Filehound: Search Inside Any File

Find files by their contents, not just their names. Filehound is a powerful offline file search app that helps you search inside PDFs, images, Office documents, text files, and more — all from your Android device.

Stop wasting time opening files one by one to find the information you need. Filehound indexes supported files locally so you can search for words and phrases and quickly locate relevant documents.

## 🔎 Full-Text File Search

Search inside your files instead of relying only on filenames. Filehound's full-text search makes it easier to find documents even when you don't remember what they were called.

• Search for words and phrases within supported files.
• Find documents using their contents.
• Search filenames, file extensions, and paths.
• Discover relevant files from a single search interface.
• Use fast, indexed search to retrieve results efficiently.

## 📄 Search Inside PDFs and Office Documents

Looking for a specific detail buried inside a document? Search across supported document formats without manually opening every file.

• PDF search — find documents containing specific words or phrases.
• Word documents — search supported DOCX files.
• Text files — search TXT, Markdown, JSON, and supported source code files.
• Multi-format search — find relevant content across supported file types from one place.

## 🖼️ Search Text in Images

Need to find an image containing particular text? Filehound supports indexing text extracted from supported images, where OCR is available in your implementation.

This can help you locate images containing useful information, rather than searching through them individually.

## ⚡ Fast, Indexed Search

Filehound uses SQLite full-text indexing to make searching large collections of supported files efficient.

Instead of repeatedly scanning every document for each query, Filehound searches its local index to retrieve matching results.

• Fast full-text queries.
• Relevance-based result ranking.
• Batched indexing for efficient database updates.
• Background indexing and synchronization.
• A unified search experience across supported file types.

Actual performance depends on your device, the number and size of files, and the time required to extract their contents.

## 🔒 Private, On-Device Search

Your files are personal. Filehound is designed to index and search supported file contents locally on your device without uploading your document index to a cloud search server.

• No cloud-based file indexing service.
• Search your local index without sending queries to a remote search server.
• Manage your local index from within the app.
• Clear indexed data when you want to remove it.

Filehound integrates advertising services, which may process certain device or advertising data under their own applicable privacy disclosures. See the app's privacy policy for details.

## 🔄 Background Indexing

Keep your searchable index updated with background synchronization.

Filehound uses Android background-work scheduling to maintain its index. Actual execution timing depends on Android's scheduling, battery restrictions, permissions, and device settings.

## 🎯 Who Is Filehound For?

Filehound is useful for anyone who stores information across many files:

• Students searching lecture notes, assignments, and study documents.
• Professionals finding details in reports, PDFs, and Word documents.
• Developers searching source code and technical notes.
• Freelancers organizing contracts, invoices, and project files.
• Anyone who wants to find information hidden inside a large collection of local files.

## 🐾 Find It Faster with Filehound

Search inside supported PDFs, images, Office documents, text files, and more from one convenient Android app.

Download Filehound and make your local files easier to search.

Filehound — Search your files. Find what matters.