Top 15 Leap Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

With Leap you find things based on your natural memory of that file. “Hhmm it was a big photoshop file of a basketball court” or “Something I tagged important” or “A word document somewhere in my documents folder”. With the Finder though, it's more like “I think it might be called bball.psd and that I put it in the originals folder in images in the Project 29 folder which I think I put in Documents... nope, not there... where did I put it?"

Folders and rigid hierarchies might have made sense back when we had hundreds of files, but we're now swimming in images, files, movies and other data. That's where tags come in. Tags are keywords that you assign to a file. This makes it extremely easy to find documents, regardless of their location. Why hunt through an arcane hierarchy of folders and files to find the document we want? Apple's Finder first came out over 20 years ago and we think it's time for a new approach to finding, organizing and browsing your most important documents. ...

1. Tag Everything

Tag Everything "Tag Everything" allows you to assign tags to files and folders. It does not matter how complicated your directory structure is, with tags you will find what you need in a second. Organize your data. Windows Explorer Integration. New files notification. Saved Search. Drag and Drop. Tag Cloud.Browse By Tag.......

2. TagSpaces

TagSpaces Cross-platform file tagging and file finding: Organize your photos, recipes or invoices in the same way on every platform. We currently support Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, Firefox and Chrome With the help of tags you can do research better or you can manage projects using the GTD methodology. The......

3. Tagger

Tagger Tagger is a small application for OS X that can be used for quickly adding arbitrary textual tags to files. It uses the OpenMeta system for saving tags, so the tags you add with it will be readable (and editable) by all the other applications that support OpenMeta.......

4. TaggTool

TaggTool The Personal File Tagging Utility. Tagg is a utility which locates your files based on simple labels you attach or tag on to your files.......

5. Recoll

Recoll This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.It can search most document formats.It can reach any storage place: files, archive......

6. Archivarius 3000

Archivarius 3000 Archivarius 3000 is a full-featured application to search documents and e-mail on the desktop computer, your local network and removable drives (CD, DVD). The documents can be searched by content, the same as with Internet search engines.Key features includeInstant full-text search of documents and e-mails.Word form search on 18 languages.Support......

7. TagLauncher

TagLauncher TagLauncher is a better way to classify your files and find them. By tagging, you put files in virtual folders but files are not limited to be in one of them. It means similar tags makes files similar, therefore finding them will be easier.......

8. TaggedFrog

TaggedFrog Based on the convenient drag’n’drop technique, TaggedFrog allows you to organize your files, documents and Web links. Just add objects to the library and tag them with any keywords. That’s it. You can forget the file name or where the file is located, but dont worry - the tags will......

9. Conjure

Conjure A fast, lightweight, customizable search alternative for Windows 7 that also allows for deletion and renaming. Easily locate files on mapped network drives using Conjure, expedite your searches by including folders you need and excluding ones you never use. One key combination yields access to a powerful and intuitive search......

10. Where Is It?

Where Is It? WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs and DVDs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, remote file servers, or any other present or future storage media device Windows......

11. DocFetcher

DocFetcher DocFetcher 1.1 is a portable German/English Open Source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as Google for your local document repository.......

12. Tagfs

Tagfs tagfs is Fuse file system to organize your files using tags.......

13. HoudahSpot

HoudahSpot HoudahSpot is an advanced file search tool for Mac.Use HoudahSpot to locate hard-to-find files and keep frequently used files within reach. HoudahSpot builds upon Spotlight, which comes preinstalled with OS X. It makes Spotlight both more powerful and easier to use.Start with a simple search. Refine it by adding and......

14. Hulbee Desktop

Hulbee Desktop Hulbee Desktop is a professional search software. With its "Data Cloud", a cloud of search terms, it helps users to narrow down their own search. This way, they are able to find the needed data more quickly.Hulbee Desktop is free of charge for private users; a licence fee has to......

15. ANGRYsearch

ANGRYsearch Instant file search, showing results as you type.......