Skylight

Skylight is an experimental keyboard launcher. It lets you quickly find and open anything on your computer or the web. Start apps, documents or search websites with a...

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Windows

Skylight is an experimental keyboard launcher. It lets you quickly find and open anything on your computer or the web. Start apps, documents or search websites with a few keystrokes, it even learns from your habits.

After some use Skylight can become an extension of your hand. You'll find yourself doing without thinking, as apps or websites will launch in pure reflex.

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The Best 38 Skylight Alternatives

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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

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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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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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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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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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PStart

PStart is a simple tray tool to start user defined applications. Designed to run portable applications, you can start anything runnable from USB key devices or removable disks.

Free Windows

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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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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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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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SlickRun

SlickRun is a free floating command line utility for Windows. SlickRun gives almost instant access to any program or website. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases (known as MagicWords), so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.

Free Windows
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Portable Start Menu

Portable Start Menu is a simple and free start menu application that can be installed on USB sticks or local PCs. Organize your programs in a simple menu system and launch them via a tray icon.

Free Windows
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FSL Launcher

Tired of dozens of icons on your desktop? Try this simple, yet powerful & intuitive launcher to organize your shortcuts. Some features: Shortcuts management...

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Freeter

Smartest way to work on your computer. Freeter is a productivity app that allows you to gather everything you need to work in one place and access them quickly and easily.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

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FCorp My Quick Launch

Faster access to your favorite files, folders, programs, etc.

Commercial Windows

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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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Fling

Fling is a simple, flexible, safe and powerful search tool you can download free (without any limitations or annoyances). If you search the web often for information or downloadable files you will enjoy Fling. Here is how it works.

Free Windows

Customizable Global hotkey

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The Best 38 Skylight Alternatives

Listary

Gnome Do

Find And Run Robot

Synapse

RecentX

Executor

Avant Window Navigator

PStart

kupfer

Enso Launcher

ASuite

SlickRun

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Freeter

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