Instant file name search for Linux, in the spirit of Everything by voidtools.
Index 5 million files in 3 seconds. Find any of them before you finish typing.
wget https://github.com/srcmkr/anything/releases/latest/download/anything_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./anything_amd64.debOther distributions: download the AppImage, make it executable and start it.
- Results while you type, across millions of files: each keystroke searches the whole index and shows the result within about 20 ms.
- One click away in the tray; Esc hides it again.
- Always current: new, renamed and deleted files show up within seconds.
- Every disk, only your files: an optional system service indexes all local disks once for everybody, and each user sees only what they could open themselves.
- A grid with previews of pictures, videos and PDFs.
- Act on what you find: open, open with, show in folder, copy, move to the trash with undo, properties.
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Every release has three files:
| For | File | Then |
|---|---|---|
| Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint | anything_<version>_amd64.deb |
sudo apt install ./anything_*_amd64.deb |
| Any other distribution | Anything-<version>-x86_64.AppImage |
chmod +x Anything-*.AppImage && ./Anything-*.AppImage |
| By hand | anything-<version>-x86_64-linux.tar.gz |
Unpack, start ./anything, then Settings → About → Install for all users |
The Debian package sets up the search service right away. With the AppImage or the archive, turn it on under Settings → Service; without it, Anything indexes your own files by itself. New versions are offered in the app and installed on request.
You need a tray that supports StatusNotifierItem (KDE, Cinnamon, XFCE, GNOME with the AppIndicator extension). Anything is developed on X11; Wayland is not well tested yet.
Terms are separated by spaces and must all match; case does not matter.
| You type | Finds |
|---|---|
rechnung |
names containing it anywhere: Rechnung-123.pdf, Sammelrechnung.pdf |
*.pdf |
names ending in .pdf: a term with * must match the whole name |
rechnung*.pdf |
Rechnung-123.pdf, but not 123-Rechnung.pdf |
rechnung *.pdf |
names matching both terms |
↓ moves into the results, Enter opens,
Ctrl+Enter shows the folder, Del moves to the
trash, Ctrl+2 switches to the grid,
Ctrl+, opens the settings. Right-click a result for
everything else. There is also a command line client: any rechnung '*.pdf'.
On a desktop with 5.5 million files, a full scan takes about three seconds and a search about ten milliseconds; the window keeps up with a 120 Hz display while scrolling. Numbers and how to measure them yourself: docs/performance.md.
Anything never sends your file names anywhere. Previews are made in a sandbox, deleting asks or can be undone, and updates are signed and checked before they are installed: docs/security.md.
Anything speaks English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Chinese (simplified).
Bug reports, ideas, translations and pull requests are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for building from source, the layout of the code and how releases are made. Settings → About → Copy info puts version and system details on the clipboard for a bug report, without any file names.
Anything exists because of Everything by voidtools (David Carpenter). It is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by voidtools. Built with GPUI, the UI framework of the Zed editor, and gpui-component.
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option. Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.