Top 15 File Finder Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

Ever come across a situation when you need to search for a keyword among many text files in some folders? This app is to serve that need.

To configure, set the input folder (at least one), file extension (optional), file search word. Tap Execute Rule to start looking for text files that fulfill the criteria or tap Save Rule to save the configuration to be re-used later.

Please note the File Search Word allow Regular Expression OR Normal mode. For users not familiar with the term Regular Expression, you can ignore and always stick with Normal mode.

1. AndroSearch

AndroSearch Search INSIDE documents/files on your device like no other files manager/finder do.Featuring sub second, full text, Desktop Search in files content, and over apps names and description.KEY FEATURES:- Files Search - by name, extension, and full text search inside PDF, MS OFFICE, and Open Office.- Recently Modified Files View -......

2. Magican File

Magican File Magican File is a professional program for Mac OS X that let you search and manage files on your disks. Search files on disk- Magican File supports files search in any directory in Hard Disk and Flash Disk, you may define partition or folder as demand; type the files’ name,......

3. Search Everything

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4. Everything

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5. Catfish

Catfish Catfish is a versatile file searching tool.Catfish is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options allow filtering by date and file type. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+.Requirements: PyGtk, GTK+3, python-xdg, dbus......

6. UltraSearch

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7. Instant Document Search

Instant Document Search Instant Document Search is a powerful search solution (like Internet search engines) for your local documents. You can instantly find documents by keywords or key-phrases and see the results with context preview and highlighted keywords. Instant Document Search supports most of the popular document types, has flexible configuration options, convenient......

8. Advanced File Finder

Advanced File Finder Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified directories and searching for matching files.- All files can then be saved to file list; copied to a new location specified using either absolute or......

9. One Commander

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10. VideoCacheView

VideoCacheView Save/copy downloaded flash (.flv) video files from your Web browser cache or from your temporary folder. Works with YouTube, Metacafe, and others.......

11. grepWin

grepWin 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 menu to easily search selected folders. The use of regular expressions allows for a very powerful search and replace.......

12. Desk & Archive

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13. Blast

Blast Blast keeps track of the files you’ve been using on your computer and gives you super easy and lightning fast access to them.Don’t worry about where you just saved a certain file; it’s in your menu bar. Closed the wrong window? The document you were reading is in Blast, one......

14. Quick Search

Quick Search Welcome to the best search app on the Market!Quick Search widget allows you to browse your device and the web from a single app, giving you easy and fast access to everything on your phone!With our super easy to use interface, and super-fast auto complete you can search, locate and......

15. GNU Find Utilities

GNU Find Utilities The GNU Find Utilities are the basic directory searching utilities of the GNU operating system. These programs are typically used in conjunction with other programs to provide modular and powerful directory search and file locating capabilities to other commands. The tools supplied with this package are: find, locate, updatedb and......