Minimalistic text editing with advanced search and replace feature powered by regex with many powerful filters and query modes.
Text Filter Portable is a freeware text search app and text editor developed by MuseTips for Windows. It's advanced, portable, minimalistic, well-designed and straightforward.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below. We've also created some screenshots of Text Filter Portable to illustrate the user interface and show the overall usage and features of this text search program.
Free text software for filtering text and files quickly with regex
MuseTips Text Filter is a free, lightweight and portable Windows software that lets you read, search and filter text files with ease.
Text lines are instantly filtered as you type your search phrase, with all matched terms highlighted in a contrasting color.
While typing into the search box, the program lists searched phrases for you to choose from. This makes text search easier and faster.
You can do regex searching by checking Regex Query in Search menu.
For large text files, regex query may be noticeably slow. In this case, you can uncheck the Search As You Type option in Search menu.
Besides regex query, you can also do Naive Query and Smart Query.
Naive Query lets you search anywhere in the document for the entered text, while Smart Query allows for matches on word boundaries only.
You can choose to hide either matched or unmatched lines for an easier text view.
Features of Text Filter Portable
- Bookmarks: Bookmark frequently used searches.
- File types: Search across multiple file types including .doc, .txt, .pdf, .html, .rtf, .xls and more.
- Filters: Filter search results by file size, date modified, or other criteria.
- Folders: Search multiple folders and subfolders.
- Highlighting: Highlight search terms in search results.
- History: Save and recall search histories.
- Preview: Preview search results in the main window.
- Regular expressions: Use regular expressions for even more powerful searching.
- Results: View search results in a list with file names and locations.
- Results export: Export search results to a text file.
- Search exclusions: Exclude certain file types or folders from searches.
- Search options: Customize search options such as case sensitivity and search type.
- Shortcuts: Create shortcuts to quickly launch searches.
- Text search: Quickly find any text string in multiple files.
- Wildcards: Use wildcards for more powerful searching.
Compatibility and License
Text Filter Portable is provided under a freeware license on Windows from text editors with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 2.1.0.3629 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can Text Filter Portable run on?
Text Filter Portable can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It comes in both 32-bit and 64-bit downloads.
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