PowerGREP AlternativesFile Search Utilities and other similar apps like PowerGREP

PowerGREP is described as 'Powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to PowerGREP for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best PowerGREP alternative is FSearch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PowerGREP are DocFetcher, Agent Ransack, Clapgrep and Cardinal File Search.

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  1. FSearch icon
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    FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3.

    91 FSearch alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  2. DocFetcher icon
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    DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

    138 DocFetcher alternatives

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    DocFetcher vs PowerGREP Comments
    Guest
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    regex is a must for a grep tool. PowerGREP is a powerful tool while DocFetcher is a very simple tools and not comparable.

    Constantine Dokolas
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    DocFetcher does not support regular expressions (regex) for text search

    • DocFetcher is Free and Open SourcePowerGREP is Paid and Proprietary
    • DocFetcher is Privacy focusedPowerGREP is not according to our users
  3. Agent Ransack icon
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    Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    90 Agent Ransack alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  4. Clapgrep icon
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    Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile
     
  5. Quick macOS file searching with substring, prefix, suffix, exact, and path-mixed patterns, case-sensitive or regex search modes, instant language switching, keyboard shortcuts, Quick Look previews, Finder integration, clipboard copy, and open-source code.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
     
  6. grepWin icon
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    grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context menu to easily search selected folders.

    37 grepWin alternatives

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Chocolatey
     
  7. grep icon
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    grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

    48 grep alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
    • Linux Mobile
     
  8. AnyTXT Searcher is a powerful local data full-text search engine, just like a local disk Google search engine. It is your ideal desktop search tool.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  9. Cross-platform desktop search application offering rapid full-text and regular expression search, recursive folder filtering, result highlighting, large file support, and a lightweight native UI built with Tauri and powered by ripgrep, ideal for complex codebases.

    84 Searchmonkey III alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. dnGREP icon
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    dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...

    58 dnGREP alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
  11. SearchMyFiles icon
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    SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...

    118 SearchMyFiles alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  12. Omni Search icon
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    Semantic desktop tool searches text, code, PDF, image, audio, and video files by meaning in one vector space for macOS; works entirely offline, supports multi-language queries and file-to-file search, exposes a private API, and keeps data local for privacy.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
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