excellent file search tool.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    "InSight Desktop Search" is a search engine that keeps track of all the files in your system and makes sure that you can access your files/folders easily and quickly. It is more than just a search engine, it’s also a music jukebox,that features ability to search for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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