CerebroApp

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...

• Discontinued Latest version, 0.3.2 was released on December 5, 2017, and requires editing the config,json file in order to work. See https://github.com/KELiON/cerebro/releases Previous release 0.3.1 works fine though if anyone's interested in using it

• Customizable, nice collection of plugins, and cross platform. Some rough edges, but has advanced nicely onward. jtflynnz • Apr 2018 Disagree   Agree

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Synapse

Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the...

Free Open Source Linux

Albert

Omnilauncher for Linux to help you quickly find and run apps and do other useful things.

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Gnome Do

GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items. GNOME Do is inspired by...

• Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 0.95.3, released on November 2014, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.

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Freeter

Smartest way to work on your computer. Freeter is a productivity app that allows you to gather everything you need to work in one place and access them quickly and...

Freemium Mac Windows Linux

Ulauncher

Fast application launcher for Linux. Custom shortcuts for web URLs and scripts. Extensions are coming soon.

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Zazu

Zazu is a new open source productivity app, that allows developers to be in the drivers seat. Unlike other solutions, there is no built-in integrations, so every plugin...

• It's works on Windows, Mac and Linux, has a lot of plugins and is fully extensible. jenstrio • Mar 2017 Disagree   Agree

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Krunner

Krunner is a multi-function command line menu for the KDE Plasma Desktop. At times, it almost seems as you could manage all your computing from Krunner. Among other...

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Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of...

• its a text based launcher vs. a dock Guest • Feb 2016 Disagree   Agree

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Mutate

Mutate is a simple launcher inspired by Alfred for Ubuntu. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords and file actions at your fingertips.

• Discontinued The last commit to the GitHub repo was on November 5th, 2015.

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