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.

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.
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.

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

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



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

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.



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



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.


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




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...

A simple, beautiful hotkey manager. Launch applications, execute scripts, run automator workflows and open files or folders. All of this at the press of a key combination. Apptivate 2.0 introduces hotkey sequences, which are simply a sequence of key combinations.




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