Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- iPhone



Yal is described as 'Access your files, programs, browser bookmarks, search engines and windows with a few key presses' and is a application launcher in the file management category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Yal for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and File Explorer apps. The best Yal alternative is Listary, which is free. Other great apps like Yal are Alfred, Raycast, Keypirinha and Wox Launcher.



File/Folder Launcher (FFLauncher) is a simple, very easy to use application specially designed to help you launch files and folders.

Phlo is the quickest way to search your favorite websites.
Phlo can be summoned with a global hotkey and in a few keystrokes it lets you jump right to the search results of anything that you need to lookup on any site.
Key features:




Salmon - Spotlight for Finder. Powerful search tool for files and folders with support for multiple selection. Powerful @modifiers to filter and sort.




8start Launcher is a combination of innovative Application Launcher, countdown and Tree Notes/Shortcuts/Favorites.

Typhoeus Hotkeys is an application that runs in your taskbar at all times, you can create "Hotkeys" which you can use in seconds by using your keyboard. Each hotkey is linked to a file, program or website and when activated opens the required object instantly saving...



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 eye. At that this point your options are limited however.
DFind lets you perform advanced file and folder searches on your Mac. Need to find all files containing a certain text? Need to find files created in the last hour? Need to find large files that take up all your disk space?

The power to quickly launch everything you need for your everyday work, multiple text clipboard capability, workflows handling and keyboard shortcuts creation.




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


Rocket is an application launcher for KDE Plasma. It sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.



