Tagger AlternativesOnly apps categorised as File Search Utilities

The best File Search alternative to Tagger is TagSpaces, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Tagger and ten of them are File Search Utilities so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting File Search Utility alternatives to Tagger are Tabbles, RecentX, Where Is It? and allTags.

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Tagger is a small application for OS X that can be used for quickly adding arbitrary textual tags to files. It uses the OpenMeta system for saving tags, so the tags you add with it will be readable (and editable) by all the...

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Tagger alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
  1. TagSpaces icon
     225 likes

    TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors.

    98 TagSpaces alternatives
    Cross-platform file tagging

    License model

    • FreemiumOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2.  File Search
    3.  File Organizer
    4.  Works Offline
    5.  Kanban Board
    6.  Support for MarkDown
    7.  Built-in viewer
    8.  WYSIWYG Support
    9.  No registration required
    10.  Web Clipper
    11.  Dark Mode
    12.  Portable
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    • TagSpaces is the most popular Windows, Android, Mac & Linux alternative to Tagger.

    • TagSpaces is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Tagger.

    • TagSpaces is Freemium and Open SourceTagger is Free and Open Source
    • TagSpaces is Privacy focusedTagger is not according to our users
  2. Tabbles icon
     77 likes

    Tag files, along with your peers to organize and find them. Works on local or network drives and in the Cloud. Tabbles features collaborative tagging, auto-tagging rules, an Outlook Plugin, a Chrome extension and is well integrated with Windows,.

    34 Tabbles alternatives
    Tabbles screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Google Chrome
    • Outlook

    Top Tabbles Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2.  Portable
    3.  Chromecast Support
    4.  Visual Tagging
    5.  Automatic Tagging
    6.  Tag based
    7.  Virtual folders
    8.  File Organizer
    9.  DMS
    10.  Indexed search
    11.  File preview
    12.  Multiple languages
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  3. RecentX icon
     106 likes

    RecentX is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders, programs, websites & clipboard history. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

    285 RecentX alternatives
    RecentX screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Top RecentX Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    3.  Portable
    4.  Tagging
    5.  Indexed search
    6.  Folder-Search
    7.  Tabbed interface
    8.  Clipboard monitoring
    9.  Image Preview
    10.  Tag based
    11.  Folder Tagging
    12.  Bookmark History
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  4. Where Is It? icon
     44 likes

    WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs and DVDs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, remote file servers, or...

    39 Where Is It? alternatives
    Where Is It? screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Where Is It? Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  File Tagging
    3.  Catalog
    4.  Indexed search
    5.  Tagging
    6.  Tag based
    7.  Multiple languages
    Discontinued

    Last version: 2014Lot of functionality not working anymore (IMDB)

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  5. allTags icon
     16 likes

    allTags is a free, tag based file management application. It was designed to speed up file handling even in very large file sets.

    18 allTags alternatives
    Image gallery

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Top allTags Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2.  Image Preview
    3.  Automatic Tagging
    4.  Data export/import
    5.  Automatic Backup
    6.  File Versioning
    7.  Works Offline
    8.  Portable
    9.  Drag and Drop
    10.  Tagging
    11.  Batch processing
    12.  Support for Batch Mode
    Discontinued

    From the official website: "Due to the lack of development time, further development of allTags is suspended.It will continue to work and we will try our best to fix reported bugs, but no features are currently being worked on."

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  6. Taglists icon
     5 likes

    TagLists is a small application for OS X that allows you to quickly see which files you've tagged with particular tags. It uses the OpenMeta tagging system, which means that it finds files that have been tagged with any of the applications that support OpenMeta.

    22 Taglists alternatives
    User interface

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. Advanced Recent Access icon
     1 like

    Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.

    261 Advanced Recent Access alternatives
    Advanced Recent Access screenshot 1

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Advanced Recent Access iconTagger Icon

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  8. Leap icon
     7 likes

    With Leap you find things based on your natural memory of that file. “Hhmm it was a big photoshop file of a basketball court” or “Something I tagged important” or “A word document somewhere in my documents folder”.

    12 Leap alternatives
    Leap screenshot 1

    License model

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Leap Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2.  Tagging
    Leap iconTagger Icon

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  9. TagLauncher icon
     1 like

    TagLauncher is a better way to classify your files and find them. By tagging, you put files in virtual folders but files are not limited to be in one of them. It means similar tags makes files similar, therefore finding them will be easier.

    20 TagLauncher alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    TagLauncher Features

    1.  Tagging
    TagLauncher iconTagger Icon

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  10. TaggTool icon
     6 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.

    52 TaggTool alternatives
    TaggTool screenshot 1

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    TaggTool Features

    1.  File Tagging
    2. File Explorer icon  Windows Explorer Extension
    3.  File Organizer
    4.  Tag based
    5.  Automatic Tagging
    Discontinued

    Impossible to contact the web site

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