Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to The Silver Searcher

Product categories

Clipboard Manager Email Converter FTP Client File Explorer File Manager IDE Knowledge Base LMS Note Taking Productivity Sales Task Management

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to The Silver Searcher are ripgrep, fzf, and fd. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

ripgrep Landing Page
1

ripgrep

ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Manager #Note Taking #Clipboard Manager
fzf Landing Page
2

fzf

A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 215 social mentions
fd Landing Page
3

fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 118 social mentions
dnGREP Landing Page
4

dnGREP

dnGrep allows you to search across files with easy-to-read results.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Manager #Note Taking #Clipboard Manager 9 social mentions
grepWin Landing Page
5

grepWin

grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use PCRE regular expressions to search for...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Manager #Note Taking #Clipboard Manager
fzy Landing Page
6

fzy

A better fuzzy finder
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Productivity #LMS 4 social mentions
ack Landing Page
7

ack

Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Manager #Note Taking #Clipboard Manager
Org mode Landing Page
8

Org mode

Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions
MiXplorer Landing Page
9

MiXplorer

MiXplorer is a mobile app that was designed to make it easy to organize and manage the files on your Android device.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#File Manager #File Explorer #Tool
Vimwiki Landing Page
10

Vimwiki

Vimwiki is a personal wiki for Vim – interlinked, plain text files written in a markup language.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Perosnal Wiki #Note Taking #Personal Productivity 17 social mentions
Gollum Landing Page
11

Gollum

Gollum is a simple wiki system built on top of Git
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #WiKi 18 social mentions
Micro Landing Page
12

Micro

Modern terminal-based text editor
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 76 social mentions