UltraFileSearch is available in two Editions: Standard (Shareware) and Lite (Freeware).
Each Edition is also available in Portable Version that can be copied to a removable device and does not leave traces on your computer, but cannot be launched from the context menu of Windows® Explorer.
The comparison list below shows which features are available in the two Editions of UltraFileSearch.
| Features | Lite | Standard |
| General | ||
| ■ Easy, User friendly and intuitive interface. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ The search is done without the need to use background indexing. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ No waste of system resources and of extra space on disk. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Can be launched directly from Windows® Explorer shell context menu. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Can Search any NTFS or FAT File System, supported by the Operating System. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Search in every kind of Drive: Internal, External, Network, CD-ROM, DVD, etc. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Full support to Unicode characters. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Special | ||
| ■ Ability to calculate the Size of the Folders. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Multi Rename that lets you Edit and Rename a list of Files at once. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Batch Rename that lets you Rename a list of Files according to certain rules. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Files | ||
| ■ Search Files or Files and Folders or only Folders. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Allows you to specify the File Name Mask in 2 ways: "Simple" and "Wildcards". | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Allows you to enter more File Name Masks at the same time. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Folders | ||
| ■ Search in Subfolders and may include Hidden Subfolders. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Drag & Drop Folders support from other Applications to "Search Path" Box. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Allows you to quickly select the Local or Network Drives or of single Drive. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Allows you to enter more Drives and/or Folders at the same time. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Accepts single or multiple "Environment Variables" (e.g. %APPDATA%) | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Supports UNC Network Path Names (i.e. \\ComputerName\FolderName). | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Supports for Long Path Names (lengths > 260 characters). | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Ability to define a multi-Folder that contains a list of Folders and/or Drives. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Allows you to assign a mnemonic name to the multi-Folder. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Possibility to define the Folders to be Excluded from all searches. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Possibility to set more Filters on the Folders in which the search is performed. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Text | ||
| ■ Search in Plain Text Files and in Binary Files looking in their Raw Format. (e.g. txt, html, csv, exe, dll, obj etc.) | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Search in Encoded Text Documents using iFilter Add-ons to find the text. (e.g. PDF, XLS, DOC, XLSX, DOCX etc.) | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Allows you to specify the Text Masks in 2 ways: "Words" and "Phrases". | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Ability to search more Phrases and Words together. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Text search Options: Entire/Partial Word(s)/Phrase(s) and Match Case. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Ability to find files that do not contain specified Words and Phrases. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Can ignore Files of certain Types: Hidden, System, Image, Audio, Video. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Date and Size | ||
| ■ Filter for Files Newer than or Older than or within a specific Date range. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Possibility to select the Date Range on the basis of hours, Minutes, Seconds. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Can filter for "Modified", "Creation" and "Last Access" Date at the same time. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Filter for Files Larger than or Smaller than or within a specific Size range. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Possibility to select the Size Range on the basis of Bytes, KB, MB, GB. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Attributes | ||
| ■ Can choose the match type for the attributes to search for (Any, All, Only). | ![]() | ![]() |
| Results Window | ||
| ■ Possibility to append results of consecutive searches. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ The rows of the results are numbered for an easy recognition. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ The results can be put in order by column: upward, downward or initial. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Ability to perform incremental search in the Results. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Search for Column in the Results and positioning on the found Item. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ The Results window supports Windows® Explorer functionality (e.g. icons, context menus). | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Specific actions can be carried out on the results (e.g. Open Folder, Open Containing Folder). | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Multi-select support in order to perform editing on multiple Items. (e.g. Cut, Copy, Copy to Folder, Move to Folder, Rename, Delete etc.). | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Drag & Drop Support from Results Items to other Applications. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Ability to change the column layout (position, size, visibility). | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Ability to zoom the text for better legibility. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Exports Results | ||
| ■ The results can be exported in various File formats. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Plain Text (TXT), Tab Delimited Text (TXT) | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Web Page (HTML) | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Web Page with Links (HTML), XML Document (XML) | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Comma Separated Values (CSV) | ![]() | ![]() |
| Statistics visualization | ||
| ■ Progress state visualization: Files and Folders found and Total Size. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Display of the main Search Filters in the Window Caption and in the Taskbar. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Shows the statistics of the last search performed. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Options | ||
| ■ Can choose which types of MRU Items to save and (or) load. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Can choose which types of Search Parameters to save and (or) load. | ![]() | ![]() |
| ■ Possibility to choose the destination Directory of the Export command. | ![]() | ![]() |
| Software license | (Freeware) | (Shareware) |
| You can download the Software or purchase the License to use | Download | Purchase |