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grep.app vs tgrep: catalog facts
grep.app	tgrep
Best for: Developers looking for real-world usage examples in public code	Best for: Developers who search very large repositories many times a day
Free Free to use in the browser; no paid plan is listed.	Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.
Web	Windows, Command line
Searches code, files and paths across many repositories at once Nothing to install or clone All 3 strengths for grep.app Searches code, files and paths across many repositories at once Nothing to install or clone No account needed	Index makes repeated searches over large codebases fast Regular expression search All 4 strengths for tgrep Index makes repeated searches over large codebases fast Regular expression search Runs entirely locally Actively maintained by Microsoft
Covers public GitHub repositories only Limited to about a million indexed repositories	Needs a background server and index, unlike plain grep or ripgrep Benefit is mainly on very large codebases
Web application	Downloadable app
Not open source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Needs internet	Offline features available
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for grep.app grep.app Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for tgrep github.com/microsoft/tgrep Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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