Quicksilver Alternatives

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 100 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, Alfred and Listary.

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  1. Fly-Pie icon
     1 like

    :pie: Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension. - GitHub - Schneegans/Fly-Pie: Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. XMenu icon
     4 likes

    XMenu adds one or more global menus to the right side of the menu bar. They give you access to your preferred applications, folders, documents, files, and snippets. Launch any application, or insert text snippets or URLs into your email messages or Pages documents with a single...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3.  Like

    Launcher/menu program for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Salmon icon
     3 likes

    Salmon - Spotlight for Finder. Powerful search tool for files and folders with support for multiple selection. Powerful @modifiers to filter and sort.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. GoToFile icon
     2 likes

    GoToFile is a fast, flexible and accurate utility to find files and folders on your Mac.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  6. File Find icon
     1 like

    A macOS file search utility that helps you find files easier.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Apptivate icon
     4 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Brow icon
     1 like

    Free all-in-one Mac productivity app that replaces your launcher, clipboard manager, window manager, screenshot tool, and 20+ more utilities.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9.  2 likes

    This code provides the MenuStart plugin to nwg-panel. It also may be used standalone, however, with a little help from command line arguments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. Enso Launcher icon
     21 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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