Desktop file search for Windows and Mac
Finding a file or a phrase on your own machine, with no index to go stale, or with one that narrows as you type.
4 programs, free while we’re in preview. One file each. No account, no installer, nothing to uninstall.
Find a file by name or by what's inside it, with no index to build first.
The Simple one of the 4: it keeps the settings to a minimum and picks sensible defaults for you, so there is almost nothing to learn before it is useful.
Index a tree once, then ask which of the hits are .go files under 100 KB.
The Vertical one of the 4: it is tuned for that work specifically, with presets and reports built around it rather than every setting under the sun.
Index your files once, then get results back with no disk scan at all.
The Pro one of the 4: it adds the deeper settings and finer control that people who use it every day ask for, without getting in the way on a quick job.
Search every teammate's index at once and find out who else has the same file.
The Team one of the 4: it adds what a team needs: command-line control for scripts, settings you can roll out across machines, and a record of everything that ran.
Reading on this job
- How to search your files by what is inside them Built-in desktop search is fast because it keeps an index, and frustrating for the same reason — you cannot see what it decided to leave out.
What all 4 of them do the same way
- Nothing is deleted. Anything a program removes is moved somewhere you can get it back from, and anything that changes files shows you the whole plan before it touches one.
- Nothing is reported back to us. No program here signs you in, phones home or counts what you did. The ones that use the network at all use it because that is the job — fetching a file you asked for, reaching a machine you named — and nowhere else.
- One file. Download it and run it. There is no installer, no runtime to fetch and nothing left behind if you delete it.
- The window and the command line are the same program. Double-click it for the window; give it arguments and the same binary runs as a command-line tool.
- The source is published for every program here, next to the download.
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