Samurai Search vs Filerev for Google Drive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Samurai Search
Efficiently search text and PDF files across your device, iCloud, and external storage. Preview matched files or open them in other applications. Supports advanced search options like regular expressions.
- Search text and PDF files
- iCloud and external storage support
- File preview
- Regular expression support
- Customizable file types
- Saved search locations
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Search your iOS device or iCloud for text, source code, plain text files, and PDFs. Find matches inside files and preview results instantly, or open any matched file in your favourite editing or viewing app. Flexible search options: whole word, case sensitive (all file types), and regular expressions (for text files). Choose which files to include by selecting standard or custom text file types, or by searching filenames that match a pattern. Select where to search from On My iPad, iCloud Drive, or external file providers such as SMB and USB folders. When possible, the app retains saved search selections so you can quickly repeat the same searches later. If you search selected folders in iCloud Drive, matching iCloud files are synced to your device before searching, ensuring fast local results. Searching plain text files is extremely fast and memory efficient. PDF search speed depends on the document content and can be slow. Note also that PDF search may consume large amounts of memory which can cause Samurai Search to crash.
Filerev for Google Drive
This app helps you organize your Google Drive by identifying and managing duplicate, large, hidden, and empty files and folders. It provides a comprehensive report of your storage usage and allows for bulk deletion to free up space.
- Find duplicate files
- Identify large files and folders
- Locate hidden and empty files/folders
- Bulk delete files and folders
- Storage usage report
- Filter by file type and custom criteria
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Organize your Google Drive files with Filerev and reduce your storage usage. This software will find your duplicate files, large files, large folders, hidden files, empty folders and so much more. It displays your files in an organized way so you can quickly see the files that are cluttering up your Google Drive account. When you first log in to the Filerev app with your Google account the software will scan your files and then present you with a report of how your storage is being used. The software will show your duplicate files, large files, hidden files, large folders, empty folders and let you browse files by specific file types. You can use filters to further drill down to specific files and folders. It can also bulk delete files and folders, making tasks like removing thousands of duplicate files a breeze. After your scan is complete you will be presented with a report of your storage usage. You will see a graph showing your storage usage by Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos as well as the number of files and folders that exist in your account. Then you will see your files in specific categories such as: - Duplicate Files - Hidden Files - Empty Files - Files Larger than X MB - Files Older than X years - Files not owned by me - Temporary Files - Files by Extension - Custom Files, where you can view files by custom criteria. - Google Drive Trash In each category, you will see the total storage space that your files are consuming and how many files are in the category. Below the files there is another category for your folders where you will see: - Folders Larger than X MB - Empty Folders - Custom Folders where you can filter folders by custom criteria. You can also browse your files by specific file types. The file types are first broken down into high-level types such as: - Documents - Photos & Images** - Audio - Video - Archive (zip) - Other ** Please note, you can find and remove photos that exist in Google Drive but Filerev does not currently find files in Google Photos. When you view any one of these categories you will see your files further broken down into categories for specific file types (Microsoft Word, PDF, JPG, Excel, Google Sheets, Powerpoint, etc). When you view your files or folders in any of the categories listed above you will be presented with information about each file and folder. You can easily clear the clutter from your Google Drive account by selecting specific files or folders. You can also use the bulk delete feature to remove specific files or folders with a simple click. * PRICING * With the free plan, you can scan up to 1 million files in your Google Drive account and view how your storage is being used. You can see the number of duplicate files, empty folders, large folders and more that are taking up space in your Google Drive account. Then each month, you can delete up to 100 files and folders. Upgrade to a paid plan that starts for as little as 4 per month (paid annually) to unlock more features. The paid plans have additional features, and you can scan more files, delete more files and view large folders and empty folders. * SECURE & PRIVATE * We care about the privacy of your data and are committed to protecting it. Our motivation is to help you organize your Google Drive account, and we will not use your information for anything other than that. Everything is transferred over a secure SSL connection, and we encrypt any account information that we store. You can read more about this in our Privacy Policy (https://filerev.com/privacy) and our terms (https://filerev.com/terms). We also submit Filerev to security reviews and audits to ensure your data stays safe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Samurai Search at 100% against Filerev for Google Drive's 0%. Samurai Search also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Filerev for Google Drive sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month. Samurai Search asks for nothing beyond the download.
Samurai Search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Samurai Search has 25 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Samurai Search's written reviews are positive against 0% of Filerev for Google Drive's.
Samurai Search ships an update every 5 days, Filerev for Google Drive monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Samurai Search | Filerev for Google Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (25 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Rourke | Filerev |
Customer experience
Samurai Search
Filerev for Google Drive
In-app purchases
Samurai Search
No in-app purchases
Filerev for Google Drive
- Basic Plan$10.001 Month
- Standard Plan$20.001 Month
- Premium Plan$30.001 Month
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- Basic Plan$48.001 Year
- Standard Plan$96.001 Year
- Premium Plan$143.991 Year
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