Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Desktop Search Powered by Elasticsearch launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Searchkit▲156

   UI components for Elasticsearch

   2016 · searchkit.co · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Meta Search▲360

   Search your Desktop, Google Drive, Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote.

   2016 · finance.yahoo.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   dejavu▲90

   A modern, open-source data browser for Elasticsearch.

   2016 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

4. 4AE
   An ElasticSearch Powered React Dashboard Template▲9

   2020 · medium.appbase.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Dejavu v4▲99

   Visually build and test search UI/Ux

   2018 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Mirage▲8

   An interactive query explorer for Elasticsearch

   2016 · opensource.appbase.io · its alternatives →

7. 7SR
   Searchkit – React components for elasticsearch▲74

   Searchkit - UI Widgets for Elasticsearch. React, Vue & Javascript supported

   2016 · searchkit.co · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Tesse▲99

   A new interactive search engine with people as results

   2017 · tesse.io · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Swift ElasticSearch Client▲80

   Build search experiences for iOS and Mac apps

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

10. 10GF
    GUI for writing Elasticsearch queries▲97

    2016 · appbaseio.github.io · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Spectre Elasticsearch GUI▲64

    Multi-platform desktop elasticsearch GUI & management tool

    2021 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Elasticsearch▲5

    Open Source Distributed RESTful Search Engine

    2016 · elastic.co · its alternatives →

13. 13
    ElasticSearch▲3

    Lucene based search server.

    2015 · elastic.co · its alternatives →

14. 14EF
    ElasticSearch for Images – demo with shoe images▲5

    2018 · featuresearch.co · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Sense ▲5

    A JSON aware developer console to ElasticSearch.

    2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Funnelback Search▲5

    Enterprise search as a platform

    2015 · funnelback.com · its alternatives →

17. 17SE
    Search Explorer – A new kind of WMT-based SEO tool, needs alpha testers▲9

    2015 · searchexplorer.com · its alternatives →

18. 18HF
    Hierarchical Filtering on Elasticsearch▲7

    Searchkit - UI Widgets for Elasticsearch. React, Vue & Javascript supported

    2016 · demo.searchkit.co · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Instant Multi Search▲5

    Chrome extension for power search users.

    2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Sonic▲12

    Fast, lightweight, open source search backend

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

21. 21HN
    Hot Notes – Fuzzy Search for Apple Notes (macOS)▲9

    2025 · hotmatcha.dev · its alternatives →

22. 22BR
    Built RealTime Search for Google Chrome▲6

    2013 · apoorv.quora.com · its alternatives →

23. 23SF
    Supersimplesearch – Fastest way to add search to your website▲9

    2020 · getsupersimplesearch.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Dejavu 1.0 – An open-source data browser for Elasticsearch▲9

    A Web UI for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch: Import, browse and edit data with rich filters and query views, create reference search UIs. - Release Dejavu 1.0.0 is here · appbaseio/dejavu

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →