20 Like AstroGrep Good alternative? YES NO AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and... Free Open Source Windows Support for regular expressions Add a feature
49 Like grepWin Good alternative? YES NO grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for strings of text within files. grepWin adds an entry to the shell context... Free Open Source Windows PortableApps.com Support for regular expressions Add a feature
17 Like PowerGREP Good alternative? YES NO Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain... Commercial Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
82 Like Lookeen Desktop Search Alternative? YES NO A fast and next-generation desktop search and productivity tool for standard and virtual desktops, for private and enterprise search requirements. Finds documents... Freemium Windows Microsoft Office Outlook Indexed search Outlook search Add a feature
14 Like grep Good alternative? YES NO grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression. Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku Support for regular expressions Add a feature
22 Like dnGREP Good alternative? YES NO dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results. Search through text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives using text, regular expression, XPath... Free Open Source Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
6 Like Exselo Desktop Good alternative? YES NO Outlook and desktop search to help you search and find information from your files, emails and documents on your computer. Now also with a secure p2p network so you can... Free Mac Windows Outlook search Indexed search Outlook integration Real time collaboration Share files Add a feature
3 Like The Silver Searcher Good alternative? YES NO Silver Searcher is a code search tool similar to ack that claims to be much faster. It's implemented in C and has some extra features such as ignoring files per... Free Open Source Mac Linux BSD No features added Add a feature
11 Like BareGrep Good alternative? YES NO A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search *... Freemium Windows Support for regular expressions Add a feature
2 Like AIKIN Desktop HyperSearch Alternative? YES NO AIKIN is a powerful new desktop search that can find item names and content using advanced pattern recognition and semantic awareness, that doesn't require the user... Freemium Windows Semantic Search Add a feature
3 Like regexxer Good alternative? YES NO regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines... Free Open Source Windows Linux No features added Add a feature
3 Like Batch File Replace Good alternative? YES NO Search and replace text and raw bytes in multiple files. Features include: multi-line text entry; full support for RegEx with syntax highlighting and match... Freemium Windows Batch Editing Support for Batch Mode Batch processing Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
5 Like fnr.exe Good alternative? YES NO Open Source tool to find/replace text in multiple files. Extremely simple to use. Command line support to run Replace using batch file. Features Single file... Free Windows Support for regular expressions Search and replace Add a feature
6 Like Replace Text Good alternative? YES NO Replace Text, formerly called BK ReplaceEm, is the free string-replacing utility for Windows. At its core, Replace Text is essentially a text search-and-replace... Free Windows Support for regular expressions Add a feature
2 Like Batch RegEx Good alternative? YES NO Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data... Commercial Windows Batch processing Support for regular expressions Text Analytics Text formatting Add a feature
