Open-source launcher offering blazing speed, customisable interface, app launching, web search, built-in calculator, clipboard history, no native AI, and native macOS support, with Linux and Windows compatibility planned for future releases.
Fenn Alternatives
Fenn is described as 'Powerful, AI-driven desktop search engine for macOS that makes your files instantly searchable—including videos, audio, PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets, and images. Just type or upload an image to find exactly where any object, person, or concept appears' and is a application launcher in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Fenn for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and Google Chrome apps. The best Fenn alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Fenn are Vicinae, Flow Launcher, Alfred and Raycast.
Alternatives list
- 51 RustCast alternatives
Ever had a folder full of PDF files, where you knew, somewhere in there, is what you're looking for. But you did not know in which file. So you had to search each of them at a time…
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64 Albert alternativesAlbert is a C++/Qt based desktop agnostic keyboard launcher that helps you to accomplish your workflows in a breeze. Its goals are usability and beauty, performance and extensibility.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
- Mac
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This macOS tool leverages fighting game style key combinations to expedite app launches, execute commands, or even activate fun features like confetti, providing a faster alternative to launchers like Spotlight, Alfred, and Raycast. It supports customization and seamless integration with existing tools.
EverythingToolbar is integration for the Windows taskbar to use "Everything" which is an administrative tool that locates files and folders by filename instantly for Windows.
It's Lightweight & Simple
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
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300 Filezo alternativesFilezo (Formerly known as RecentX) is an innovative launcher that gives you instant access to your files, folders & programs. It automatically remembers your favorite & recent items so that you can launch them even faster.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
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Filezo is the most popular commercial alternative to Fenn.
- Filezo is Paid and Proprietary
Quicksilver is a fast and free macOS productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly.
Create customizable launch modes to group apps and websites on macOS, launch them instantly with shortcuts or menu bar access, open multiple browser tabs at once, streamline workflows for different contexts like work, design, or study, all in a minimal interface.
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69 Anytxt Desktop Search alternativesAnyTXT Searcher is a powerful local data full-text search engine, just like a local disk Google search engine. It is your ideal desktop search tool.
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35 Rofi alternativesRofi started as clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle a popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations and therefor Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Linux
91 Spotlight alternativesSpotlight is the system-wide 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...
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Integrated AI assistant combines task management, documentation, and communication, providing automated workflows, contextual search, content generation, task and document summaries, and secure in-platform knowledge retrieval using natural language commands.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Google Chrome
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