regain - Search Engine Alternatives

regain - Search Engine is described as 'Search the contents of your files not just the file names. regain is a search engine similar to web search engines like Google, with the difference that you don't search the web, but your own files and documents. Using regain you can search through large portions of data (sev' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to regain - Search Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best regain - Search Engine alternative is FSearch, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like regain - Search Engine are YaCy, DocFetcher, Recoll and Agent Ransack.

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  1. DEVONagent icon
     10 likes

    Aggregates results from multiple engines, applies advanced Boolean and proximity operators, archives and exports findings, automates scheduled searches, extracts various content types, features a built-in browser, and supports detailed result exploration on Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. ANGRYsearch icon
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    Instant file search, showing results as you type.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. Indexed 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.

    78 Lookeen Desktop Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Outlook
     
  4. Find Any File icon
     16 likes

    Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:

    83 Find Any File alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. 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
     
  6. VX Search icon
     5 likes

    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. CSearcher icon
     5 likes

    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. BareGrep icon
     13 likes

    A free file finding and text searching tool:

    • Regular expression text search
    • High performance search algorithm
    • Wildcard and regular expression file search
    • Recursive directory search
    • Save, name and manage text search patterns
    • Interactive, incremental search
    • Ext.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. TaggTool icon
     7 likes

    The Personal File Tagging Utility. Tagg is a utility which locates your files based on simple labels you attach or tag on to your files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. SeekFast icon
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    SeekFast is a software tool for quick and easy text search on your computer. SeekFast can search in all Microsoft Word documents (doc), PDF, RTF and text files in a folder and its subfolders on your computer.

    6 SeekFast alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Tracker icon
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    Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  12. SMF is a file and file duplicate search tool that uses hashing (MD5, CRC32 or SHA1) to determine similarity. It has tons of search filter capabilities and a result reporting tool, with which you can sub-filter the result set according to your needs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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