Search Text In Files Alternatives

Search Text In Files is described as 'Easy-to-use file search application for your computer. Search through plain-text files and PDF files using simple queries and this tool will quickly list the requested files' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Search Text In Files for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Search Text In Files alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Search Text In Files are Listary, FSearch, DocFetcher and Recoll.

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  1. Beagle icon
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    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
     
  2. Blink grep icon
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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    A Linux version of Everything Search Engine. Support fast NTFS indexing. Show instant results as you type.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Search a comprehensive, centralized cache of all text found in your documents and other text-based files, including database and package files.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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
     
  6. Ambar icon
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    Ambar is a smart documents archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  7. liquidFOLDERS icon
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    liquidFOLDERS stores all files in a separate area of your computer we call "store". A store does not have a fixed directory tree (let alone one that you'll have to manage yourself), but is one big thing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
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    Exalead Desktop Search Instantly locates any document stored on local resources like internal and external hard drives, network drives and USB keys .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. hunText icon
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    hunText is a powerful file manager with full text search enabled, with which you can manage your device and cloud content and do a full text search on all the files at one place.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
    • hunText is the most popular Android alternative to Search Text In Files.

    • hunText is Free and ProprietarySearch Text In Files is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. Terrier icon
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    Terrier is a highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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    **FileFlow ** is a powerful yet lightweight file search tool for Windows that lets you find documents by searching inside the content — not by filenames.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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