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FilePulse vs Recoll

FilePulse

filepulsesoft.com

Recoll

recoll.org

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FigureFilePulseRecoll
Price from$1.58/moFree
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source—Yes
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
Android—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published24
Spec score · Desktop Search Software6.9 (#36)8.4 (#4)

Plans

FilePulse

  • FilePulse Pro$19 a year
  • FilePulse EnterprisePriced on request

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Recoll

  • LinuxFree
  • Recoll (Linux and source)Free
  • Recoll for WindowsPriced on request
  • Windows binaryPriced on request

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FilePulse

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Recoll

Recoll is free desktop search software that finds documents by their contents and file names. It indexes many common document formats and compressed files, including email attachments nested inside archives. Search supports Boolean queries, phrases, proximity, wildcards, and filters for file type or directory tree. Indexing can run periodically as a batch job or continuously for real-time updates. Users can search through a Qt desktop interface, a web browser, the command line, GNOME Shell, KDE KIO, or KRunner; the browser interface queries a Recoll index. A Python 3 extension can query or update that index. Recoll can index PDF attachments and annotations, extract custom XMP metadata, and apply OCR to image-only PDFs using Tesseract or ABBYY FineReader. It supports multiple languages and UTF-8, and users can choose a stemming language at query time. Linux and source are free under the GPL. A contribution is requested for the Windows binary, but no amount is stated. Some formats on Linux and macOS need external applications or libraries, and the Windows port lacks some features, including multithreaded execution.

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