Synapse Alternatives for Linux

There are many alternatives to Synapse for Linux and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Linux alternative is Wox Launcher, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Synapse and 15 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Synapse are Ulauncher, ueli, Cerebro and Albert.

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  1. ueli icon
     73 likes

    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 icon in the system tray at startup, where it sits silently throughout its runtime, without disturbing you with...

    88 ueli alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Cerebro icon
     60 likes

    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 don't even need to open another application, because you can see results right in Cerebro, like google...

    68 Cerebro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Albert icon
     70 likes

    Albert is a C++/Qt based desktop agnostic keyboard launcher that helps you to accomplish your workflows in a breeze. Its goals are usability and beauty, performance and extensibility.

    68 Albert alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
     
  4. Gnome Do icon
     177 likes

    GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items.

    96 Gnome Do alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    Mutate is a simple launcher inspired by Alfred for Ubuntu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. The Application Finder is a program to find and launch installed applications on your system, and quickly execute commands.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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