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ripgrep vs ripgrep-all: catalog facts
ripgrep	ripgrep-all
Free Free and open source, dual licensed under the Unlicense or the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Several times faster than grep and git grep on a large tree Respects gitignore, so results are relevant by default	Searches PDFs, Office documents, EPUBs, SQLite databases and subtitles, not just text Descends recursively into archives and matches inside them
Command line only The gitignore defaults surprise people until they learn the -u flags	Depends on external tools such as pandoc, poppler-utils and ffmpeg for the adapters First run over a large collection is slow until the cache is built
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Unlicense OR MIT	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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