bemenu Alternatives

bemenu is described as 'Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu' and is a application launcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 50 alternatives to bemenu for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, KDE Plasma and iPhone apps. The best bemenu alternative is Vicinae, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like bemenu are Raycast, Launchy, Alfred and Wox Launcher.

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  1. Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.

    260 Advanced Recent Access alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Flashlight icon
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    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.

    59 Flashlight alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  3. 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
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  4. Verve icon
     2 likes

    Verve is a lightweight and blazingly fast launcher for accessing and opening applications, files and documents. It serves as a replacement for popular tools such as Spotlight, Raycast, and Alfred, and is written in the Rust programming language using the Tauri Framework.

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    • Mac
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  5. The Application Finder is a program to find and launch installed applications on your system, and quickly execute commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  6. Speedy icon
     1 like

    The power to quickly launch everything you need for your everyday work, multiple text clipboard capability, workflows handling and keyboard shortcuts creation.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. Mini Run icon
     1 like

    A handy tool to start application by keyboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  8. This is a fork of Rofi with added support for Wayland via the layer shell protocol.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  9. Application launcher, developed with sway and Hyprland in mind, but should also work with other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    57 iBar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11.  Like

    Tiny dynamic menu for Wayland.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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