Pinot Alternatives

Pinot is described as 'Personal search and metasearch for the Free Desktop' and is an app in the online services category. There are five alternatives to Pinot for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Pinot alternative is Recoll, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pinot are Tracker, Beagle, strigi and Terrier.

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  1. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
    • Recoll is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Pinot.

    • Recoll is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pinot.

    • Recoll is Free and Open SourcePinot is also Free and Open Source
    • Recoll is Lightweight and Privacy focusedPinot is not according to our users
  2. 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
     
  3. Beagle icon
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    Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever youre looking for.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    a small daemon that can index information using the new crawler.

    • very fast crawling
    • very small memory footprint
    • no hammering of the system
    • pluggable backend, currently clucene and hyperestraier, sqlite3 and xapian are in the works
    • communication between daemon and searc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Terrier icon
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    Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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