Wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching.




Comments about Wox Launcher as an Alternative to Launchy


- Wox Launcher is Free and Open Source
There are many alternatives to Launchy for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Wox Launcher, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Launchy and many of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Launchy are Ulauncher, Cerebro, Albert and Gnome Do.
Wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching.









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. In most cases you don't even need to open another application, because you can see results right in Cerebro, like google...




Albert is a C++/Qt based desktop agnostic keyboard launcher that helps you to accomplish your workflows in a breeze. Its goals are usability and beauty, performance and extensibility.




GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items.



switching from windows to linux, GnomeDo makes very well the job!


Rofi started as clone of simpleswitcher, written by Sean Pringle a popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher. Simpleswitcher laid the foundations and therefor Sean Pringle deserves most of the credit for this tool.

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

Zazu is a new open source productivity app, that allows developers to be in the drivers seat. Unlike other solutions, there is no built-in integrations, so every plugin has the full scope of what Zazu has to offer.




A replacement for i3-dmenu-desktop
Its purpose is to find .desktop files and offer you a menu to start an application using dmenu.
Slingscold is a lightweight app launcher for GNU/Linux, written in Vala and utilizing GTK+ and Cairo.





Launch Box is generally an application launcher. It's very influenced by Quicksilver for Mac OSX. Remember that this is only a first release so don't get your hopes up too much. Launch Box is written for the GNOME 2.10 platform and depends on GTK+ 2.

Perfect Drop in replacement to launchy and the developer is quite active in maintaining