Flashlight

The missing plugin system for Spotlight. Flashlight is an app that supercharges OS X's built-in search. Check the weather, search the web, send an iMessage, find an...

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Mac OS X

The missing plugin system for Spotlight. Flashlight is an app that supercharges OS X's builtin search. Check the weather, search the web, send an iMessage, find an emoji — all by typing in the search box. With more than 70 plugins, you can do anything on your Mac in just a few keystrokes.

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The Best 41 Flashlight Alternatives

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Alfred

Alfred is a quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.

Freemium Mac OS X

Program Launcher File search
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Listary

Listary is an excellent enhancement utility for list controls used everywhere: Windows Explorer, Task Manager, Registry Editor, and innumerable third-party applications. It searches folders, files or anything else as-you-type.

Freemium Windows Windows Explorer

Portable Integrated Search Export to Excel Windows Explorer integration Windows Explorer extension
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Gnome Do

gnome do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items. gnome do is inspired by quicksilver & https://alternativein .

Free Open Source Linux
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Wox

wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching. since the local search is powered by everything you will start receiving results as you type.

Free Open Source Windows

Program Launcher File search
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Find And Run Robot

FARR also lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more.

Freemium Windows

Customizable Portable Program Launcher Plugin API
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Synapse

Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.

Free Open Source Linux
89 Like

RecentX

RecentX is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders, programs, websites & clipboard history. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.

Commercial Windows

Portable Tag based Tabbed interface Drag n drop Image Preview Clipboard monitoring Program Launcher File search Local Search Windows Explorer integration File tagging Indexed search Bookmark History Browser History Duplicate Files Finder Folder Search Folder Tagging
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Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.

Free Open Source Linux
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LaunchBar

LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it’s only a few keystrokes away.

Freemium Mac OS X
20 Like

CerebroApp

Cerebro is an open source and free electron-based productivity software alternative to Alfred and Spotlight. It is focused on speed and good UI and UX.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Electron based
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Quick Search Box

Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
9 Like

Phlo

Phlo is the quickest way to search your favorite websites. Phlo can be summoned with a global hotkey and in a few keystrokes it lets you jump right to the search results of anything that you need to lookup on any site.

Freemium Mac OS X iPhone iPad
8 Like

Hain

hain is an alt + space launcher for windows that looks and works similar to alfred. features searching executable files us very fast with fuzzy matching plugins in pure javascript

Free Open Source Windows

Electron based Program Launcher File search
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Dunno

Dunno is a crowd-searching platform. Find bundles with results others have found useful. It's everything related to your search, selected by people who understand what you're looking for.

Free Mac OS X iPhone iPad Web
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Scherlokk

Scherlokk is a lightning fast file search utility build for precise and reliable search of every file which meets the search criteria. Music, pictures, bookmarks, documents, etc can be found quickly and easily.

Commercial Mac OS X
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Mutate

mutate is a simple launcher inspired by alfred for ubuntu. be more productive with hotkeys, keywords and file actions at your fingertips.

Free Open Source Linux
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Spotlight

Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger).

Free Mac OS X

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Program Launcher File search File preview Indexed search
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Krunner

Krunner is a multi-function command line menu for the KDE Plasma Desktop. At times, it almost seems as you could manage all your computing from Krunner.

Free Open Source Linux

Program Launcher File search Easy to add / edit categories
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Yal

Access your files, programs, browser bookmarks, search engines and windows with a few key presses.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Program Launcher File search
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Brow

Brow adds your Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox bookmarks to the OS X Spotlight Service.

Free Mac OS X

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The Best 41 Flashlight Alternatives

Alfred

Listary

Gnome Do

Wox

Find And Run Robot

Synapse

RecentX

Avant Window Navigator

LaunchBar

CerebroApp

Quick Search Box

Phlo

Hain

Dunno

Scherlokk

Mutate

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Krunner

Yal

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