Free Where Is It? Alternatives for Windows

There are many alternatives to Where Is It? for Windows and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is GCstar, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Where Is It? and 18 are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Where Is It? are Virtual Volumes View, Video Hub App, Easy Disk Catalog Maker and Disk Explorer Professional.

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  1. GCstar icon
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    Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).

    100 GCstar alternatives

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    It does not automatically catalog media. You must manually add items to the collection.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think GCstar is a great Where Is It? alternative, some don't.

    • GCstar is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Where Is It?.

    • GCstar is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Where Is It?.

    • GCstar is Free and Open SourceWhere Is It? is Paid and Proprietary
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    VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can...

    23 Virtual Volumes View alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • PortableApps.com
     
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    no thumbnails of pictures, no way to store a portion of textfiles in VVV database, no filters as in whereist, ...

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    Searchable mirror catalog of disks volumes, not a collection manager.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Almost everyone thinks Virtual Volumes View is a great Where Is It? alternative.

    • Virtual Volumes View is Free and Open SourceWhere Is It? is Paid and Proprietary
    • Virtual Volumes View is LightweightWhere Is It? is not according to our users
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    This application is a powerful tool for cataloging all CDs, DVDs, floppies, ZIP disks, or other removable media, hard drives, network drives, or even FTP servers on the Internet (they are called volumes).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    Comments about Disk Explorer Professional as an Alternative to Where Is It?
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    It looks pretty like whereisit and have a lot of the same characteristics and customizations even can scan into compressed files and make thumbnails

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Disk Explorer Professional is Free and ProprietaryWhere Is It? is Paid and Proprietary
  4. Elyse icon
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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.

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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  5. Basenji icon
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    Basenji is a volume indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of volume collections. It currently supports indexing of removable media such as CDs and USB sticks and stores them as volume objects in a database.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  6. InsideCAT icon
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    InsideCAT allows you to track all your data stored on hard drives, CDs, DVDs, Floppy disks, Netdrives, Zip, Jazz and M.O. drives. Every disk or partition you index with InsideCAT will be visible in a separate catalogue.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
     
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    With Personal Video Database you can catalog your movie collection fast and easy. Thought-out user interface and different database management function make it easy to create and manage big movie databases. Powerful filtering, grouping and sorting help you find movies very fast.

    40 Personal Video Database alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  8. Movienizer icon
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    Movienizer is a powerful movie organizer that contains features of an encyclopedia. It was developed by movie lovers specially for movie lovers.

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
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    • Windows
     
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    CaDE (CD and DVD Explorer) is a easy-to-use file collection software. CaDE helps you to create and manage large media collections by indexing files on your fixed (HDD) and removable (CD, DVD etc.) storages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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