Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.




Terrier is described as 'Highly flexible, efficient, and effective open source search engine, readily deployable on large-scale collections of documents' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Terrier for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Terrier alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Terrier are DocFetcher, Cling Fuzzy Finder, Recoll and Clapgrep.
Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.




Find files fast across folders, drives, disks and machines and emails in MS Outlook, find duplicates. Attach labels, bookmarks and comments, automatic backup, synchronize, messaging. Tag Web pages while downloading. Share labels with others.

Exalead Desktop Search Instantly locates any document stored on local resources like internal and external hard drives, network drives and USB keys .
a small daemon that can index information using the new crawler.


Personal search and metasearch for the Free Desktop
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Baloo is not an application, but a daemon to index files. Applications can use the Baloo framework to provide file search results.
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.
