CLUSTER DESKTOP-FILE-FILES · 46 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2014-06-12
Desktop file search utilities
This cluster comprises desktop and local file search tools that index file names and contents for fast, often offline retrieval across documents, PDFs, archives, and emails. The dated history before the index start shows a single entry in 2014 followed by a gap, then a recurring trickle of entries from 2021 onward through 2026, with a slightly higher frequency in 2024-2026 but no uniform trend. Among traction leaders, android_everything leads with 230 stars, far ahead of text_search (17) and FloePod (4).
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled
Operator · 5 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 41RecollDroid0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile front end for a self-hosted full-text search engine that indexes and searches desktop or server files remotely.
- 42Tiny Image Finder0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA desktop utility that searches and previews images from a selected folder using a scalable search algorithm.
- 43lucene-grep-bin0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceGrep-like utility that uses Lucene Monitor for fast text search across files.
- 44KFind0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop search tool that finds files and folders by name, type, or content, integrated with a file manager.
- 45Lupa Text0★unknownliveDesktop utility that searches for terms across PDF files within a folder and its subfolders, listing matching files and page numbers.
- 46pyneedle0★6 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop file search tool that queries local search indexes to quickly find files on a computer.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.