Searchmonkey III Alternatives

Searchmonkey III is described as 'Cross-platform desktop search tool with lightning-fast full-text and regex capabilities, recursive folder filtering, result highlighting, and open source architecture' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Searchmonkey III for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Flathub and Microsoft Outlook apps. The best Searchmonkey III alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Searchmonkey III are FSearch, DocFetcher, Agent Ransack and Recoll.

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  1. Search Text In Files is an 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. BareGrep icon
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    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.
    72 BareGrep alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Blink grep icon
     4 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Omni Search icon
     5 likes

    Omni searches your local files by meaning - text, code, PDFs, images, audio, and video in one vector space, in any language. Runs on-device on Apple silicon. Private, offline.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. liquidFOLDERS icon
     4 likes

    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
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. Terrier icon
     Like

    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
     
  9. Conjure Search icon
     12 likes

    A 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 type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. EasyGrep icon
     2 likes

    EasyGrep is an easy to use Windows grep software which allows you to search within files on your computer. Supports text based searches as well as regex searches. Supports Notepad++.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. regexxer icon
     8 likes

    regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  12. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
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