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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...
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
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- POX added ueli as alternative to Quick App Launcher
- POX added ueli as alternative to Leader Key
- POX added ueli as alternative to Rocket Launcher
- forcemajore liked ueli
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File Management, Office & Productivity, OS & Utilities, Online ServicesGitHub repository
- 3,924 Stars
- 252 Forks
- 62 Open Issues
- Updated Apr 15, 2025
Comments and Reviews
As of this exact date, 2020-08-31, this is my current favorite launcher. Past history of favorites in chronological order: LaunchBar (when using macOS), Keypirinha (when starting using Windows), Wox, then Listary. Reason for switching over from Listary (which I liked a lot) is because of its current stale development. Also, who doesn't love free and open-source. Something that I was wary about when it comes to ueli was the use of Electron, but that doesn't seem to affect things badly.
Plus points for ueli that I love:
[Edited by hced, August 31]
It is a usable launcher that is faithful to the basics. Unfortunately, it does not support plugins. Users' request for plug-in support has been going on for three years. https://github.com/oliverschwendener/ueli/issues/96
Trying to start ueli on Mac Monterey gives an error "'ueli.app' cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified"
Too bad because it sounds like a great app.
I never got the hang of any of the other Spotlight alternatives. As my computer has both aged and become more complex, Spotlight struggles to do anything.
Having ueli for a narrow, more common range of tasks (launch apps, system preferences etc) and leaving Spotlight for times when I need to run some huge search has been an OK compromise.
Only problem with ueli is that sometimes it is indexing when you want to use it, in which case you have to wait til it's done. I just set indexing to occur pretty infrequently so I rarely encounter it anymore.
really, really fast but partially broken
What I believe to be the best free keystroke launcher for macOS. It's not as fully featured as Alfred (can create workflows, but not with the beautiful visuals), but it works well with quicker features than others such as quick web searching (i.e., !g BLANK when compared to Lacona's feature where you have to type in "search google BLANK)
Works great and it is free & open source, great alternative for Alfred on Mac OSX too.