Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
Pipy Alternatives
Pipy has been discontinued. Similar apps include Everything, which is free. Other options are TagSpaces, FSearch, Listary and DocFetcher. There's no shortage of File Search Utilities like Pipy, with more than 25 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux and self-hosting.
Alternatives list
90 Lookeen Desktop Search alternativesIndexed search tool enabling file and email discovery across local, shared, and network paths. Supports Office, PDF, and web formats. Outlook integration with preview windows and search result highlights. Features include filters, customizable indexing, and enterprise support.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Microsoft Outlook
Germany
EU
+1
158 Scherlokk alternativesPerforms high-speed file searches using a proprietary engine across built-in, portable, and network drives, including hidden and non-indexed files, supports detailed result filtering, provides file comparison, hex editing, autosave, advanced sorting, and multitasking.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Thailand
+3
Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess 😉.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.
Platforms
- Windows
United States
AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user to always know exactly how something was named or written.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
+1
83 CSearcher alternativesCSearcher 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.
Platforms
- Windows
Portugal- EU
+5
69 MasterSeeker alternativesMasterSeeker is software to search and find files in your pc lightning fast.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Spain- EU
X1 offers next generation enterprise search, eDiscovery and desktop search for traditional and virtual environments
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
+3
260 Advanced Recent Access alternativesAdvanced 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
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- United States
Provides search across local files, Outlook emails, network shares, and cloud drives, offers secure peer-to-peer sharing, secure real-time messaging, advanced search profiles, free access, multi-view results, query refinement, and quick keyboard shortcuts.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Microsoft Outlook
Norway
+7
- 59 NTFS-Search alternatives
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.
Platforms
- Windows
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