Tags Alternatives

Tags is described as 'Allows you to manage your files in a way far superior to folders. Work faster, and be more efficient' and is an app in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Tags for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-Hosted and Microsoft Edge apps. The best Tags alternative is TagSpaces, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tags are Tabbles, Filezo, Where Is It? and Keepmark.

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  1. TagSpaces icon

    TagSpaces

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    Privacy-first, multi-device organizer for files and folders with customizable tags, color labels, note editing in markdown or HTML, Kanban boards, S3 object storage support, web page clipping, vendor lock-in free filename tagging, open source option, and multi-format preview.

    98 TagSpaces alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Cross-platform file tagging
     

    • TagSpaces is the most popular Windows, Mac, Linux & Self-Hosted alternative to Tags.

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

    • TagSpaces is Freemium and Open SourceTags is Paid and Proprietary
    • TagSpaces is Privacy focusedTags is not according to our users
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    Tabbles

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    Uses a visual, tag-based system to categorize files and folders without moving or duplicating them, enabling ad hoc combination of tags for intuitive search and retrieval, supporting large document collections and visual category management for greater flexibility.

    35 Tabbles alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Outlook
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  4. Filezo icon

    Filezo

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    Filezo (Formerly known as RecentX) is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders & programs. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

    298 Filezo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    • Filezo is the most popular commercial alternative to Tags.

    • Filezo is Paid and ProprietaryTags is also Paid and Proprietary
  5. Where Is It? icon

    Where Is It?

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    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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. Keepmark icon

    Keepmark

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    Keepmark is a desktop, privacy first documents organizer. You can organize with it your files, email, bookmarks, tasks, news, and other resources. Its available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

    96 Keepmark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Use Keepmark to Read news
     
  7. Stagsi icon

    Stagsi

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    Hackable SQLite-based tagging, any file format, with scripts and C# plugins, powerful search query language, 100k+ files managed with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. allTags icon

    allTags

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. TMSU icon

    TMSU

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    TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Docspell icon

    Docspell

     9 likes
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    Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess 😉.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Docspell screenshot 1
     
  12. TagFlow icon

    TagFlow

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    TagFlow is a simple, intelligent and efficient files manager based on tags. It allows you to easily organize, find, share and backup all your files by tagging them. Organize and find your files is easily and will improve your file organisation.

    21 TagFlow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    TagFlow screenshot 1
     
  13. Elyse icon

    Elyse

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    Because files can fit in many different categories and contexts, a tagging approach to managing them, like the kind we have for photos, bookmarks, and blog posts, makes sense. Elyse provides tag management for your files, with up to 30 tags in the free version.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Elyse screenshot 1
     
  14. Leap icon

    Leap

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    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”.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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