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Wox

 190 likes

Wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Windows
3.6 / 5 Avg rating (9)
190 likes
11comments
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Features

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  1.  Application Launchers
  2.  File Search
  3.  Integrated Search

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  • alexcoere liked Wox
    17 days ago
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    POX added Wox as alternative to Leader Key
    19 days ago
  • r3v0000 liked Wox
    2 months ago
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    Maoholguin added Wox as alternative to QuickFind
    2 months ago
  • POX updated Wox
    3 months ago
  • Guest updated Wox
    3 months ago
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    Maoholguin added Wox as alternative to Walker
    6 months ago
  • forcemajore, jdakfkj333 and jerom_xehob liked Wox
    9 months ago
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Wox information

  • Developed by

    qianlifeng
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.6
  • Alternatives

    49 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

File ManagementOffice & ProductivityOS & UtilitiesOnline Services

GitHub repository

  •  24,954 Stars
  •  2,368 Forks
  •  158 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jan 22, 2025 
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Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Wox, and it has gotten 190 likes

Wox was added to AlternativeTo by qianlifeng on Jan 27, 2014 and this page was last updated Nov 11, 2024. Wox is sometimes referred to as WinAlfred.

Comments and Reviews

   
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10basetom
  
Top positive commentSep 28, 2017

Sure, it finds everything super fast and is very extensible, but keep in mind that the Wox app consumes 70-80 MB of memory and requires the Everything app to also be running, which consumes another 70-80 MB. If you are limited on resources, then there are other command-line launchers out there that consume a lot less memory.

1 reply
TBayAreaPat

I'm surprised, but apparently you are right about it relying on the Everything app

Reply written Dec 2, 2022

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Blaeki Rodskjegg
  
Top negative commentDec 22, 2021

I downloaded like ten launchers and tested 'em all out, and I ended up surprised by Wox's popularity on alternativeto.net. The app would repeatedly crash and throw errors when trying to use any plugin. Gave it a miss in favour of more stable apps.

2 replies
deepbind7977

Which ones? "The more Stable Apps"? I have been using Launchy and looking at Wox now. What options you using?

Reply written Jun 10, 2022

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TBayAreaPat

to deepbind.. when the chips are down, there's also the old Win F3 hotkey method... I don't like it any better than you, but..

Reply written Dec 2, 2022

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TBayAreaPat
  
Negative commentSep 13, 2022
• Edited Dec 2, 2022

I'm not sure that there's any benefit to using this over using the Win F3 hotkey.. at least with Win F3, you don't have to type out things like doc, to look up documents, or wonder if you got other abbreviations right, because there's tabs with Windows that spell things out. I'm thinking it might have value as a cross-browser bookmark finder (with a plug-in), but I'd sooner go with StorUrl.

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J G
  
ReviewMar 3, 2020

Wox is almost abandon ware. It works pretty well, but there are a few irritating bugs that have gone un-addressed for a long time. There are no recent releases and very little activity on the github project.

1 reply
zeroarst

Sadly no longer activly maintain.

Reply written Feb 25, 2023

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hced
CommentOct 30, 2019

Does someone know if it's possible to have Wox show search results based on recency? I.e. most frequently/recently chosen results shows up first. I'd like Wox to LEARN from the choices I pick from its results list (like how Launchbar for macOS does it). Right now, it's pretty unintelligent in that regard.

I'd also like to be able to use abbreviations for common items (again, like Launchbar on Mac). I presume this isn't possible in Wox, correct?

[Edited by hced, October 30]

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slothernik
  
Positive commentSep 12, 2018

It's a suitable Alfred replacement that works around Windows' terrible search functionality.

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Chuck

Great Comment! — Yes! – Windows’ Native Search is Astoundingly BAD {to phrase it Mildly} to be released by an OS-Creator! IF M$ had ANY sense, they should be SOOO embarrassed that a KEY aspect of their OS is GARBAGE!! The ONE reason that I allow Windows to Continue to Index my files is because I like OneNote ... & OneNote is Dependent on Windows’ Search-Indexing.

Reply written Jul 14, 2020

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birojuf
  
ReviewApr 16, 2018

It works more or less, but overall this software is a menace. I've had a better experience with Keypirinha and Agui – the first is a powerhouse, and the latter is ultra stable.

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What is Wox?

Wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching. Since the local search is powered by Everything icon Everything you will start receiving results as you type.

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