Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
+2
Recoll Alternatives
One of the most popular alternatives to Recoll is Everything, which is free. Other popular alternatives are DocFetcher, Cling Fuzzy Finder, Hister and Clapgrep. There's no shortage of File Search Utilities like Recoll, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone.
Alternatives list
- 78 DeskRule alternatives
GUI of indexed grep for source code, files locator, search and replace. Switch differnt projects and start searching. Drag and drop of filenames to your favourite editor.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
65 Conjure Search alternativesA fast, lightweight, customizable search alternative for Windows 7 that also allows for deletion and renaming. Easily locate files on mapped network drives using Conjure, expedite your searches by including folders you need and excluding ones you never use.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
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
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
S
74 VX Search alternativesVX 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.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
Cyprus
EU
60 Mira Search alternativesLocal-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
- Free
- Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United Kingdom
+1
- 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
N 
54 Beagle alternativesBeagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever youre looking for.
Platforms
- Linux
- United States
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
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
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
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