OpenGrok Alternatives

OpenGrok is described as 'Source code search and cross reference engine. It helps programmers to search, cross-reference and navigate source code trees' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to OpenGrok for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Self-Hosted, Windows, Linux and Docker apps. The best OpenGrok alternative is searchcode.com, which is free. Other great apps like OpenGrok are Source Insight, Blink grep, grep.app and OctoLinker.

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  1. searchcode.com icon

    searchcode.com

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    searchcode is a free source code and documentation search engine. API documentation, code snippets and open source (free sofware) repositories are indexed and searchable. Most information is presented in such a way that you shouldn't need to click through, but of course you...

    11 searchcode.com alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    Old home page
     

    • searchcode.com is the most popular Web-based alternative to OpenGrok.

    • searchcode.com is the most popular free alternative to OpenGrok.

    • searchcode.com is Free and ProprietaryOpenGrok is Free and Open Source
  2. Source Insight icon

    Source Insight

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    Source Insight is an advanced code editor and browser with built-in analysis for C/C++, C#, and Java programs.

    21 Source Insight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Comments about Source Insight as an Alternative to OpenGrok
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    Negative
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    works on windows only, not web based

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Source Insight is the most popular Windows alternative to OpenGrok.

    • Source Insight is the most popular commercial alternative to OpenGrok.

    • Source Insight is Paid and ProprietaryOpenGrok is Free and Open Source
  4. Blink grep icon

    Blink grep

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    GUI of indexed grep for source code, files locator, search and replace. Switch differnt projects and start searching. Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Blink grep is the most popular Linux alternative to OpenGrok.

    • Blink grep is the most popular Open Source alternative to OpenGrok.

    • Blink grep is Free and Open SourceOpenGrok is also Free and Open Source
  5. grep.app icon

    grep.app

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    grep.app searches code from over a half million public repositories on GitHub.

    11 grep.app alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. OctoLinker icon

    OctoLinker

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    OctoLinker is a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Opera which allows you to navigate through code on GitHub more efficiently.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
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  7. Text Sherlock icon

    Text Sherlock

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    Provides a fast, easy to install and use search engine for text but, mostly for source code. OpenGrok requires to much time to install (though it may be worth it for some). Sherlock will give you a much easier setup, a text indexer, and a web app interface for searching.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    1

    Has a decent web interface and is easy to use.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Text Sherlock is the most popular Mac & Self-Hosted alternative to OpenGrok.

    • Text Sherlock is Free and Open SourceOpenGrok is also Free and Open Source
  9. Google Code Search icon

    Google Code Search

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    Google Code Search allows you to search online public code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. DXR icon

    DXR

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    DXR is a code search and navigation tool aimed at making sense of large projects like Firefox. It supports full-text and regex searches as well as structural queries like "Find all the callers of this function.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. Sourcebot icon

    Sourcebot

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    Blazingly fast code search. Deployed as a single Docker image. Search million+ lines of code in your GitHub and GitLab repositories.

    49 Sourcebot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  12. LXR icon

    LXR

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    LXR Cross Referencer, usually known as LXR, is a general-purpose source code indexer and cross-referencer that provides web-based browsing of source code, with links to the definition and usage of any identifier.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  13. CodeNavigator icon

    CodeNavigator

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    CodeNavigator is a developer's tool for browsing source code using CScope. It can help you to understand the structure of the code very easily and also include syntax highlighting support for many coding languages.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPad
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    • CodeNavigator is the most popular iPad alternative to OpenGrok.

    • CodeNavigator is Paid and ProprietaryOpenGrok is Free and Open Source
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