Pinot Alternatives

Apps similar to Pinot include Recoll, which is free and open source. Other options are Tracker, Beagle, strigi and Terrier. In total there are five File Search Utilities like Pinot for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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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.

    59 Recoll alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  2. Tracker icon
     5 likes

    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.

    39 Tracker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
    Good alternative?
     
  3. Beagle icon
     3 likes

    Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever youre looking for.

    54 Beagle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  4.  1 like

    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
    Good alternative?
     
  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
    Good alternative?
     
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