Top 15 Recoll Alternative and Similar Softwares | Mar 2024

This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.

Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.

It can search most document formats.
It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression.
One click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview.

1. DocFetcher

DocFetcher DocFetcher 1.1 is a portable German/English Open Source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as Google for your local document repository.......

2. 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......

3. Windows Search

Windows Search Windows Search, formerly known as Windows Desktop Search (WDS) on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, is an indexed desktop search platform created by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows. Windows Search builds a full-text index of files on a computer. Searches are performed not only on file names, but also on......

4. Copernic Desktop Search

Copernic Desktop Search Instantly find files, e-mails, and attachments stored anywhere on your PC with the free Copernic Desktop Search Home. Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) enables you to instantly search files, e-mails, and e-mail attachments stored anywhere on your PCs hard drive. The application executes sub second searching of Microsoft Word, Excel, and......

5. Lookeen Desktop Search

Lookeen Desktop Search Lookeen Desktop Search is an indexed-based file and email search tool for business and private users. With Lookeen you will not only find the information you need on your desktop – shared folders and network paths can also be indexed and searched.Lookeen allows you to simultaneously search the contents of......

6. ANGRYsearch

ANGRYsearch Instant file search, showing results as you type.......

7. Archivarius 3000

Archivarius 3000 Archivarius 3000 is a full-featured application to search documents and e-mail on the desktop computer, your local network and removable drives (CD, DVD). The documents can be searched by content, the same as with Internet search engines.Key features includeInstant full-text search of documents and e-mails.Word form search on 18 languages.Support......

8. regain

regain Search the contents of your files not just the file names.regain is a search engine similar to web search engines like Google, with the difference that you don't search the web, but your own files and documents. Using regain you can search through large portions of data (several gigabytes!) in......

9. 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 -......

10. Exselo Desktop

Exselo Desktop Exselo Desktop is a Business Productivity Search tool that helps users with their day-to-day informational and operational needs.Exselo recognize the challenge to effectively understand and use the vast amount of information available. Exselo Desktop is the next generation search tool to help you find the information you have in Outlook......

11. SuperCat

SuperCat Organize all your files and disks.Disk Catalog and File Search Software: SuperCat. Finding files on hard drives can be a nightmare, and finding files on removable hard drives and and other storage media can be impossible. SuperCat lets you catalog all your disks, so you'll never lose a file again.Compatible......

12. Search GT

Search GT Fully integrated with Windows Explorer, Search GT is a light and fast replacement for Windows built-in file search engine that parses the MFT instead of indexing files in the background. This results in a negligible footprint on system performance and in always up-to-date search results.Search GT also features customizable search......

13. SMF – Search my Files

SMF – Search my Files SMF is a file and file duplicate search tool that uses hashing (MD5, CRC32 or SHA1) to determine similarity. It has tons of search filter capabilities and a result reporting tool, with which you can sub-filter the result set according to your needs.Writes settings to: Application folderHow to extract: Download......

14. UniversalCodeGrep

UniversalCodeGrep UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep. Search patterns are specified as PCRE regexes.ucg is intended to address the impatient programmer's......

15. ack

ack Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.Ack ignores backup......