Purpose: FSearch is a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems, inspired by Everything Search Engine.
Implementation: It is written in C and based on GTK3.
Live results: Search results appear instantly as the user types.
Search options: It supports advanced search syntax, wildcards, regular expressions, and filters for files, folders, or both.
Index controls: Users can include or exclude specific folders from indexing and exclude files or folders using wildcard expressions.
Sorting: Results can be sorted by filename, path, size, or modification time.
Platforms: The project lists packages for Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Fedora/RHEL/CentOS, Debian, openSUSE, Flatpak, Solus, and FreeBSD.
License: The GitHub repository identifies the project license as GPL-2.0.
Dependencies: The listed requirements include GTK 3.22, GLib 2.60, glibc 2.19 or musl 1.1.15, PCRE2 10.21, and ICU 4.4.
Flatpak limitation: The project marks its Flatpak package as having limited features.
Sorting limitation: Sorting many results by type can be very slow because type information is expensive to gather and is not indexed.
Trash limitation: Moving files or folders to Trash does not update the database index, so they may continue to appear in results.
Support: The README directs bug reports and feature requests to GitHub Issues, questions and discussions to GitHub Discussions, and other FSearch matters to Matrix.
Intended audience: The maker describes advanced users as the target audience and says the project is intended as a standalone search application.
Price from: Free

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Best Desktop Search Software in 2026#43 of 59

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Sources

github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch· checked 10 Oct 2026