SearchMyFiles Alternatives

SearchMyFiles is described as 'Non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to SearchMyFiles for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best SearchMyFiles alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like SearchMyFiles are dupeGuru, FSearch, Keypirinha and DocFetcher.

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  1. DeepPeek icon
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    Seek, peek, and preview to find your work instantly — even if it's buried in folders, or you've lost track of it over the months.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. dnGREP icon
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    dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath, and phonetic queries. dnGrep includes search-and-replace, whole-file preview, right-click search in File...

    57 dnGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
     
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    Quick macOS file searching with substring, prefix, suffix, exact, and path-mixed patterns, case-sensitive or regex search modes, instant language switching, keyboard shortcuts, Quick Look previews, Finder integration, clipboard copy, and open-source code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
     
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    Indexes and quickly searches over 170 file types and emails, including attachments and multimedia files, on desktops, external and network drives, as well as cloud environments, offering sub-second results and a 75,000 file index size limit in the free version.

    83 Copernic Desktop Search alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  5. FileSeek icon
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    FileSeek is an easy-to-use file search app that includes advanced functionality for power users! Search through files using simple queries or regular expressions. You can even sync your search settings between computers.

    83 FileSeek alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. FileLocator icon
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    FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.

    55 FileLocator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. FileMinutes icon
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    Work smarter with files on macOS with fast search, easy navigation, and integrated file actions all in one apps.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. PowerGREP icon
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    PowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.

    82 PowerGREP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  9. XSearch icon
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    XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the...

    75 XSearch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Locate32 icon
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    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 words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches.

    75 Locate32 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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