ripgrep-all vs ack: catalog facts
 ripgrep-all |  ack |
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Free Free and open source under the AGPL. |
Free Free and open source. |
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Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line |
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line |
- Searches PDFs, Office documents, EPUBs, SQLite databases and subtitles, not just text
- Descends recursively into archives and matches inside them
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- Built for searching source code rather than general text
- Full Perl regular expressions
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- 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
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- Needs a Perl interpreter
- Newer tools such as ripgrep are typically faster on very large trees
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Downloadable app |
Downloadable app |
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Open source |
Open source |
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License: AGPL-3.0 |
License: Artistic-2.0 |
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No account needed |
No account needed |
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Works offline |
Works offline |
Checked September 21, 2026 | Checked September 23, 2026 |
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