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Google Desktop VS Recoll

Compare Google Desktop VS Recoll and see what are their differences

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Google Desktop logo Google Desktop

The power of Google on your desktop.

Recoll logo Recoll

Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool. Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.
  • Google Desktop Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-12-02
  • Recoll Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21

Google Desktop videos

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Recoll videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Google Desktop and Recoll)

Google Desktop

Recoll

File Manager
11 11%
File Manager
89% 89
Mac
100 100%
Mac
0% 0
Clipboard Manager
9 9%
Clipboard Manager
91% 91
Note Taking
0 0%
Note Taking
100% 100

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Google Desktop seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Google Desktop mentions (1)

  • Unable to search for 'Word' documents that have content in headers/footers. They just don't appear.
    Google used to have a desktop product… but that was a long time ago (http://desktop.google.com). Depending on how technical you are, there is Elasticsearch and Tika that can crawl office documents. Source: over 2 years ago

Recoll mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Recoll yet. Tracking of Recoll recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Google Desktop and Recoll, you can also consider the following products

SwiftSearch - SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need...

DocFetcher - DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application.

Everything by Voidtools - Everything. Locate files and folders by name instantly. Everything. Small installation file. Clean and simple user interface.

Agent Ransack - Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently.

Advanced File Finder - Find, copy, rename files with specific names, properties, text / binary content

SearchMyFiles - Alternative to the standard Search For Files And Folders module of Windows. Duplicates search is also supported.

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