Keypirinha
A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.
- Free • Proprietary
- Application Launcher
- File Search Utility
- Web Search Engine
- Windows
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
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Keypirinha information
Supported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Web Search Engine
- launchers
- portable-launcher
- keystroke-launcher
- search-tool
- start-menu
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abogawat thinks ueli is an alternative to KeypirinhaUeli is one of the best command launchers on Windows at the moment, especially since it is one of the very few being actively developed.
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Fast, no frills "Alfred" style launcher for Windows. Definitely recommended!
Opens fast, loads suggestions fast, responses to clicks are fast. This pirinha accelerated my whole day. Despite from that it looks nice and clean, is well documented, maintained and in a stable state. The configuration thing is confusing at first but I like the concept and got used to it.
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?
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This is for Windows only, but there's Cerebro, Flow Launcher (my fav; both cross-platform) and you can check more in this website.
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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 :)
"Out-of-the-box", it seems to find bookmarks quickly, though there's browser vs bookmark icons, so it's somehow not as comfy as my extension. As far as finding files, it seems at first you need to type the path.. Not as efficient as Everything Search. It seems that there is a learning curve for you and the program with many plug-ins available, and I'm not sure I want to invest in that. Really, it would be nice to have a button or reminder of how to access the options shown in results (press Tab)
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.