Recoll Alternatives

Recoll is described as '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' and is a popular File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Recoll for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Xfce apps. The best Recoll alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Recoll are DocFetcher, Cling Fuzzy Finder, Clapgrep and Catfish.

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  1. VX Search icon
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    VX Search is an automated, rule-based file search solution allowing one to search files by the file type, category, file name, size, location, extension, regular expressions, text and binary patterns, creation, modification and last access dates, EXIF tags, etc.

    74 VX Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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
     
  3.  5 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Beagle icon
     3 likes

    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
     
  5. File Brain icon
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    File Brain is a desktop application that helps you find files instantly using natural language. Instead of remembering exact filenames, you can ask questions like "flight ticket invoice", and File Brain uses semantic search to understand the meaning and show the...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  6. Advanced 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
     
  7. CSearcher icon
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    CSearcher 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Pinot icon
     1 like

    Personal search and metasearch for the Free Desktop

    Features

    • advanced queries (probabilistic search, boolean filters, wildcards, ranges on date, time and size).
    • language detection.
    • insensitive to diacritics (accents).
    • Chinese, Japanese and Korean support. *.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. Find files fast across folders, drives, disks and machines and emails in MS Outlook, find duplicates. Attach labels, bookmarks and comments, automatic backup, synchronize, messaging. Tag Web pages while downloading. Share labels with others.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. FileSearchEX icon
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    FileSearchEX is the no nonsense file search utility for Windows 7 and higher. It offers the simplified search interface like Windows XP yet in an updated and modern fashion. Unlike other search tools, FileSearchEX works well with limited account permissions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. gnome-search-tool is a utility for finding files on your system. To perform a basic search, you can type a filename or a partial filename, with or without wildcards. To refine your search, you can apply additional search options.

    48 GNOME Search Tool alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
  12. Local-first desktop app for Mac offering plain English search across file names, metadata, and document contents. Uses semantic ranking, previews, live indexing, and keeps all processing local for privacy. Optional API-based semantic search can be enabled.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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