Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to reverscan
world's 1st reverse file search on mac (search by img/file)
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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A year ago, my co-founder launched Desktop Docs here on HN. It's a Mac app we built with Electron that uses CLIP embeddings to search photos and videos locally with natural language. We got positive feedback from HN and our first paying customers, but the app was almost 1GB and clunky to use. TLDR; rebuilding in Rust was the right move. So we rewrote the app with Rust and Tauri and here are the results: - App size is 83% smaller: 1GB → 172MB - DMG Installer is 70% smaller: 232MB → 69.5MB - Indexing files is faster: A 38-minute video now indexes in ~3 minutes instead of 10-14 minutes -…
2025 · desktopdocs.com · its alternatives →
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Tidy▲98Spotlight returns nothing for words you know are in a scanned document. It is not a bug: a scan has no text layer, so there is nothing to index. How to check, and three ways to make those documents searchable on a Mac.
Jul 2026 · tidymacapp.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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Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents (acquired by Mayan EDMS) - zhoubear/open-paperless
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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One▲414Read Product Hunt, HN, DN, Reddit, Medium from Mac menu bar
2014 · one.hackplan.com · its alternatives →
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Document Scanner that protects your privacy. Contribute to ethereal-developers/OpenScan development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc. ExamplesPDFs Say you have a large folder of papers or lecture slides,
2019 · phiresky.github.io · its alternatives →
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Substage▲183Hey all! I’m a solo indie dev and I’ve been working on Substage – a Mac app that docks under your Finder window and lets you interact with your files using natural language. Stuff like: • Convert to webp • zip these up • Author of this PDF? • Download this file: • Is this really a PNG? • What's 5 foot 9 in cm? • Open in TextMate Substage converts your prompt into a Terminal command using an LLM (GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Mistral, or your own local model), runs it, and summarises the output. If it detects something risky, it’ll pause for confirmation before running. Commands run locally on your…
2025 · selkie.design · its alternatives →
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Build backlinks with reverse image search
2022 · imageprospector.com · its alternatives →
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Gemini 2.0▲301The intelligent duplicate file finder for your Mac
2016 · macpaw.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · pippy360.github.io · its alternatives →
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Effortless image to text conversion for Mac
2024 · getsnipit.com · its alternatives →
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Everything you loved about navigating files on your Macintosh Performa, Quadra, LC or Power Macintosh. Download an open-source clone of the original Macintosh Finder.
2017 · classicmacfinder.com · its alternatives →
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After getting frustrated with macOS's Spotlight search, e.g., typing "driver license" doesn't give me anything unless the file name matches exactly, I thought, why not index my entire Documents folder? This way, I can find that one PDF or image buried deep in subfolders using natural language queries. So I built SmartSearch; it uses SentenceTransformers for embeddings and FAISS for fast similarity search. Best of all, it runs locally on your computer. Github: https://github.com/neberej/smart-search/ Demo:…
2025 · 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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Search by image on Google, Bing, Yandex & TinEye instantly
Dec 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Search multiple documents insanely fast
2017 · pdfsearchapp.com · its alternatives →
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Pixel art search engine for opengameart. Contribute to emnh/PixelArtSearch development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · 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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A simple, freeware duplicate finder for Mac
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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OptiClear▲71Clean your Mac storage with duplicate file and photo cleanup
Apr 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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