Spotlight

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

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spotlight is the systemwide desktop search feature built into apple's os x operating system since version 10.4 (tiger). backed by an index of all items and files on the system, it's designed to allow the user to quickly locate a wide variety of items on the computer, including documents, pictures, music, applications, and system preferences. in addition, specific words in documents and in web pages in a web browser's history or bookmarks can be searched. it also allows the user to narrow down searches with file attributes (e.g. creation dates, modification dates, sizes, types) and, as of os x 10.9, tags. preinstalled plugins for the new oxford american dictionary and calculator applications also included in os x allow spotlight to define words and evaluate mathematical expressions.

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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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Zazu

Zazu is a new open source productivity app, that allows developers to be in the drivers seat. Unlike other solutions, there is no built-in integrations, so every plugin...

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Electron based
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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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Alternatives in Spotlight for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux. This list contains a total of 3 applications similar to Spotlight.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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