Eidos
A Windows filesystem search and storage-analytics tool combining Everything-class instant search with content indexing and live change tracking, built in Rust for developers and power users.
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Description
Finding a file by name on Windows is fast if you use the right tool, but finding a file by what's *inside* it, or seeing which folders are eating your disk space, usually means juggling three separate apps. Eidos tries to do all three — name search, content search, and storage analytics — in one tool.
Eidos maintains a canonical catalog of every file object on the system with a stable identity, using native NTFS enumeration for Everything-class search speed and the Windows USN journal for sub-second live change visibility. Content indexing runs on Tantivy, the same class of search engine used in several modern search tools, and it exposes a Web UI, a CLI, and an HTTP API sharing one query language. It's built in Rust with a SQLite backend, released under AGPL-3.0, and is explicitly early-stage — the project's own roadmap targets v0.5 as its first real release.
💬 Our review
The short version: Eidos is ambitious for a young project — it's trying to replace three specialized tools (fast name search, content search, and storage analysis) with one coherent system, and the technical foundation (Rust, Tantivy, USN journal) is sound for that goal.
Against Everything, the long-reigning king of instant Windows file search, Eidos adds content indexing and storage analytics that Everything doesn't offer, but Everything is more mature, more battle-tested, and has a much larger user base. Against dtSearch (a paid, enterprise content-search tool) Eidos is free and open source, which is a real advantage if you don't need enterprise support. Given it's pre-1.0 with no stable release yet, it's best suited to developers and power users comfortable running early software and filing bugs, not yet a safe default for someone who just wants reliable file search today — for that, Everything alone remains the safer, more proven choice.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit et open source (licence AGPL-3.0), pas de tarification commerciale.
Pros
Combine recherche par nom, recherche de contenu et analytique stockage en un outil
Visibilité des changements en direct via le journal USN (sub-seconde)
Gratuit et open source, écrit en Rust avec backend SQLite
Interfaces multiples partageant un même langage de requête (Web, CLI, API)
Cons
Projet en développement précoce, pas encore de version stable (v0.5 visée)
Moins mature et éprouvé qu'Everything
Windows uniquement