Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to OmniSearch
Fast Windows file search with content search & duplicates
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Omnisearch▲428Find anything inside audio, video, images & documents
2022 · omnisearch.ai · its alternatives →
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Meta Search▲360Search your Desktop, Google Drive, Dropbox, Gmail, Evernote.
2016 · finance.yahoo.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' - sharkdp/fd
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I wrote a small program to browse folders in the terminal. The main inspiration was type-ahead search in GUI file managers. There exist several programs that are similar (see the listing in the README), but none of them do it quite the way I like, and often they have a very complex UI and a ton of features. I tried to make something that is obvious how to use and gets out of your way. (I also wanted an excuse to learn Rust.) Let me know what you think!
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Over the past few months, I've been working on building Omni - a workplace search and chat platform that connects to apps like Google Drive/Gmail, Slack, Confluence, etc. Essentially an open-source alternative to Glean, fully self-hosted. I noticed that some orgs find Glean to be expensive and not very extensible. I wanted to build something that small to mid-size teams could run themselves, so I decided to build it all on Postgres (ParadeDB to be precise) and pgvector. No Elasticsearch, or dedicated vector databases. I figured Postgres is more than capable of handling the level…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I got nerd-sniped by Bloom Filters this weekend, specifically for searching datasets with high "cardinality" (number of unique items). They're an _amazing_ data structure that, at a fixed size, tracks potential set membership. That means unlike normal b-tree indexes, they don't grow with the number of unique items in the dataset. This makes them great for "needle in a haystack" search (logs, document) as implementations like VictoriaMetrics and Bing's BitFunnel show. I've used them in the past, but they've never been center-stage in my projects. I wanted high cardinality keyword…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HNSW implementation in Rust. Reference: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1603/1603.09320.pdf - swapneel/hnsw-rust
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello folks, We are launching OpenObserve. An open source Elasticsearch/Splunk/Datadog alternative written in rust and vue that is super easy to get started with and has 140x lower storage cost compared to elasticsearch. It offers logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, functions (run aws lambda like functions during ingestion and query to enrich, redact, transform, normalize and whatever else you want to do. Think redacting email IDs from logs, adding geolocation based on IP address, etc). You can do all of this from the UI, no messing up with configuration files. OpenObserve…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SeekStorm: vector & lexical search - in-process library & multi-tenancy server, in Rust. - SeekStorm/SeekStorm
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Meilisearch AI▲241Boost relevance and UX with fast hybrid and semantic search
2025 · meilisearch.com · its alternatives →
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A faster alternative to Elasticsearch written in C++
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cloud-native OSS search engine for observability. Contribute to quickwit-oss/quickwit development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tim Robertson has a website.
2013 · omniref.com · its alternatives →
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Tantivy▲68A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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:crystal_ball: Scalable reverse image search built on Kubernetes and Elasticsearch - dsys/match
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SeekFast▲99Quickly and easily search text in files on your computer
2021 · seekfast.org · its alternatives →
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Mirowl▲96Search all your screenshots via a local OCR-powered AI
Jun 2026 · mirowl.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Adithya, a 20-year-old dev from India. I have been working with GenAI for the past year, and I've found it really painful to deal with the many different forms of data out there and get the best representation of it for my AI applications. That's why I built OmniParse—an open-source platform designed to handle any unstructured data and transform it into optimized, structured representations. Key Features: - Completely local processing—no external APIs - Supports ~20 file types - Converts documents, multimedia, and web pages to high-quality structured markdown - Table extraction,…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OmniFile▲3Hello HN, I'm the developer of OmniFile. I built this tool because I was frustrated with having my data scattered across too many platforms and struggling to find what I needed quickly. OmniFile is a desktop app that lets you search through your local files and cloud services in one unified interface. Key Features: Integrations: Currently supports Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, SharePoint, Slack, and Notion. Tech Stack: Built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript for the frontend, with a Rust backend for performance and secure file handling. Privacy: It indexes your content locally, so your data…
Feb 2026 · omnifile.app · its alternatives →
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It’s 2025, and somehow, there’s still no good self-hosted alternative to sites like ILoveIMG.com or OnlineTools.com... until now. OmniTools is here to fill that gap! It’s a free web-based, open-source self-hosted platform that brings together all your favorite online tools in one place—fully self-hosted and ad-free. Project: https://github.com/iib0011/omni-tools Why Omni Tools? Completely FREE & Open-Source – No hidden fees, ever. Self-Hosted – Keep control of your data, no tracking, no nonsense. All Your Favorite Tools in One Place – Image, coding, file utilities and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A program I used stopped getting updates, so I made my own version of it. It's a fast plaintext search utility in a GUI. It's great for finding text in code projects, log files, configs, anything plaintext! Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Free version limitations are a splash screen and limited history entries.
2024 · ksylvestre.itch.io · its alternatives →
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