QuickSearch

QuickSearch helps you find important files quickly and easily. It indexes the folders you choose, names and text contents, and shows ranked results with every keystroke. It's free, open source, and yours to keep.

Results while you type

Every keystroke cancels the previous search and starts a new one. When combined with a lightning fast search engine, you know if you have the results you want before you even finish typing.

Searches inside files

Plain text, PDFs, Office documents, even audio tags and photo EXIF data. Matches show highlighted snippets so you can tell it's the right file before opening it.

Stays fresh on its own

Filesystem watchers pick up new and changed files as they happen, with periodic reindexing as a safety net. You never have to think about the index. Forgives typeos

One checkbox turns on fuzzy matching. Typing repot still finds your reports. Exact matches and same-capitalization always rank first.

Private by design

Everything stays on your machine. Optionally encrypt the index with a password, so even the search database is protected if someone gets a copy. Terminal, too

The same search works from the command line: quicksearch "quarterly budget" prints ranked paths, ready for pipes and scripts.