SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids Alternatives

SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids is described as 'The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an eye. At that this point your options are limited however' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and BSD apps. The best SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids are Keypirinha, Alfred, DocFetcher and Raycast.

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The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an eye. At that this point your options are limited however.

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SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids alternatives page was last updated Dec 21, 2023
  1. Spotlight icon
     20 likes

    Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on the system, it's designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer...

    79 Spotlight alternatives
    Spotlight screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Spotlight Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Indexed search
    3.  File preview
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  2. Copernic Desktop Search icon
     36 likes

    Instantly find documents, e-mails(full text), attachments, videos, pictures, music(metadata), and other types of files(file names). The size limit of the index of the free version is 75,000.

    77 Copernic Desktop Search alternatives
    Copernic Desktop Search screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Copernic Desktop Search Features

    1.  OCR
    2.  Outlook search
    3.  PDF OCR
    4.  Indexed search
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  3. XMenu icon
     5 likes

    XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and snippets. Launch any application, or insert text snippets or URLs into your email messages or Pages documents with a single...

    75 XMenu alternatives
    XMenu screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Ad-free
    3.  No Tracking
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Favorites
    6.  Sits in the MenuBar
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  4. TextSeek icon
     7 likes

    TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool for Windows and MacOS. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats.

    97 TextSeek alternatives
    TextSeek screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Full-Text Search
    2.  Portable
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  No registration required
    7.  In-document search
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  5. Krunner icon
     14 likes

    KRunner is the launcher built into the Plasma desktop.

    83 Krunner alternatives
    Krunner screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes
    2.  Privacy focused
    3.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Support for scripting
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  Works Offline
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  Launcher
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  6. Scherlokk icon
     6 likes

    Scherlokk is a lightning fast file search utility build for precise and reliable search of every file which meets the search criteria.

    156 Scherlokk alternatives
    Scherlokk screenshot 1

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused
    2.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Portable
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Built-in viewer
    5.  No Tracking
    6.  Full-Text Search
    7.  Dark Mode
    8.  No registration required
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  7. Spotter icon
     6 likes

    Productivity tool that allows to launch everything (e.g. switch the next song, connect Bluetooth device, set a timer, etc.) so you can stay focused on your current task.

    58 Spotter alternatives
    Spotter screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Spotter Features

    1.  Launcher
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  8. Zazu icon
     15 likes

    Zazu is a new open source productivity app, that allows developers to be in the drivers seat. Unlike other solutions, there is no built-in integrations, so every plugin has the full scope of what Zazu has to offer.

    38 Zazu alternatives
    Zazu screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Zazu Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  Launcher
    3.  Electron based
    Discontinued

    Repo archived by authors. No updates or releases, and no recent commits. Based on obsolete versions of underlying tools/platform.

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  9. 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.

    82 CSearcher alternatives
    CSearcher screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    3.  Support for regular expressions
    4.  Search History
    5.  Non-Indexing search
    6.  Export to HTML
    7.  Export to XML
    8.  Export to CSV
    Discontinued

    This software hasn't been updated since October 2018.

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  10. Unleash.so icon
     4 likes

    Your productivity level just sprouted wings. Find what you need easily, across your cloud services from one place. Formerly known as ChaseApp.

    47 Unleash.so alternatives
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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Unleash.so Features

    1.  In-app File Search
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  11. File Find icon
     1 like

    A macOS file search utility that helps you find files easier.

    52 File Find alternatives
    File Find screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. Folder Peek icon
     2 likes

    Folder Peek lets you put one or more folders in the menu bar.

    59 Folder Peek alternatives
    Folder Peek screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Folder Peek Features

    1.  Folder Hierarchy
    2.  Sits in the MenuBar
    3.  Sorting by folder
    4.  Nested Folders
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