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. Found icon
     4 likes

    Found provides a lightning-fast, intuitive search experience that finds files across your Mac and personal cloud services, including Dropbox, Google Drive/Docs, and Gmail (attachments).

    26 Found alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. Cliptonite icon
     1 like

    Cliptonite is a beautifully crafted, customizable, and performant clipboard manager for MacOS.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. iBar icon
     Like

    iBar is like Spotlight but for the web — jump to any page in your browser history in a couple of keystrokes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Slik icon
     2 likes

    Blazing fast, keyboard-driven, Apps and Web Apps launcher.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Flashlight icon
     8 likes

    Flashlight gives you control over Spotlight. There are tons of options for customization so you can do things how you want to. Flashlight is designed to make enhancing Spotlight easy and enhance it's usefulness on macOS 10.9 and up.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. Folder Peek icon
     4 likes

    Folder Peek lets you put one or more folders in the menu bar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. 8start Launcher is a combination of innovative Application Launcher, countdown and Tree Notes/Shortcuts/Favorites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. aLaunch icon
     2 likes

    aLaunch is an application launcher of the types to access from menubar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  9. Rocket is an application launcher for KDE Plasma. It sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE
     
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