Alternatives to Spotlight for Mac with any license

Alfred

Alfred is a productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion. Search your Mac and the web, and control your Mac...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad
Workflow Automation Program Launchers Customizable File Searching ... Launcher Program Launchers File Searching Full text search Add a feature

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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 Windows Linux
Search-in-files File content indexing Full text search Indexed search ... Online Photo Editor Reads odt files File Searching Portable Search in Archives Semantic Search Shared folders Add a feature

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CerebroApp

Cerebro is an open source and free electron-based productivity software alternative to Alfred and Spotlight. It is focused on speed and good UI and UX. In most cases you...
- Discontinued
  Latest release (0.3.2) was on December 2017.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Calculus solving Electron based Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Launcher ... Multiplatform Export Theme changing Add a feature

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ueli

Developed with the Electron framework, ueli is the type of tool that adopts simplicity, leaving out any unnecessary options and configuration settings. It creates an...

Free Open Source Mac Windows
Program Launchers Fast file and folder search Launcher Portable ... Web searching File Searching Add a feature

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Quicksilver

Quicksilver is a fast and free Mac OS X productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly. Quicksilver learns your habits...
- saves your recent/commonly used apps for quicker searches Guest • Jul 2020
Free Open Source Mac
Program Launchers File management Launcher Add a feature

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EasyFind

EasyFind is an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight to find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing.
- Discontinued
  The app can still be downloaded on the Mac App Store but it hasn't been updated in 5 years.
Free Mac
File management File Searching Add a feature

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Zazu

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...
- Discontinued
  Repo archived by authors. No updates or releases, and no recent commits. Based on obsolete versions of underlying tools/platform.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Electron based Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Launcher Add a feature

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FoxTrot Professional Search

Search a comprehensive, centralized cache of all text found in your documents and other text-based files, including database and package files.
- Find the document you are searching for, locate the interesting pages inside the document, and highlight the found words in the document jerome1 • Jul 2020 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Category filters File Searching Full text search In-document search ... Metadata Search Spotlight Add a feature

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Dragthing

DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop. It puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly...
- Discontinued
  Notice on https://www.dragthing.com/ of discontinuation as of 2019.
Freemium Mac
Program Launchers Dock Launcher Add a feature

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HoudahSpot

HoudahSpot is an advanced file search tool for Mac. Use HoudahSpot to locate hard-to-find files and keep frequently used files within reach. HoudahSpot builds upon...

Commercial Mac
File Searching Spotlight Add a feature

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