Launchy Alternatives
Launchy is described as 'free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager' and is one of the leading apps in the File Management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Launchy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Windows Explorer and iPad. The most liked alternative is Wox, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Launchy are Keypirinha (Free), Alfred (Freemium), Albert (Free, Open Source) and CerebroApp (Free, Open Source).
- Wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching.
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
Perfect Drop in replacement to launchy and the developer is quite active in maintaining - A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.
- Free
- Windows
It's fast and flexible. It has a SublimeText look'n'feel. Love it!A bit faster, more powerful to configuregreat! super fast and configurable! - Alfred is a productivity application for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion. Search your Mac and the web, and control your Mac using custom actions with the Powerpack.No screenshots yet
- Freemium
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Omnilauncher for Linux to help you quickly find and run apps and do other useful things.
- Cerebro is an open source and free electron-based productivity software alternative to Alfred and Spotlight. It is focused on speed and good UI and UX.
Discontinued
Latest release (0.3.2) was on December 2017.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Text expander, start menu, shortcuts, auto complete, mouse gestures, macro recorder, clipboard manager and more.
- Quicksilver is a fast and free Mac OS X productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly.
- FARR also lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more.
- Freemium
- Windows
Low memory footprint, decent speed, handy keyboard shortcuts, configurability. - Fast application launcher for Linux. Custom shortcuts for web URLs and scripts. Extensions supported.
- A multi purpose launcher and more advanced and customizable freeware windows run replacement and more. Executor is available also as a portable app and can be integrated in LiberKey.
- Free
- Windows
Executor is the most customizable launcher I've tested