Free Application Launchers for Windows

Set of open-source tools enhancing Windows with features like FancyZones, PowerRename, and Keyboard Manager. Lightweight and ad-free.

PortableApps.com is a website offering many free, commonly used Windows applications that have been specially packaged for portability. These portable applications can be used from removable media such as USB flash drives.

Dedicated to make your workflow flow more seamlessly. Aimed at being more than an app launcher, it searches, integrates and expands on functionalities. Flow will continue to evolve, designed to be open and built with the community at heart.

Web-based customizable desktop environment for Windows 10/11 with tiling window management, widget personalization, theme adjustments, and taskbar layouts.

Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows that makes finding your files and launching applications blazing fast, for casual and power users alike!.

Station is the first open-source smart browser for busy people. A single place for all of your web applications.

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. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a...

Access tools with shortcuts, automate tasks with AI, and streamline productivity with Raycast's powerful Mac app. Enhance efficiency with snippets, quicklinks, and integrated commands.

A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.

Wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching.

RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.

Developed with the Electron framework, ueli is the type of tool that adopts simplicity, leaving out any unnecessary options and configuration settings. It creates an icon in the system tray at startup, where it sits silently throughout its runtime, without disturbing you with...

Fluent Search is a fast and easy-to-use search application that lets you search for running applications, browser tabs, bookmarks, files, and more. Unlike Windows Start Menu, Fluent Search focuses on continuing existing work, it let you jump easily between running application...

Portable applications launcher, LiberKey includes around 300 portable applications. In all areas : Audio, Video, Graphics, Internet, Games, Security, Education, System and more …

SyMenu is a portable menu launcher and a Start Menu replacer to organize your applications quickly and easily. But the real power of SyMenu unfolds when you approach its integrated large and daily growing suites of more than 1.500 freeware programs.

Instantly find files, apps, and web pages with a unified search interface. Access major engines like Google and Bing. Switch seamlessly between local and online content.

A multi purpose launcher and more advanced and customizable freeware windows run replacement and more. Executor is available also as a portable app and can be integrated in LiberKey.

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. In most cases you don't even need to open another application, because you can see results right in Cerebro, like google...

FARR also lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more. Build and share custom commands or install plugins to add tons of new features, like live search features for your clipboard history and your internet bookmarks;...

Kando offers an unconventional, fast, highly efficient, and fun way of interacting with your computer! You can use it to run commands, execute macros, open files, and much more.

Enhance Windows with a free, customizable dock for quick access to applications, featuring live reflections and dynamic animations.

SideSlide is an advanced, portable, unobtrusive, dockable, skinnable, instantly accessible, highly configurable Desktop Extension on Steroids! Clean desktop clutter and make your computer friendlier and faster than ever before.

MaxLauncher is a simple tabbed launcher that was designed to reduce the amount of time to find and run a program. It is capable of creating multiple data files, each of which can have a maximum of 10 tabs. Each tab and button is assigned a key(eg. F1-F10, 0-9, A-Z, etc.

Portapps is a collection of portable apps for Windows. You can download your favorite application as a portable setup or a 7z archive.

Pokki puts web-connected apps in your taskbar, so they're always only one click away. Welcome to the modern desktop.