Launchy

Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

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Linux

Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes.

Links to official Launchy sites

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Customizable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Skinnable Program Launcher File search Indexed search Relative Paths

The Best 125 Launchy Alternatives

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Gnome Do

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Free Open Source Linux
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Quicksilver

Quicksilver is a fast and free Mac OS X productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly. Quicksilver learns your habits, making your everyday chores simple and efficient.

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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

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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
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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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Keypirinha

A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.

Free Windows

Customizable Lightweight Program Launcher File search Calculus solving
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Executor

A multi purpose launcher and more advanced and customizable freeware windows run replacement and more. Executor is available also as a portable app and can be integrated in LiberKey.

Free Windows

Customizable Portable Program Launcher
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FastKeys

Text expander, start menu, shortcuts, auto complete, mouse gestures, macro recorder, clipboard manager and more.

Commercial Windows

Portable Create Macro Autocompletion Mouse gestures Support for Hotkeys
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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
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kupfer

kupfer is a command tool heavily inspired by quicksilver ; you do not use it to search your files, you use it to summon an application or document quickly by typing the first parts of its name.

Free Open Source Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Program Launcher Configurable
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SearchMyFiles

SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows.

Free Windows

Portable File search Local Search USB drives Non Indexing search
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Enso Launcher

Enso is dead simple to use. You just hold down the Caps Lock key and type an Enso command, which is displayed in a translucent overlay.

Free Windows
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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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ASuite

ASuite is a simple application launcher to manage an unlimited number of files, folders and webpage for quick access. It is designed to work with removable storage (uses relative paths) media like USB sticks, hard drives, iPods, etc.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Program Launcher USB drives
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SyMenu

SyMenu is .a portable menu launcher and a Start Menu replace to organize your applications quickly and easily. On top of that SyMenu is able to automatically index any application installed on the host pc. .

Free Windows
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Albert

Omnilauncher for Linux to help you quickly find and run apps and do other useful things.

Free Open Source Linux

Customizable Program Launcher
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Freeter

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Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

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X1 Search

X1's Lightning-Fast Search Software. Premium Alternative to Windows Desktop and Outlook Search.

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Launchy

Links to official Launchy sites

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The Best 125 Launchy Alternatives

Alfred

Gnome Do

Quicksilver

Wox

Find And Run Robot

Synapse

RecentX

Keypirinha

Executor

FastKeys

LaunchBar

kupfer

SearchMyFiles

Enso Launcher

CerebroApp

ASuite

SyMenu

Albert

Freeter

X1 Search

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