Digger

Cross platform text search tool for multiple file types

Digger is a GUI text search tool that allows you to search for keyword matches in the contents of your files. Digger supports proprietary file types such as pdf and docx, as well as common text-based file types such as txt, md, rs, tsx, etc...

Download

Find the latest releases here for Windows and MacOS (Apple Silicon).

Performance

Unscientific benchmark

Comparing Digger to ripgrep: searching for "hello" or "world" in rust files from the home directory. The results are returned sorted.

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Digger

• Extensions: rs
• "hello" -optional
• "world" -optional

ripgrep

$ rg "hello|world" -trust -sort path --stats

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Digger time taken: 0.45s

ripgrep time taken: 0.75s

This is a quite a biased comparison, as ripgrep is using a regex engine, whereas Digger only uses Aho-Corasick. Additionally, ripgrep does not sort it's output by default, and sorting will cause a performance penalty.

Tech Stack

Digger is a Tauri based application. The frontend is built with React + TypeScript, and the backend is written in Rust.