EasyFind is an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight to find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing.
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Mac
Germany
EU
Windows Search Alternatives
Apps similar to Windows Search include Everything, which is free. Other options are DocFetcher, Agent Ransack, Recoll and UltraSearch. You're spoiled for choice with File Search Utilities like Windows Search: we list more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux, Mac, the web and Chrome OS.
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- 63 EasyFind alternatives
79 XSearch alternativesXSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didn't provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the words option such as "Any of the words", "All of the...
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
91 Lookeen Desktop Search alternativesIndexed search tool enabling file and email discovery across local, shared, and network paths. Supports Office, PDF, and web formats. Outlook integration with preview windows and search result highlights. Features include filters, customizable indexing, and enterprise support.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- Microsoft Outlook
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- EU
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FileSeek is an easy-to-use file search app that includes advanced functionality for power users! Search through files using simple queries or regular expressions. You can even sync your search settings between computers.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Windows
Canada
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
87 Find Any File alternativesFind Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
- Germany
- EU
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Performs high-speed file searches using a proprietary engine across built-in, portable, and network drives, including hidden and non-indexed files, supports detailed result filtering, provides file comparison, hex editing, autosave, advanced sorting, and multitasking.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Mac
Thailand
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78 FileSearchy alternativesFile search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.
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- Windows
United States
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Linux
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87 PowerGREP alternativesPowerGREP is a powerful Windows grep tool. Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF files, OpenOffice files, etc.
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- Paid
- Proprietary
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- Windows
United Kingdom
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 to always know exactly how something was named or written.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Windows
- United States
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VX Search is an automated, rule-based file search solution allowing one to search files by the file type, category, file name, size, location, extension, regular expressions, text and binary patterns, creation, modification and last access dates, EXIF tags, etc.
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- Freemium
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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