Best Desktop Search Software
Desktop search software allows users to quickly find files, folders, or specific content stored on their personal computers and certain connected applications. These applications promote individual productivity by helping employees track down important information, launch applications, and share timely content or data with team members. Desktop search tools can be utilized by anyone with a personal desktop or laptop computer used for business. Proper use of these tools can greatly reduce time spent searching for relevant files or specific information and improve efficiency and communication across an organization.
Products in the Desktop Search category are smaller-scale versions of enterprise search software, which offers convenient indexing and access to shared folders and applications within an organization. Desktop search products will typically index files stored on-premise within the user’s operating system; however, it is important to note that some products are only compatible with specific operating systems. Additionally, these tools may sync with a user’s file storage and sharing software, email software, calendar software, and/or note-taking management software to ensure the containing content is accounted for with local searches.
To qualify for inclusion in the Desktop Search category, a product must:
Best Desktop Search Software At A Glance
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Stop Searching and Start Finding — with X1 Search. X1 Search empowers you to instantly find the exact information you need across all your data sources — including emails, files, chats, documents,
- Information Technology and Services
- Higher Education
- 61% Small-Business
- 20% Mid-Market
1,238 Twitter followers
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Lookeen Desktop Search Finds Everything Your time is too valuable to waste on inefficient and ineffective search – use Lookeen to improve your productivity with its lightning fast file and email sear
- Computer Software
- 78% Small-Business
- 13% Mid-Market
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Listary is a search utility for Windows that makes finding your files and launching applications blazing fast, for casual and power users alike. Listary integrates with your favorite tools such as Tot
- Marketing and Advertising
- 76% Small-Business
- 28% Mid-Market
425 Twitter followers
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Alfred is an app for Mac OS X designed to boost efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and others.
- Computer Software
- 65% Small-Business
- 21% Enterprise
49,975 Twitter followers
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UltraFinder is a quick and lightweight Windows search program designed to find text in files anywhere. UltraFinder also allows you to find duplicates and eliminate or delete duplicates, keeping your c
- Information Technology and Services
- 71% Small-Business
- 14% Mid-Market
485 Twitter followers
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Agent Ransack is a free software program for finding files on your PC or network drives. It is a lite version of FileLocator Pro and is a free for both personal and commercial use.
- Information Technology and Services
- 70% Enterprise
- 25% Small-Business
163 Twitter followers
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TeamSlide is a slide search and library solution with a PowerPoint add-in. Access all of your slides, images, and videos without ever leaving PowerPoint. TeamSlide checks your presentations for versio
- Consulting
- 46% Small-Business
- 38% Mid-Market
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Copernic Desktop Search is the best alternative to Windows Search as it allows you to centralize your document, file & email searches in one unique interface. It creates a unique map of keywords t
- 69% Small-Business
- 19% Mid-Market
1,207 Twitter followers
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DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer.
- 83% Small-Business
- 17% Enterprise
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SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accesse
- 50% Mid-Market
- 50% Small-Business
2,815 Twitter followers
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SeekFast is a software tool, allowing you to quickly and easily search text in files on your computer. It supports all common document file types: Microsoft Word Documents (DOCX, DOC) PDF files (PDF)
- 50% Small-Business
- 50% Mid-Market
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Unleash leverages Enterprise AI Search capabilities to access all information stored in your company's existing SaaS tools. Unleash streamlines easy and on-demand access to internal knowledge hubs, wh
- Computer Software
- 58% Mid-Market
- 27% Enterprise
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OSToto Co., Ltd. is a world’s leading computer software and software services provider. Registered in 2016, this company has well developed into a strong technology team by providing excellent and pro
- 100% Small-Business
1,247 Twitter followers
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Locate files and folders by key words. Quick file indexing
- 100% Small-Business
1,062 Twitter followers
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mysys indexes your entire system's files and folders for instant search. Contents are not indexed but uses multi-threading along with the index to get results fast! Searches inside PDF's, e-book forma
- 50% Mid-Market
- 50% Small-Business
