Rofi Alternatives
Rofi is described as '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' and is a Application Launcher in the OS & Utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Rofi for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD and Windows Explorer. The best alternative is Keypirinha, which is free. Other great apps like Rofi are Listary (Freemium), Alfred (Freemium), Station (Free, Open Source) and Albert (Free, Open Source).
- Keypirinha is a fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows. Features: * Quickly find and launch plethora of items like applications, files, bookmarks, URLs, sessions (PuTTY, WinSCP, FileZilla), registry keys, ...
- Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows that makes finding your files and launching applications blazing fast, for casual and power users alike!.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Windows
- PortableApps.com
- Windows Explorer
- 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.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Lost in tabs? Stay organized with the smart dock. Station automatically groups your pages by application. Your workspace is cleaner than ever, finding what you need is easy. Context-switching is a pain?
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Brave
- Access everything with virtually zero effort. Run applications, open files or their paths, open bookmarks in your browser, search the web, calculate things and a lot more. See wiki for more information.
- * Ulauncher provides instant search results. It also remembers your previous choices and automatically selects the best option for you. * You can type in an application name without worrying about spelling. Ulauncher will figure out what you meant.
- Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger).
- GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items.
GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver & GNOME Launch Box .Discontinued
The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 0.95.3, released on November 2014, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.
- KRunner is the launcher built into the Plasma desktop.
- dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.