Alternatives to Zazu for all platforms with any license

Wox

Wox is a full-featured plugin-powered launcher that supports file and web searching. Since the local search is powered by Everything...

Free Open Source Windows
Program Launchers File Searching Integrated Search Add a feature

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Listary

Listary is a revolutionary search utility for Windows that makes finding your files and launching applications blazing fast, for casual and power users alike!.

Freemium $ $ $ Windows PortableApps.com Windows Explorer
Windows Explorer integration Export to Excel Integrated Search Portable ... Quick Switch Windows Explorer extension Add a feature

193 Like
Alfred

Alfred is a quicklaunch application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.

Freemium Mac
Program Launchers File Searching Workflow Automation Add a feature

229 Like
Keypirinha

A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable). Extensible with Python3 plugins.

Free Windows
Lightweight Program Launchers Calculus solving Configurable ... Customizable File Searching Portable Add a feature

111 Like
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...
- Discontinued Latest version, 0.3.2 was released on December 5, 2017, and requires editing the config,json file in order to work. See https://github.com/KELiON/cerebro/releases Previous release 0.3.1 works fine though if anyone's interested in using it
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Calculus solving Electron based Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Add a feature

34 Like
Find And Run Robot

FARR also lets you quickly run web searches, send email, manipulate files, control on-screen windows, and much more. Build and share custom commands or install plugins...

Freemium Windows
Program Launchers Customizable Plugin API Portable Add a feature

102 Like
Quicksilver

Quicksilver is a fast and free Mac OS X productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly. Quicksilver learns your habits...

Free Open Source Mac
Program Launchers Add a feature

114 Like
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

28 Like
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...
- Discontinued The program seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 0.95.3, released on November 2014, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.
Free Open Source Linux
Program Launchers Add a feature

175 Like
Hain

Hain is an ALT + SPACE launcher for Windows that looks and works similar to Alfred.

Free Open Source Windows
Program Launchers Electron based File Searching Add a feature

12 Like
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

12 Like
Lacona

Lacona is a docker app for Mac OSX that accepts natural language commands. Call up Lacona with a keyboard shortcut and type whatever you want to do. It gives intelligent...

Freemium Mac GitHub
Program Launchers Add a feature

14 Like
ueli

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...

Free Open Source Mac Windows
Program Launchers File Searching Portable Add a feature

6 Like
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

5 Like
Spotlight

Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on...

Free Mac
Program Launchers Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File preview File Searching ... Indexed search Add a feature

7 Like