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

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

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Program Launcher File search

The Best 20 Wox Alternatives

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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.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

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

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
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
78 Like

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
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
12 Like

Lacona

Lacona is a docker app for Mac OSX that accepts natural language commands. Call up Lacona with a keyboard shortcut and type whatever you want to do. It gives intelligent suggestions as you type and then follows your orders.

Freemium Mac OS X GitHub
11 Like

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
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
7 Like

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...

Free Open Source Mac OS X
5 Like

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
5 Like

Ulauncher

Fast application launcher for Linux. Custom shortcuts for web URLs and scripts. Extensions are coming soon.

Free Open Source Linux
4 Like

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
4 Like

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
4 Like

Agui

Agui is a light and extensible launcher for Windows.

Free Windows

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable File search
4 Like

Clipboard Master

Clipboard Master is a handy utility designed to keep all previous texts, pictures and files copied to the clipboard in a list, for later use. Organize your text modules...

Free Windows
2 Like

Fingertips

Fingertips indexes the Windows start menu so you can launch items with a keyboard shortcut. Also custom shortcuts, shortcuts for Outlook and auto-typing text are...

Free Windows

Program Launcher Outlook integration
1 Like

Mini Run

A handy tool to start application by keyboard.

Free Windows
1 Like

Steward

a command launcher with extension management/app launcher/tab management/history search/alfred

Free Open Source Chrome OS Chrome

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The Best 20 Wox Alternatives

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Listary

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Lacona

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Hain

Flashlight

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