Alternatives to SearchMyFiles for all platforms with any license

Everything

"Everything" is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows. Unlike Windows search "Everything" initially...

Free Windows
File-search Data export/import File-search Portable Add a feature

802 Like
dupeGuru

dupeGuru is a free and open source tool to find duplicate files on your computer. It can scan either filenames or contents. The filename scan features a fuzzy matching...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Duplicate Files Finder Local based GUI Support for Hotkeys Add a feature

79 Like
- Discontinued The project is currently unmaintained. Last version, 4.0.3, released in November 2016, can be still downloaded from the official website and Github.
DocFetcher

DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
Search-in-files File-search Indexed search Portability on many OS ... Portable Semantic Search Add a feature

78 Like
Agent Ransack

Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the...

Freemium Windows
Context Menu extension File-search Outlook search Add a feature

86 Like
RecentX

RecentX is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders, programs, websites & clipboard history. It automatically remembers your...

Commercial Windows
Program Launcher File-search Bookmark History Clipboard monitoring ... Drag n drop Duplicate Files Finder Windows Explorer integration File tagging Folder-Search Folder Tagging Indexed search Local Search Portable Image Preview Tabbed interface Tag based Add a feature

92 Like
Locate32

Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other...

Free Open Source Windows
Auto Indexing File-search Add a feature

78 Like
- Discontinued The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 3.1.11.8220a, released in May 2015, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Catfish

Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. Catfish is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The...

Free Open Source Linux GTK+ Xfce PyGTK
Autocompletion File-search Add a feature

26 Like
FileLocator

FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find. It is a free reduced functionality...

Freemium Windows
Support for 64 bit Support for Double-byte languages File-search Support for Multiple threads ... Support for regular expressions Add a feature

25 Like
Searchmonkey

A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly...

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD
No features added Add a feature

21 Like
- Discontinued Not updated since May 2010. Website doesn't work either.
EasyFind

Think Mac OS Xs Spotlight could use some help? Download EasyFind, an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight and find files, folders, or contents in any file without...

Free Mac OS X
File-search Add a feature

26 Like
UltraSearch

UltraSearch searches files and folders on local NTFS drives and provides the results within just a few seconds. UltraSearch does NOT maintain an index which is stored...

Free Windows
File-search Add a feature

15 Like
FSearch

FSearch is a fast file search utility for GNU/Linux operating systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine. It's written in C and based on GTK+3. Note: The...

Free Open Source Linux
Indexed search Support for regular expressions File-search Add a feature

18 Like
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Cathy

An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CDs, DVDs or even diskettes), hard disks or...

Free Windows
No features added Add a feature

29 Like
- Discontinued Last version to v2.31.3 in 2013-10-03 still for windows xp
SwiftSearch

SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your...

Free Open Source Windows
File-search Persistent Linux Add a feature

12 Like
FileSearchy

File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and...

Free Personal Windows
File-search Local Search Add a feature

35 Like
- Discontinued The official website is no longer available. Last version, 1.43, released in October 2016, can be still downloaded from Majorgeeks