Flow Launcher
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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.
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Lightweight
- Support for Themes
- Privacy focused
Features
- Application Launchers
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- File Search
- Indexed search
- Portable
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Built-in viewer
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What is Flow Launcher?
Launch apps with greater control, search files effortlessly and extend features with community plugins. Fast and fluid productivity tool of choice that helps your workflow. - Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher
Flow Launcher information
Developed by
Flow Launcher TeamLicensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.7Alternatives
45 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Categories
File Management, OS & UtilitiesGitHub repository
- 13,321 Stars
- 534 Forks
- 262 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
This is my new go-to after using Keypirinha as an alternative to Alfred. The interface for Flow Launcher can be themed and comes with a curmudgeon of plugins to activate. It's buttery smooth, looks pleasant and much easier to configure than Keypirinha (you have to play with the INI files).
My wishlist for improvement:
Flow Launcher is by far the best launcher to Windows and offers the Alfred experience that Mac users have had on mac for years. Admittedly, it takes more effort to setup how you like the first time and if you use Everything indexing as well it takes a little extra effort but compared to other solutions this is still the most streamlined and runs very well. The only criticism is for non technical people it might be difficult to work with the settings menus. Also its open source which is huge. Edit 3 months later: We have a problem...it got updated and destroyed itself so I dont like that stability is such a vulnerability. Also even before that point I had some issues with issuing system commands such as sleep and shutdown and stuff it was freezing and not working.
As much as I'd like to switch over to Flow Launcher, the one thing still making me stick to Listary is its File Explorer and Total Commander integration.
Being able to type in the desired file or folder location when downloading or opening a file or jumping to a certain folder in Total Commander is convinience one does not want to give up, and sadly Flow Launcer (as far as I've seen) does not have it, even with the Explorer plugin.
various useful plugins . easy to setup.
Flow Launcher is effective and attractive. Numbers of people contribute to its list of interesting and up-to-date plugins. The BookMark Finder plug-in is the best I've seen around in launchers. Flow Launcher does a good job of hopping to the file location in Explorer, and will let you add other drives in the file search. Uniquely, FlowLauncher will put thumbnails next to image files.. a smidge too small for my use, but there's an image preview feature if you press F1.
Best launcher on Windows, very customizable and a large extension collection. A great open source project.
Currently Flow Launcher is probably the best option when it comes to balance between making a launcher customizable on one end and easy to use on another. A very healthy plugin ecosystem and support for Everything file indexer is what makes it even better. Open source too.
EDIT (2026): Unfortunately, the stability of Flow Launcher has taken a really sharp turn for the worse lately. Frequent issues with updates, complaints about missing files (!?) etc.