Flow.Launcher
:mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins (by Flow-Launcher)
pinpoint
Keystroke launcher and personal command central. Alternative to Spotlight and Alfred for Windows. Alternative to Wox, PowerToys. (by dkgv)
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| Flow.Launcher | pinpoint | |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | 6 | |
| 6,204 | 145 | |
| 5.3% | - | |
| 9.5 | 7.7 | |
| 4 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| C# | C# | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Flow.Launcher
Posts with mentions or reviews of Flow.Launcher.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-16.
- Quick file search and app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
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Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
Flow Launcher is a very good alternative that i use everyday:
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Win-Vind: Vim powers with speed of thought in Windows 11
Looks like there’s an Everything plugin https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher#everything-pl...
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Does Windows have an indexing and search system like Spotlight on Mac?
Use Flow Launcher with Everything if you want a Spotlight-like experience on Windows. Search results are instant.
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Windows button with AHK
I've been using the script provided on this github (https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/discussions/747) to open flow launcher with windows button, but this script doesnt take into account win + D, win + arrow keys, etc. How can this script be edited so that if just the windows key is pressed, the !{Space} will be sent, but if not, run whatever the user pressed?
- Using FlowLauncher with Everything 1.5
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Somehow AutoHotKey is kinda good now
https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher
The Fluent Search creator is pretty active and available on Discord.
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1.14.1 Latest release
Fix Windows 11 22H2 (22621) notification error Fix Windows 11 notification error #2073
- How to open Folder result in the current File Explorer window ? (and not in new File Explorer window)
- How can you start a Flow Launch search only in the folder/subfolders of the folder you are in File Explorer ?
pinpoint
Posts with mentions or reviews of pinpoint.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.
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Show HN: SlickGPT
Agreed! I've found that staying in my workflow leads to fewer inadvertent context switches (like ChatGPT in-browser -> HN -> ... -> rabbit hole). MacGPT looks great. I created a similar plugin for my Windows keystroke launcher for the same reason. If anyone's interested, you can check it out here: https://github.com/dkgv/pinpoint
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Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS
I shared the exact same sentiment when I transitioned to Windows after a long period of only using macOS. I eventually began building a launcher myself using C# and over time it has become my daily driver. Feel free to check it out at https://github.com/dkgv/pinpoint, PRs welcome :-)
A few other nice candidates I found include:
- Keypirinha: https://keypirinha.com/
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What's a program you made that you actually use regularly?
Don't have a video unfortunately, but you can download it from here: https://github.com/dkgv/pinpoint/releases (pick the stand-alone release unless you have .NET 5 installed already)
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My friend and I made an open source, extensible keystroke launcher for Windows
As the title states we made a keystroke launcher for Windows, sort of an Alfred alternative. It is definitely still a work in progress, but we do have quite a few features at this point such as controlling Spotify, searching the web via DuckDuckGo bangs and a lot more. A full list of features and a download link is available at our repo at https://github.com/dkgv/pinpoint. If you're interested in trying it out or even contributing, please check it out :)
- Built an open-source keystroke launcher for Windows (similar to Spotlight and Alfred for macOS) with a friend
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Flow.Launcher and pinpoint you can also consider the following projects:
Wox - A cross-platform launcher that simply works
LinkedIn-Learning-Captions
ueli - Keystroke launcher for Windows, macOS and Linux
Tunerly - A minimalistic, multi-language pitch tuning app
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
plugins - Plugins for Flutter maintained by the Flutter team
command_help - :information_source: Extract help text from builtin commands and man pages
cerebro - 🔵 Cerebro is an open-source launcher to improve your productivity and efficiency
Arduino-Wake-Up-Light - An alarm clock which turns on the lights very slowly. It also uses a buzzer to produce gentle "tick" sounds after certain time.
EverythingToolbar - Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. [Moved to: https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar]
preview-mark - Just a side project to write, render, preview and share Markdown🗒
Flow.Launcher vs Wox
pinpoint vs LinkedIn-Learning-Captions
Flow.Launcher vs ueli
pinpoint vs Tunerly
Flow.Launcher vs PowerToys
pinpoint vs AutoHotkey
Flow.Launcher vs plugins
pinpoint vs command_help
Flow.Launcher vs cerebro
pinpoint vs Arduino-Wake-Up-Light
Flow.Launcher vs EverythingToolbar
pinpoint vs preview-mark