Alternatives to Synapse for Linux with any license

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...

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Calculus solving Electron based Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature

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Albert

Omnilauncher for Linux to help you quickly find and run apps and do other useful things.

Free Open Source Linux
Program Launchers Customizable Lightweight QT Based Add a feature

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kupfer

Kupfer is a command tool heavily inspired by Quicksilver ; you do not use it to search your files, you use it to summon an...

Free Open Source Linux
Program Launchers Configurable Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Support for Keyboard Shortcuts Add a feature

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- Kupfer, though its development is stalled, is still very usable under current Ubuntu versions. Guest • Aug 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Realy fast, doesn't crash like Synapse on xubuntu 16.04.5. Guest • Feb 2018
Gnome Do

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...

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- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 0.95.3, released on November 2014, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.
- Synapse, Kupfer, and Gnome Do are the three leaders in this category. Guest • Aug 2015 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Ulauncher

Fast application launcher for Linux. Custom shortcuts for web URLs and scripts. Extensions are coming soon.

Free Open Source Linux
File Searching Integrated Search Legacy addons support Add a feature

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Freeter

Smartest way to work on your computer. Freeter is a productivity app that allows you to gather everything you need to work in one place and access them quickly and...

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Program Launchers Workflow Automation Add a feature

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dmenu

dmenu is a dynamic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages large numbers of user-defined menu items efficiently.

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Gnome-Pie

Gnome-Pie is a circular application launcher for Linux. It is made of several pies, each consisting of multiple slices. The user presses a key stroke which opens the...

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Krunner

Krunner is a multi-function command line menu for the KDE Plasma Desktop. At times, it almost seems as you could manage all your computing from Krunner. Among other...

Free Open Source Linux
Program Launchers File Searching Add a feature

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Mutate

Mutate is a simple launcher inspired by Alfred for Ubuntu. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords and file actions at your fingertips.

Free Open Source Linux
File Searching Add a feature

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- Discontinued The last commit to the GitHub repo was on November 5th, 2015.
Slingscold

Slingscold is a lightweight application launcher similar to Launchpad in Mac OS X.

Free Open Source Linux
macOS-like Add a feature

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Gnome Completion-Run Utility

Application launcher with bash-like completion. It's a simple program which provides a "run program" window, featuring a bash-like TAB completion. It...

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Slingshot launcher

Slingshot is the lightweight and stylish app launcher designed for elementary OS .

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GNOME Launch Box

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...

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- Discontinued This app seems to be totaly discontinuited. The official page on Gnome project points to an inexistant git repo. In Debian archives, last known version is 0.2-1.1: https://archive.debian.net/fr/source/lenny/gnome-launch-box Activity at FTP link dates back to 2009: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-launch-box/
Bashrun2

Launcher that uses a terminal with a modified bash session. Bashrun2 is the second generation version of bashrun, an application launcher running a modified bash...

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