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Recoll

Recoll is a search engine, available on Linux: full-text search and attachments.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

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Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Flathub
License: GPL-2.0+ — Open source (copyleft)confirmed by Flathub
Open source: Yes
Commercial use: Yesconfirmed by Flathub, Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms)
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Flathub
Watermark: Not applicable
Ads: not documented
Platforms: LinuxEstablished by Linux: Flathub
Publisher: Jean-Francois Dockes
Latest version: 1.44.1 (22 July 2026)
Latest activity: 8 November 2026
Source code: framagit.org/medoc92/recoll

Overview

Recoll is a search engine, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and on its official website: full-text search and attachments.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Full-text search for your desktop” — Flathub, 10 November 2026
“Recoll is a desktop document search application for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS, based on the Xapian search engine library.” — official website, 10 November 2026
“It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression.” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Recoll is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-2.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

Recoll is a document indexer. It finds keywords inside documents text as well as file names. It can search most document formats. It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression. One click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 7 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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