August 15th, 2024

Show HN: Fast Incremental Plaintext Searcher

MightyGrep is a cross-platform search tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux, priced at $9.99, featuring incremental search, multiple exports, and a built-in viewer, with a 5.0 user rating.

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Show HN: Fast Incremental Plaintext Searcher

MightyGrep is a cross-platform search tool developed by ksylvestre, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is priced at $9.99 and offers features such as content and filename search, incremental mode for real-time updates, multiple export options, and a built-in file viewer. Users can try a free demo before purchasing. The software supports various system architectures, including ARM64, x64, and x86, with specific minimum system requirements for each operating system. Future updates are planned to include logical operator modes, GUI translations, and a watch mode that retriggers searches upon file or folder modifications. The tool has received a positive rating of 5.0 out of 5 stars based on user feedback. Users can access the software and its updates through a dedicated GitHub page, which also serves as a bug tracker.

- MightyGrep is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux at a price of $9.99.

- Key features include incremental search, multiple export options, and a built-in file viewer.

- The tool supports various architectures and has specific minimum system requirements.

- Future updates will introduce new functionalities like logical operators and GUI translations.

- It has a high user rating of 5.0 out of 5 stars.

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By @vintagedave - about 2 months
How does this compare to ugrep or others?

Fast text search is really valuable -- if we could see comparisons it would help make judgements about which to use.

By @thro1 - about 2 months
Clean interface(*). Seems fast - does it index files ? (* nicer than grepWin (GPL) - more like BareGrep without source)

Comparing with others: ripgrep (MIT) mention filtering and shell completions, ugrep (MIT) - including a file indexer, searching in archives and fuzzy search, dnGrep (GPL3) - archives, s&r+undo, (as well) to line results in external editor and XPath.

Unfortunately can't test it. Virustotal says it's not network shy (IP Traffic) and unsafe (3/75 security vendors flagged this file as malicious) :(

By @pdimitar - about 2 months
Without comparison to leading tools like ripgrep, the_silver_searcher and ugrep, this project will remain a passing curiosity.

$10 is nothing and I already forgot how much did the restaurant dinner last night cost me, but I don't want to give money without knowing what am I getting in little more details and/or user-friendly marketing like tool comparison.