Top 15 Rust fuzzy-search Projects

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1. MeiliSearch

   1 159 58,959 9.9 Rust

   A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

   

   Project mention: Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-07-02

   Yeah, and I also added support for parallel read your own writes where you can write tons of entries and spawn multi children read-only transactions from your writes where transaction and read from them in parallel.

   We use this in Meilisearch [1] to post-process cache for our most common prefixes i.e., "w" will match "work", "word"... and computing this requires doing large unions of the documents matching those words.

   Being able to do it in parallel is necessary, especially when you have billions of entries to operate on.

   [1]: https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch

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3. broot

   2 46 12,882 8.8 Rust

   A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

   

   Project mention: 15 rust tools to level up your Linux terminal | dev.to | 2025-09-15

4. television

   3 4 6,173 9.5 Rust

   A very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder.

   

5. nucleo

   4 3 1,484 2.9 Rust

   A fast and convenient fuzzy matcher library for rust

   

   Project mention: I built a local-only shell history manager in Rust with AI agent tracking | dev.to | 2026-03-14

   Fuzzy search powered by nucleo (same engine as Helix editor). Features:

6. zk

   5 7 103 4.8 Rust

   A note-taking tool based on the famous Zettelkasten method (by terror)

   

7. supdock

   6 1 87 5.0 Rust

   What's Up, Doc(ker)? A convenient way to interact with the docker daemon using prompts.

   

8. tap

   7 0 62 3.7 Rust

   A terminal-based music player written in Rust, with fuzzy search (fzf-style) to browse and play your audio library. (by timdubbins)

   

9. git-smart-checkout

   8 1 56 1.3 Rust

   🧠 A command-line utility for switching git branches more easily. Switch branches interactively or use a fuzzy search to find that long-forgotten branch name.

   

10. trx

    9 3 42 9.2 Rust

    TUI package manager (by pie-314)

    

    Project mention: Shipping Docs, Rust Tooling, and a Week of Deep Reviews | dev.to | 2026-07-07

    If you look at the numbers, I added over 1,500 lines and only deleted about 160. Usually, I’m a fan of the "less is more" refactoring approach, but this was a pure growth week. Most of those additions were the mdBook documentation site. I wanted a place where users (and I) could actually see the vision for the tool, and mdBook is just so snappy for Rust projects. It feels right.

11. cargo-select

    10 2 18 0.0 Rust

    Cargo subcommand to easily run targets/examples

    

12. symspell_rs

    11 1 14 7.3 Rust

    SymSpell: 1 million times faster spelling correction & fuzzy search through Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm

    

    Project mention: Show HN: A spell-checker 380x faster than Hunspell, 5x faster than SymSpell | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-06

13. caniuse-rs

    12 2 5 0.0 Rust

    A command line client and Alfred workflow for caniuse.com, written in Rust 🦀

    

14. vfv

    13 1 3 7.0 Rust

    vfv - Vive File Viewer: Ultra-lightweight terminal file viewer for vibe coding. Fuzzy search, syntax highlighting, Vim keybindings.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Vfv – Ultra-lightweight terminal file viewer for vibe coding | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-06

15. rapid-fuzzy

    14 1 2 9.7 Rust

    Rust-powered fuzzy search and string distance for JavaScript/TypeScript. 10-50x faster than fuse.js/leven.

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Rapid-fuzzy – Fuzzy search for JavaScript with Rust (native and WASM) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-24

    - Query syntax: exclude (!term), prefix (^term), exact ('term)

    Try it in the browser: https://derodero24.github.io/rapid-fuzzy/

    GitHub: https://github.com/derodero24/rapid-fuzzy

    A couple of honest caveats:

    - For single-pair Levenshtein, pure-JS implementations like

16. ctrlr

    15 1 0 - Rust

    Turn your shell history into a searchable command palette (by capydev42)

    

    Project mention: Show HN: Ctrlr – erminal command manager with tags, collections and fuzzy search | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-04

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