Search for documents based on their content
WinFindr has a native, built-in support for searching inside PDF, epub ebooks, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other document files including OpenOffice and LibreOffice files.
WinFindr can find files not only based on their filenames, but also based on their content.
The content search feature can also be used with WinFindr’s natural language processing features, which allows you to search for data even when you are not sure about the exact filename or the exact content of the file.
Advanced Windows File Search
You can search for data with an advanced set of features, options and filters.
Use multiple search words at the same time, search by file type, search by file size, search by file attributes, search by file content, search by registry values or registry data types.
WinFindr has an easy-to-use, no-nonsense user interface that allows you to search for data your way.
Windows Search made for you!
WinFindr has been developed to be as customizable as possible.
Filter the search results, sort them, and save your most common searches for later.
WinFindr can be customized to look and feel the way you want it to.
Here are some of the features that make WinFindr unique:
Everything in one place
WinFindr allows you to search for files, folders, registry keys and registry entries and see the results in one place.
Search and Filter
Search, filter and sort the results to find exactly what you’re looking for. Supports searching with normal search words, file masks (wildcards) and regular expressions, all at the same time, too!
Search inside documents
WinFindr has a built-in support for searching inside PDF, epub ebooks, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
and other document files including OpenOffice and LibreOffice files.
You can read more about how to find documents by content in the How to find documents by content tutorial.
Search inside ZIP and RAR files
WinFindr has a built-in support for searching inside ZIP and RAR files.
You can read more about how to find files inside ZIP and RAR files in the How to find files inside ZIP and RAR files
tutorial.
Search files by their metadata
Search for files based on their metadata. For example, if your mp3 music file collection includes the mp3 metadata,
you can search for songs based on their album name and other metadata.
The metadata support also includes searching for image files based on their metadata.
Proximity search
For example, search for files whose name (or content) includes search words “cute” and “cat” and both terms must be found at most, say, 6 words apart.
You can read more about how to find files by proximity search in the How to find files by proximity search tutorial.
Natural language search
Supports a natural search option to ignore special characters between words. For example, “cute cat” will match “cute-cat.jpg” and “cute_cat.png” and so on.
Also supports a natural search option to ignore accented characters. For example, a search term “cafe” will match “The best cafés in Braga.pdf”.
And supports a natural search option to ignore derived words and conjugations in English. For example, a search term “invoice” will match “Invoicing.pdf”.
WinFindr also supports phonetic search. For example, a search term “peace” will match “piece.pdf” because they sound similar.
You can read more about how to find files by natural language search in the How to find files by natural language search tutorial.
Log and save results
Save the found results as a report file in TXT, CSV or HTML file format. Also supports producing the results as a text-only listing directly in the WinFindr UI.
Highly customizable
Comes as a single executable portable version and a setup version.
Portable or setup
Comes as a single executable portable version and a setup version.
WinFindr comes with 29 builtin translations
Includes a builtin support for 29 translations: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. No Russian, though. You know why.
Lightweight
All these features, and still, the Portable version is only 3.1 MB!
Yes, I know, storage space is cheap, so why even bother making software optimized? Because I don’t want to waste your computer’s resources.
No nonsense - just a great Windows file search tool!
There are no bells and whistles in WinFindr. It is simple but efficient. This is how it looks like:
The main screen shows all the search options. More screenshots are available on the screenshots page.
WinFindr is a great Windows file search tool. If you want to see more examples what it can do, check out the tutorials section.
Download WinFindr
What are you waiting for? Download WinFindr now. It won’t run your errands, but it’ll free up the time you need to actually do them!
Download size: 3.1 MB |
Latest version: 1.8 |
Last updated: July 17th, 2025
Works in Windows 11, 10, 8 and 7. Freeware.
