



Quicksilver is described as 'Fast and free macOS productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly' and is a very popular application launcher in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Quicksilver for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, KDE Plasma and File Explorer apps. The best Quicksilver alternative is Flow Launcher, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Quicksilver are Vicinae, Raycast, Listary and Alfred.




A simple, beautiful hotkey manager. Launch applications, execute scripts, run automator workflows and open files or folders. All of this at the press of a key combination. Apptivate 2.0 introduces hotkey sequences, which are simply a sequence of key combinations.




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





Enso is dead simple to use. You just hold down the Caps Lock key and type an Enso command, which is displayed in a translucent overlay. Once the command is typed, you simply release the Caps Lock key to activate it, and the overlay disappears.


iBar is like Spotlight but for the web — jump to any page in your browser history in a couple of keystrokes.


Rocket is an application launcher for KDE Plasma. It sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.




File/Folder Launcher (FFLauncher) is a simple, very easy to use application specially designed to help you launch files and folders.


8start Launcher is a combination of innovative Application Launcher, countdown and Tree Notes/Shortcuts/Favorites.

Overflow is an application designed to quickly launch applications, open documents, or access folders while reducing the number of items needed in your Dock. Anything you want can be added to the Overflow interface, making it accessible through a few simple mouse clicks or...
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.
