diff --git a/app/apps/transactions/tests/test_transaction_search.py b/app/apps/transactions/tests/test_transaction_search.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6b02e95b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/apps/transactions/tests/test_transaction_search.py
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+from datetime import timedelta
+from decimal import Decimal
+
+from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
+from django.test import TestCase
+from django.urls import reverse
+from django.utils import timezone
+
+from apps.accounts.models import Account
+from apps.currencies.models import Currency
+from apps.transactions.models import (
+    Transaction,
+    TransactionCategory,
+    TransactionEntity,
+    TransactionTag,
+)
+
+
+class TransactionSearchTests(TestCase):
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.user = get_user_model().objects.create_user(
+            email="search@test.com", password="pass"
+        )
+        self.client.login(username="search@test.com", password="pass")
+        self.user.settings.date_format = "d/m/Y"
+        self.user.settings.number_format = "DC"
+        self.user.settings.save()
+
+        currency = Currency.objects.create(code="BRL", name="Real", decimal_places=2)
+        self.account = Account.objects.create(name="Wallet", currency=currency)
+        self.today = timezone.localdate(timezone.now())
+
+    def make(self, days, description="", amount="10", **kwargs):
+        return Transaction.objects.create(
+            account=self.account,
+            type=Transaction.Type.EXPENSE,
+            date=self.today + timedelta(days=days),
+            reference_date=(self.today + timedelta(days=days)).replace(day=1),
+            amount=Decimal(amount),
+            description=description,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+
+    def search(self, q=""):
+        response = self.client.get(reverse("transactions_search"), {"q": q})
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
+        return [row["description"] for row in response.json()]
+
+    def test_order_matches_monthly_view(self):
+        for days, name in [(-30, "old"), (-2, "recent"), (-1, "yesterday"),
+                           (10, "far"), (2, "soon"), (1, "tomorrow"), (0, "today")]:
+            self.make(days, name)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            self.search(),
+            ["today", "tomorrow", "yesterday", "soon", "far", "recent", "old"],
+        )
+
+    def test_search_fields(self):
+        t = self.make(-5, "Groceries", amount="1234.56")
+        t.category = TransactionCategory.objects.create(name="Food")
+        t.save()
+        t.tags.add(TransactionTag.objects.create(name="home"),
+                   TransactionTag.objects.create(name="weekly"))
+        t.entities.add(TransactionEntity.objects.create(name="Market"))
+        self.make(-6, "Other", amount="5")
+
+        day = (self.today - timedelta(days=5))
+        for q in ["food", "market", "1.234,56", "1234",
+                  day.strftime("%d/%m/%Y"), day.strftime("%d/%m"),
+                  "home weekly", "groceries food"]:
+            self.assertEqual(self.search(q), ["Groceries"], q)
+
+        self.assertEqual(self.search("wallet"), ["Groceries", "Other"])
+        self.assertEqual(self.search("groceries nomatch"), [])
diff --git a/app/apps/transactions/utils/select_search.py b/app/apps/transactions/utils/select_search.py
index 41b6f6c2..161383a5 100644
--- a/app/apps/transactions/utils/select_search.py
+++ b/app/apps/transactions/utils/select_search.py
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
+import datetime
+import re
+from decimal import Decimal, InvalidOperation
+
+from apps.common.functions.format import get_format
+from apps.common.utils.django import django_to_python_datetime
 from apps.transactions.templatetags.currency_display import currency_display
+from django.db.models import Q
 from django.template.defaultfilters import date as date_filter
 
 
@@ -28,3 +35,61 @@ def transaction_option(t):
         "tags": [tag.name for tag in t.tags.all()],
         "entities": [entity.name for entity in t.entities.all()],
     }
+
+
+def _parse_date(term):
+    """Match a term against the user's date format; without a year it matches any year."""
+    fmt = django_to_python_datetime(get_format("SHORT_DATE_FORMAT"))
+    try:
+        return Q(date=datetime.datetime.strptime(term, fmt).date())
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+    # Drop the year and its adjacent separator, e.g. "%d/%m/%Y" -> "%d/%m"
+    no_year = re.sub(r"[^%\w]?%[Yy][^%\w]?", "", fmt, count=1).strip()
+    if no_year == fmt or not no_year:
+        return None
+    try:
+        # 2000 is a leap year, so 29/02 parses
+        parsed = datetime.datetime.strptime(f"{term} 2000", f"{no_year} %Y")
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+    return Q(date__day=parsed.day, date__month=parsed.month)
+
+
+def _parse_amount(term):
+    if not re.fullmatch(r"[\d.,\s]*\d[\d.,\s]*", term):
+        return None
+    thousand = get_format("THOUSAND_SEPARATOR")
+    decimal = get_format("DECIMAL_SEPARATOR")
+    normalized = term.replace(thousand, "").replace(decimal, ".")
+    try:
+        value = Decimal(normalized)
+    except InvalidOperation:
+        return None
+    if decimal not in term:
+        # Whole number: "12" finds 12.00 to 12.99
+        return Q(amount__gte=value, amount__lt=value + 1)
+    return Q(amount=value)
+
+
+def search_transactions(queryset, search_term):
+    """Every word must match some field (description, category, entity, date, amount...)."""
+    matches = queryset.model.objects.all()
+    for term in search_term.split():
+        term_q = (
+            Q(description__icontains=term)
+            | Q(notes__icontains=term)
+            | Q(internal_note__icontains=term)
+            | Q(tags__name__icontains=term)
+            | Q(entities__name__icontains=term)
+            | Q(category__name__icontains=term)
+            | Q(account__name__icontains=term)
+            | Q(account__group__name__icontains=term)
+        )
+        for extra in (_parse_date(term), _parse_amount(term)):
+            if extra is not None:
+                term_q |= extra
+        # One filter() per word so different words can match different tags/entities
+        matches = matches.filter(term_q)
+    # id__in avoids duplicate rows from the tag/entity joins
+    return queryset.filter(id__in=matches.values("id"))
diff --git a/app/apps/transactions/views/transactions.py b/app/apps/transactions/views/transactions.py
index 1b610ea3..fa2f0207 100644
--- a/app/apps/transactions/views/transactions.py
+++ b/app/apps/transactions/views/transactions.py
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ from apps.transactions.utils.calculations import (
     calculate_percentage_distribution,
 )
 from apps.transactions.utils.default_ordering import default_order
-from apps.transactions.utils.select_search import transaction_option
+from apps.transactions.utils.select_search import (
+    search_transactions,
+    transaction_option,
+)
 from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
 from django.contrib import messages
 from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
@@ -987,13 +990,7 @@ def get_recent_transactions(request, filter_type=None):
         queryset = queryset.filter(type=Transaction.Type.INCOME)
 
     if search_term:
-        queryset = queryset.filter(
-            Q(description__icontains=search_term)
-            | Q(notes__icontains=search_term)
-            | Q(internal_note__icontains=search_term)
-            | Q(tags__name__icontains=search_term)
-            | Q(category__name__icontains=search_term)
-        )
+        queryset = search_transactions(queryset, search_term)
 
     # Today, tomorrow, yesterday, then upcoming (soonest first), then past (newest first)
     queryset = (