



Listary is described as 'Revolutionary search utility for Windows that makes finding your files and launching applications blazing fast, for casual and power users alike!' and is a very popular File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Listary for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, File Explorer and Flathub apps. The best Listary alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like Listary are Microsoft PowerToys, Flow Launcher, Alfred and FSearch.




Mage, originally a Raycast clone, is a lightweight and fast app launcher for Windows, built with Electron, Vite, and Vue 3. It features custom applications, live activities, a modern UI and a batteries-included SDK for developers.




Provides search across local files, Outlook emails, network shares, and cloud drives, offers secure peer-to-peer sharing, secure real-time messaging, advanced search profiles, free access, multi-view results, query refinement, and quick keyboard shortcuts.




Blaze is an application launcher that distinguishes from amongst the others by being able to automate recurrent tasks performed in the file-system or even any application on Microsoft Windows.




Fast and easy program launching and task switching, using just two consecutive keys to launch and switch to up to 40 different programs and/or files.




Search inside Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio), Libre Office, Rich Text Format and text/ASCII files (TXT/CSV/MD/source codes etc.).

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.

Verve is a lightweight and blazingly fast launcher for accessing and opening applications, files and documents. It serves as a replacement for popular tools such as Spotlight, Raycast, and Alfred, and is written in the Rust programming language using the Tauri Framework.



Pipy is a free Windows utility designed to gradually improve one’s productivity during typical desktop tasks. It does so by combining a launcher and a desktop search tool within a single application.




gnome-search-tool is a utility for finding files on your system. To perform a basic search, you can type a filename or a partial filename, with or without wildcards. To refine your search, you can apply additional search options.

Application launcher, developed with sway and Hyprland in mind, but should also work with other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.
