Mac Alfred For Windows

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I loved Alfred on MacOS. 95% of the time I used it to launch apps with the keyboard, but I also liked its clipboard management, access to Google searches, etc. What about Windows? Turns out there’s lots of options. I cribbed these from this Reddit discussion, also see this article. Many of these are cross-platform and work on Mac and/or Linux.

Hain is pretty slick and what I just chose to switch to. It feels almost exactly like Alfred to me, the only thing it’s missing is number key shortcuts to pick items. It’s not very configurable (no skins for instance) but the defaults are good. I added some plugins: Clipboard (to replace Ditto), Google. The terrible / great thing about Hain is it’s implemented in Electron so there’s a full HTML5 shell running. Or several maybe. I see four hain.exe processes total about 200 MB of RAM. And 0.02% CPU which is small but not zero.

Zazu is newish and open source. It seems OK but not as polished as Hain; configuring it requires editing a JSON file, for instance. It’s also HTML5 based (Chrome?), 240MB in memory and 0.02% CPU.

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Wox is popular and pretty solid. The install is strange; it says it requires you also install both everything (a file indexer) and Python3. But I think those are both optional upgrades. It’s a little ugly out of the box, Hain is nicer. Wox is 125 MB of RAM and 0.12% of CPU. It’s built in .NET.

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Launchy is what I used to use. It’s old and ugly and doesn’t really do anything but launch apps. And that, not very well. Nothing to love but it does work and is free.

FARR is another option with a long history. I couldn’t figure out how to rebind the hotkey, and it’s kinda old and ugly too, but it seems very capable. Also quite small; 20 MB RAM and 0.00% CPU when idle, like it should be.

While I’m here, a shout-out to Seer which gives a space bar quick-preview to the Windows Explorer, like MacOS finder has. It’s about $12. Lightshot also seems like a nice improved screenshot-taker. It’s free, I think they’re trying to drive ad traffic to prntscr.com. (Speaking of which my Apple keyboard has no PrntScrn button. It does have an F13 though which you can bind in Lightshot, even if the UI shows a blank key when you bind it.)