Keypirinha
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A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
EUAlerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
Discontinued
The latest version (2.26) was released in November 2020.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Customizable
- Configurable
- Support for Themes
Features
- Portable
- Launcher
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Application Launchers
- File Search
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Support for scripting
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Calculus solving
Tags
- launchers
- portable-launcher
- keystroke-launcher
- search-tool
- start-menu
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What is Keypirinha?
Keypirinha is a fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows.
Features:
- Quickly find and launch plethora of items like applications, files, bookmarks, URLs, sessions (PuTTY, WinSCP, FileZilla), registry keys, ...
- Launch a search on any configured website or online dictionary
- Language translations on-the-fly
- Evaluate mathematical expressions
- Convert numbers
- Base conversion of numbers
- Launch a copied URL directly (http, mailto, skype, ...)
- Split a URL and convert its arguments to JSON
- Switch to a running application by name
- Hash a string (CRC32, MD5, SHA, ...)
- Generate random UUIDs, passwords, bytes sequences
- Naturally associate a keyword to a specific item
- Machine-specific and/or user-specific configuration
- ...
Properties:
- Freeware, no nag screen, no time limit, no ads
- Customizable GUI (colors, fonts, toggling and positioning of elements)
- Lightning fast
- Fairly small memory footprint
- Battery friendly
- File-driven configuration
- Steep but rewarding learning curve
- Written in C++, exposes a Python3 API for its plugins
You can think of |project| as an alternative to Launchy and a cousin of Alfred
Keypirinha information
Developed by
Jean-Charles Lefebvre Licensing
Proprietary and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.5Alternatives
157 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Fast, no frills "Alfred" style launcher for Windows. Definitely recommended!
Hasn't been updated since 2020, also little to no activity from the original creator and its source code it's still closed.
I'd recommend to try other launchers and switch if you were using this one. There are other (better) open source alternatives.
And would you mind to tell us those better alternatives please?
This is for Windows only, but there's Cerebro, Flow Launcher (my fav; both cross-platform) and you can check more in this website.
Thanks for pointing out the lack of updates. I've not had any issues with Keypirinha just yet, but will check out your suggestion of Flow Launcher.
A brilliant launcher, but is it abandoned. This was my go to productivity tool, up until I tried Flow Launcher.
What I liked:
What I didn't like:
The latest version of Keypirinha is 2.26, released on 11/09/2021, but you are right.. Flow Launcher is the way to go.
Just one problem that I've loved in Launchy is memory feature. Wre you can search past inputs and even calculations. It is my must in every machine :)
Old. Annoying to configure and not very intuitive. I'm a Listary fan, but it doesn't find bookmarks. Keypirinha finds bookmarks quickly through a plug-in, https://keypirinha.com/packages/bookmarks.html, but use Flow.Launcher instead.. easier and configurable for multi browsers. There is too much learning curve for Keypirinha, but the program has many plug-ins available. It would be nice to have a button or reminder of how to access the options shown in results (press Tab). If you find a reason to prefer Keypirinha (maybe a special plug-in) over Flow.Launcher, let us know.
Super fast. Highly configurable. May take some time to get used to its vast amount of features. But once setup - a blast!
Doesn't crash when I do anything at all like Wox does.