List of desktop search programs
Below is a list of programs for desktop search with and without an index .
list
| Surname | Windows | macOS | Linux / Unix | License | index | Full-
text |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent Ransack | Yes | - | - | commercial software, Free | yes ($ 60) | Yes | Also full-text search in binary formats. Identical to FileLocator Pro. With index $ 60. |
| Alfred | - | Yes | - | commercial software | - | no full text search | |
| Copernic Desktop Search | Yes | - | - | commercial software, $ 15 per year | |||
| DocFetcher | Yes | Yes | Yes | ✔ free software | Yes | Yes | With index. Based on Java . |
| Everything | Yes | - | - | Freeware, donations welcome. | Yes | - | Full text search without index. Search and index creation very quickly. Functional surface, but modern. Well maintained. |
| Find Any File | - | Yes | - | commercial software, $ 8 | Yes | Full text search limited to unformatted text | |
| FoxTrot | - | Yes | - | commercial software, € 34 | Versions: Personal / Professional / Server. Companion app available for iOS | ||
| Launchy | Yes | - | Yes | ✔ free software | - | ||
| Listary | Yes | - | - | commercial software, Free + $ 20 | - | integrated in Explorer | |
| Lookeen | Yes | - | - | commercial software, € 69 | Yes | Also scans PST files (Microsoft Outlook) and Microsoft Exchange Server. From Karlsruhe. | |
| Quicksilver | - | Yes | - | ✔ free software | - | ||
| Recoll | Yes | - | Yes | ✔ free software | Yes | ||
| SwiftSearch | Yes | - | - | ✔ free software CC BY-NC | - | NTFS drive: very fast search. | |
| T-rex | Yes | - | - | Freeware | Yes | Full text search in many binary formats. Formerly AZ Finder. | |
| Terrier search engine | Yes | Yes | Yes | ✔ free software | Yes | Yes | Developed at the University of Glasgow . Command line for indexing, desktop interface for search. "You have been warned." |
| UltraSearch | Yes | - | - | commercial software, freeware | Yes | NTFS drive: very fast search. | |
| X1 Search | Yes | - | - | commercial software, $ 96 | formerly Yahoo Desktop Search |
Part of the operating system
| Surname | Windows | macOS | Linux / Unix | License | index | Full-
text |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EasyFind | - | Yes | - | commercial software, freeware | Frontend for Spotlight Index | ||
| HoudahSpot | - | Yes | - | commercial software | Frontend for Spotlight Index | ||
| Spotlight | - | Yes | - | Standard search in Apple macOS | Yes | An integral part of the operating system since Mac OS X Tiger. Successor to Sherlock. | |
| Windows Search | Yes | - | - | Standard search in Microsoft Windows | Yes | Partly with index. An integral part of Windows since Vista, available as an update for Windows XP. |
Further development discontinued
| Surname | Windows | macOS | Linux / Unix | License | index | Full-
text |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| beagle | - | - | Yes | ✔ free software | Yes | Discontinued in 2010 | |
| Google Desktop | Yes | Yes | Yes | commercial software | Discontinued in 2011 | ||
| Strigi | Yes | Yes | Yes | ✔ free software | Discontinued in 2013. Pure indexer that also requires a search interface. | ||
| Svizzer Client Search | Yes | - | - | Freeware | Discontinued in 2017 (last version appeared in November of 2016) |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dave Vest: Agent Ransack - Mythicsoft. Retrieved February 5, 2020 (UK English).
- ^ Stephan Bäcker and Peter Siering: Your own medicine cabinet. In: c't . May 12, 2017 .
- ↑ dave: File Locator Pro - Information - Mythicsoft. Retrieved February 6, 2020 (UK English).
- ↑ Alfred: The 33 best extensions for the workflow miracle tool. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
- ^ Copernic Desktop Search. In: CHIP. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
- ↑ DocFetcher. In: CHIP. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.voidtools.com/faq/#What_is_Everything
- ↑ https://itunes.apple.com/app/find-any-file/id402569179?mt=12
- ↑ Professional search with FoxTrot Professional Search | MacGadget. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Listary is an Awesome File Browsing, Searching tool For Windows. Retrieved August 10, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Thorsten Eggeling: Full-text search: Search files in Linux. August 23, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2020 (German).
- ↑ http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/recoll-windows.html
- ↑ SwiftSearch. In: CHIP. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
- ^ Adrian Hauck: T-REX. TeraConnect Informationstechnologie GmbH, accessed on February 6, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.computerbild.de/download/T-REX-3269816.html
- ↑ Terrier IR Platform - Homepage. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Iadh Ounis, Gianni Amati, Vassilis Plachouras, Ben Hey, Craig Macdonald, and Christina Lioma .: Terrier: A High Performance and Scalable Information Retrieval Platform . In: In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR'06 Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval (OSIR 2006). August 10, 2006. Seattle, Washington, USA. ( gla.ac.uk [PDF]).
- ↑ UltraSearch. In: heise Download. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
- ↑ EasyFind. In: heise Download. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
- ↑ HoudahSpot. In: heise Download. Retrieved August 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Martin White: Making Search Work: Implementing Web, Intranet and Enterprise Search . Facet Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85604-602-2 ( google.de [accessed August 31, 2020]).
- ^ Svizzer Desktop Search. In: CHIP. Accessed August 31, 2020 .