LertaroHigh-Performance Extensible Search for Windows

Index millions of local files in seconds. Lightweight, lightning fast, with a powerful alias and plugin ecosystem.

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Listary Alternative

A modern, beautiful, and highly extensible open-source alternative to commercial file search launchers.

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Leverages the Windows USN Journal and MFT to read millions of files in seconds, lightweight and system-shared via a background service.

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Type-ahead fuzzy matching with prefix/suffix/exact/exclude operators, plus pinyin aliasing for Chinese filenames — see it all in the User Manual.

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Every hotkey — toggle window, next/previous item, actions menu, QuickLook preview — can be rebound to fit your workflow.

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Open SDK architecture allowing easy creation of custom search providers, aliases, context-menu actions, and UI extensions.

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A SYSTEM-level background indexing service is kept separate from the session-level user App UI, for maximum security and performance.