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Recoll VS FAR - Find And Replace

Compare Recoll VS FAR - Find And Replace and see what are their differences

Recoll logo Recoll

Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool. Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.

FAR - Find And Replace logo FAR - Find And Replace

FAR is a simple tool for search and replace operations over multiple files.
  • Recoll Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-21
  • FAR - Find And Replace Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-10-12

Recoll videos

DEF CON 25 Recon Village - Dakota Nelson -Total Recoll

More videos:

  • Review - Tutorial RECOLL
  • Review - Ubuntu Total "Recoll" - HDD Volltextsuche

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Recoll and FAR - Find And Replace)
File Manager
70 70%
30% 30
Clipboard Manager
74 74%
26% 26
Note Taking
63 63%
37% 37
File Management
60 60%
40% 40

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, FAR - Find And Replace 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.

Recoll mentions (0)

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

FAR - Find And Replace mentions (1)

  • How to split a sequence diagram?
    I recommend using Faind And Replace (F.A.R). The interface is somewhat old school, but I know of nothing better for finding and replacing text across multiple files in a directory tree. Source: over 1 year ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Recoll and FAR - Find And Replace, you can also consider the following products

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

dnGREP - dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results.

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

AstroGrep - AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility.

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

Advanced Recent Access - Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.