Alternatives to Spotlight for Mac with any license

Alfred

Alfred is a quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.

Freemium Mac
Workflow Automation Program Launchers Program Launchers File Searching ... Launcher Add a feature

240 Like
CerebroApp

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...
- Discontinued Latest release (0.3.2) was on December 2017.
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Calculus solving Electron based Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Launcher ... Multiplatform Export Theme changing Add a feature

38 Like
Quicksilver

Quicksilver is a fast and free Mac OS X productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly. Quicksilver learns your habits...

Free Open Source Mac
Program Launchers File management Launcher Add a feature

116 Like
ueli

Developed with the Electron framework, ueli is the type of tool that adopts simplicity, leaving out any unnecessary options and configuration settings. It creates an...

Free Open Source Mac Windows
Program Launchers File Searching Launcher Portable Add a feature

15 Like
Zazu

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Electron based Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Launcher Add a feature

13 Like
Flashlight

The missing plugin system for Spotlight. Flashlight is an app that supercharges OS X's built-in search. Check the weather, search the web, send an iMessage, find an...
- Discontinued Latest release (1.0.1) was on May 2015.
Free Open Source Mac
Program Launchers Launcher Add a feature

8 Like
HoudahSpot

HoudahSpot is an advanced file search tool for Mac. Use HoudahSpot to locate hard-to-find files and keep frequently used files within reach. HoudahSpot builds upon...

Commercial Mac
File Searching Spotlight Add a feature

10 Like
Diamond

Diamond helps people get instant access to any of their files or emails using a keyboard hotkey. www.diamond.io .

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
File Searching Add a feature

3 Like
Scherlokk

Scherlokk is a lightning fast file search utility build for precise and reliable search of every file which meets the search criteria. Music, pictures, bookmarks...

Commercial Mac
File Searching Add a feature

5 Like
SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids

The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an...

Free Mac Spotlight
File Searching Spotlight Add a feature

1 Like
GoToFile

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

Freemium $ $ $ Mac
File Searching Add a feature

0 Like
TextSeek

TextSeek helps you search document contents for Windows and MacOS within seconds, inlcuding PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other formats. The core feature is that...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows
File Searching In-document search Add a feature

0 Like
Lightweight Launcher

A great tool for any power user: Launch any file, directory, application, and website with a single click. Lightweight Launcher provides customizable launch routines...

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Program Launchers Launcher Add a feature

0 Like
XMenu

Directly access all your apps, your home folder, documents, snippets, or just anything that can be put into a folder.

Free Mac
Program Launchers Sits in the MenuBar Add a feature

1 Like
Finda

Finda finds things — windows, browser tabs, code editor buffers, browser history, apps, files, etc. — in under 16 milliseconds.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Electron / Atom Shell
Program Launchers File Searching Indexed search Launcher Add a feature

0 Like