Flashlight 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.
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Fluent Search Alternatives
Fluent Search is described as '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' and is a application launcher in the os & utilities category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Fluent Search for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Fluent Search alternative is Flow Launcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Fluent Search are Listary, Vicinae, Alfred and Raycast.
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25 hunt-n-peck alternativesSimple vimium/vimperator style navigation for Windows applications based on the UI Automation framework. In essence, it works the same as screen readers or accessibility programs but with the goal of making any Windows program faster to use.
58 Fenn alternativesFenn is a powerful, AI-driven desktop search engine for macOS that makes your files instantly searchable—including videos, audio, PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets, and images. Just type or upload an image to find exactly where any object, person, or concept appears.
Cost / License
- Pay once or Subscription
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
Cliptonite is a beautifully crafted, customizable, and performant clipboard manager for MacOS.
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Found provides a lightning-fast, intuitive search experience that finds files across your Mac and personal cloud services, including Dropbox, Google Drive/Docs, and Gmail (attachments).
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
Finda finds things — windows, browser tabs, code editor buffers, browser history, apps, files, etc. — in under 16 milliseconds.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Electron / Atom Shell
The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an eye. At that this point your options are limited however.
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Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
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