iBar is like Spotlight but for the web — jump to any page in your browser history in a couple of keystrokes.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
Spotlight Alternatives
Apps similar to Spotlight include Everything, which is free. Other options are Vicinae, Flow Launcher, Raycast and Alfred. There's no shortage of File Search Utilities like Spotlight, with more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad.
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Instantly link and access files, emails, web pages, notes and tasks using contextual bookmarks, with robust, shareable links, bidirectional notes, deep linking within PDFs, Markdown support, URL clean-up, and all bookmarks stored privately on your Mac.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
Canada
Rocket is an application launcher for KDE Plasma. It sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- KDE
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Fenn is a powerful, AI-driven desktop search engine for macOS that makes your files instantly searchable—including videos, audio, PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets, and images. Just type or upload an image to find exactly where any object, person, or concept appears.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
An easy-to-use, fast and efficient full-text search tool for your iPad or iPhone. Search for content in files stored on your device, in iCloud, on network folders, USB drives and memory cards.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
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20 Baloo alternativesBaloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
83 CSearcher alternativesCSearcher 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.
Platforms
- Windows
Portugal
EU
+5
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
United States
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Switzerland
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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
Türkiye
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rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- Mac
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