Searchmonkey III

6.6easy start · #13 of 59
in Desktop Search Software

Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows.

Searchmonkey III is ranked #13 of 59 in desktop search software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS, Windows.

Searchmonkey III plans and pricing

PDF Extractor $9 once PDF · macOS · Windows · Linux · version 0.2.9 searchmonkey.dev · 30 Sept 2026

Office Documents $14 once DOC/DOCX/PPT/PPTX/ODT/RTF · macOS · Windows · Linux · version 0.1.2 searchmonkey.dev · 30 Sept 2026

Image OCR $18 once JPG/JPEG/PNG/WEBP/TIF/TIFF/BMP · macOS · Windows · Linux · version 0.1.9 searchmonkey.dev · 30 Sept 2026

Recoll 0 of 4 in the starter kit Lesson 17.5 Agent Ransack 0 of 4 in the starter kit Lesson 27.2 Buddi 0 of 4 in the starter kit Lesson 37.1 FileLocator Pro 0 of 4 in the starter kit Lesson 47.1 Open Semantic Desktop Search 0 of 4 in the starter kit Lesson 57.1 DocFetcher 0 of 4 in the starter kit Lesson 67.0

Purpose: Searchmonkey III is a desktop tool for real-time searching of files on disk.
Search model: The application searches the filesystem directly without maintaining a background index or daemon.
Results: Search results stream as files are searched and reflect the current state of disk.
Search syntax: The application supports literal searches and regular expressions.
File handling: The interface shows what was searched, skipped, filtered, or blocked by permissions.
Technology: Searchmonkey III is built with Tauri and ripgrep and is released under the MIT license.
Plugins: Optional plugins add local processing for PDFs, Office documents, OCR, and other formats.
Privacy: Plugins process supported content locally without moving documents off the user's machine.
Supported users: The project describes use cases including changing codebases, log inspection, large directories, and environments where background daemons are undesirable.
Command line: Searchmonkey provides a ripgrep-inspired command line with path, regex, glob, hidden-file, symlink, context, and ignore controls.
Downloads: Version 0.4.1 is offered for Linux as a portable AppImage, Windows as an installer, and macOS as a universal Intel and Apple Silicon build.
Plugin roadmap: The plugins page lists email archives, spreadsheets, and audio transcription as coming soon.

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