Alfred Alternatives

Alfred is described as 'Productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion. Search your Mac and the web, and control your Mac using custom actions with the Powerpack' and is a very popular application launcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Alfred for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Alfred alternative is Wox Launcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Alfred are Microsoft PowerToys, Listary, Keypirinha and Flow Launcher.

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Alfred alternatives are mainly Application Launchers, but if you're looking for File Search Utilities or Clipboard Managers you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows, Linux, Mac and Windows + Open Source. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Alfred.
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  1. Catapult allows you to easily launch apps, open files and do basic calculations with a keyboard-driven user interface. Custom plugins and themes can be loaded dynamically.

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    • Linux
     
  2. Mage, originally a Raycast clone, is a lightweight and fast app launcher for Windows, built with Electron, Vite, and Vue 3. It features custom applications, live activities, a modern UI and a batteries-included SDK for developers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
     
  3. ClipMenu icon
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    ClipMenu can manage clipboard history. You can record 8 clipboard types, from plain text to image.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Unleash.so icon
     4 likes

    Your productivity level just sprouted wings. Find what you need easily, across your cloud services from one place. Formerly known as ChaseApp.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    This code provides the MenuStart plugin to nwg-panel. It also may be used standalone, however, with a little help from command line arguments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Linux
     
  6. iCliper icon
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    iCliper is the ultimate tool for managing your clipboard. With iCliper, you can access and organize clipboard history across different apps. No more copying and pasting the same text repeatedly.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. This is a fork of Rofi with added support for Wayland via the layer shell protocol.

    32 Rofi for Wayland alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
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    Comments about Rofi for Wayland as an Alternative to Alfred
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    rofi just launches stuff, alfed does a lot more then that- sure you can configure rofi to do a lot too - but that's custom and not built-in, also rofi works on some wms and doesnt on others- sure, you cant compare macos to linux inconsistant xorg/wayland overlays but whats isnt whats this site is about actually? as close as possible - and rofi aint anywhere close

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    • Rofi for Wayland is Free and Open SourceAlfred is Freemium and Proprietary
  8. Hook icon
     3 likes

    Instantly access the information you need, without searching. Whether it’s in the Finder, email, on the web, in the cloud, a version-control system, almost anywhere. Link and retrieve it with Hook.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9.  2 likes

    Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu.

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    • Linux
     
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    Launcher/menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  11. Selectric icon
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    Private search for Outlook, Gmail, Drive, Slack and more. Spend less time hunting with search that actually works!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  12. XMenu icon
     5 likes

    XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and snippets. Launch any application, or insert text snippets or URLs into your email messages or Pages documents with a single...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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