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tgrep vs Zoekt: catalog facts
tgrep	Zoekt
Free Free and open source under the MIT licence.	Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
Windows, Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Index makes repeated searches over large codebases fast Regular expression search	Fast substring and regex search over large codebases Ranking uses symbol information
Needs a background server and index, unlike plain grep or ripgrep Benefit is mainly on very large codebases	Installed with go install; no packaged releases Works best with Universal ctags installed for symbol ranking
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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