Flashlight Alternatives

Flashlight is described as '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' and is a application launcher in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Flashlight for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and File Explorer apps. The best Flashlight alternative is Listary, which is free. Other great apps like Flashlight are Vicinae, Alfred, Keypirinha and Raycast.

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  1. XMenu icon
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    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...

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    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
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    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 open windows and behaves like a normal window list.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. LaunchBar icon
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    LaunchBar is a smart and powerful, keyboard driven productivity utility that lets you access and control every aspect of your digital life. Whatever you want to get done on your Mac – with LaunchBar it’s only a few keystrokes away.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. Scherlokk icon
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    Performs high-speed file searches using a proprietary engine across built-in, portable, and network drives, including hidden and non-indexed files, supports detailed result filtering, provides file comparison, hex editing, autosave, advanced sorting, and multitasking.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once or Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Spotter icon
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    Productivity tool that allows to launch everything (e.g. switch the next song, connect Bluetooth device, set a timer, etc.) so you can stay focused on your current task.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. LaunchMenu icon
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    LaunchMenu is a free, open source, cross-platform search-based productivity software with similarities to Alfred and Cerebro. LaunchMenu focuses on customisability and extensibility , while also being easy to use through it's one slick interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Dynamic menu library and client program inspired by dmenu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Folder Peek icon
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    Folder Peek lets you put one or more folders in the menu bar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Yal icon
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    Access your files, programs, browser bookmarks, search engines and windows with a few key presses.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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