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ugrep vs ripgrep-all: catalog facts
ugrep	ripgrep-all
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Compatible with grep options Interactive text interface for building queries	Searches PDFs, Office documents, EPUBs, SQLite databases and subtitles, not just text Descends recursively into archives and matches inside them
Large option set takes time to learn Interactive interface is terminal-only	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: BSD-3-Clause	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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