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Hound vs grep.app: catalog facts
Hound	grep.app
Best for: Teams searching code across many internal repositories	Best for: Developers looking for real-world usage examples in public code
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free to use in the browser; no paid plan is listed.
Web, Self-hosted	Web
Regular expression search across many repositories Indexes are kept up to date automatically All 4 strengths for Hound Regular expression search across many repositories Indexes are kept up to date automatically Simple JSON configuration Runs from source or Docker	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
Must be built or deployed yourself Search only, no code navigation or cross-references	Covers public GitHub repositories only Limited to about a million indexed repositories
Self-hosted	Web application
Open source	Not open source
License: MIT	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Offline features available	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Sources for Hound github.com/hound-search/hound Catalog checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Sources for grep.app grep.app Catalog checked October 2, 2026

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