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Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
- eviks 3y agoGood app, are there any others that have some workflows that are better?
- burrish 3y agoHere you can find a lot of alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/keypirinha/ https://alternativeto.net/software/keypirinha/ The only one on the list that I heard good things about is ueli, but I haven't tried it myself
- eviks 3y agoBut I don't need a lot of alternatives, just the better ones (for example, Ueli is that crazed example of using the whole browser for an app launcher)
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Ueli is that crazed example of using the whole browser for an app launcher You mean it uses electron?
- burrish 3y agoYep I think that's what he meant
- burrish 3y agoHey I am not going to spoonfeed you, why don't you go through them and compare them yourself?
- abrztam 3y agoFlow Launcher is a very good alternative that i use everyday: https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher
- trinsic2 3y agoExecutor is awesome because you can group applications into categories and search for the categories (great for people that forget names of programs), also its got really advanced launch options, but its pretty outdated. There is also PowerRun from PowerToys, looks pretty good.
- thunderbong 3y agoOh, didn't know about that and I've been using Executor for years! How do you go about doing that?
- trinsic2 3y agoI think their is a catagory field in the launch options of each program.
- saint11 3y agoI used this for years, but replaced it with Power toys. But now PowerToys is getting slow and not always getting what I want, maybe this is a sign that I should switch back.
- flacebo 3y agoI went like this: Launchy -> KeyPirinha -> PowerToys (got too slow) -> UELI It works really well for me, I've been using it for two years now. https://github.com/oliverschwendener/ueli https://github.com/oliverschwendener/ueli
- attentive 3y agoI checked UELI out. It looks nice. But call me old-fashioned, I don't need electron based launcher sitting there idle using 169Mb of RAM while doing nothing. Launchy is doing roughly the same in 5Mb of RAM.
- flacebo 3y agoI hear you, that's the #1 issue people have with ueli. Even though it's electron based, I feel like at least it's properly made performance wise. Bringing it up and the listing is both instant. I also really like that it does fuzzy search, and a ton of plugins by default (windows 10 settings, currency converter, etc).
- zekrioca 3y agoLoved the name!
- hashtag-til 3y agousername checks out ;)
- zekrioca 3y agolol exactly :)
- smusamashah 3y agoNot exactly a launcher but Everything by Voidtools is the fastest way to find anything on windows. You get search results while typing, it becomes an essential utility after using it once.
- proalph 3y agoI use Keypirinha's Everything plugin to access Everything within the launcher. The upside is that your queries are saved in history. You can scroll to that query in history and make the search again or edit that query.
- eviks 3y agohow do you find Windows language settings via Everything?
- Sybs 3y agoUse Wox https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox It launches any tool and if it doesn't understand, it starts searching all files using Everything
- maicro 3y agoHuge, longtime lover and advocate of Everything here - it's just so powerful to be able to find every file Everything knows about with .jpg in the name, sort by date, then if I really care start filtering by drive and folder ("C:/Users/[name]/Downloads"). Having folders sorted into a sane hierarchy is important, but being able to open Everything with Ctrl + Space (my preferred shortcut on a computer that I won't also be gaming on) and start typing is great and usually so much faster. Also works pretty well with mapped/mounted drives - sometimes there are issues, but I suspect most of those are Windows/network based, not Everything's fault.
- rantallion 3y agoI use Alfred on my Mac and would kill for something with the same feature set and performance. Is Keypirinha the Windows equivalent I should be using? Nothing else I've tried in the past came close.
- monroewalker 3y agoAlfred has a lot of features. What specifically do you use that you miss not having on Windows? Personally the clipboard history and universal actions are far and away the things I'd be most pained to lose. Curious what the biggest features are for other people though
- proalph 3y agoKeypirinha supports plugins. One of the plugins is Ditto which uses Ditto for Windows to access clipboard history.
- jen729w 3y agoHaving an application switcher vs. launcher. Launching Outlook once is great*, if it’s not already open. Launching Outlook again, if it’s already open, is absurd. But that’s the behaviour of every single Windows ‘launcher’ that I ever used. Compare to Alfred**: if it isn’t open, it launches it. If it is, it switches to it. (*Inasmuch as launching Outlook can be considered ‘great’.) (**Or any other Mac ‘launcher’, all of which are actually ‘switchers’.)
- abhinavk 3y agoPowertoys Run (https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys) can do this. There are not that many plugins as Alfred but Window Switcher is built-in.
- eviks 3y agoPowertoys Run does it worse, it adds a new line from a plugin, so now you have two lines for the same app, and Alfread/Keypirinha at least have shortcuts to launch eg, line number 2 which powertoys doesn't have, so you have to scroll to pick whether you want a new instance or switch to an existing one
- Sybs 3y agoI find Wox (which also uses Everything) a really great quick launcher, it saves a lot of time. https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox
- nickjj 3y agoI used Keypirinha since about 2016 then power toys's launcher but for the last year or 2 I don't use anything and depend on Win+S search on Windows 10 plus AutoHotKey. In the past I didn't like how Windows search loads so far in the bottom left or near your start button but it does a decent job at returning results quickly and it also lets you search for Windows settings as well as apps. That's something Keypirinha came up a bit short on. For my most used apps I have them bound to direct hotkeys with AutoHotKey. For example I hit Win+w to launch a web browser or Win+t to launch a terminal or Win+SHIFT+T to launch a terminal as an admin. I have a bunch of these hotkeys.
- hospitalJail 3y agoWindows is not the future. Sure there will always be someone supporting windows, but its a dead end for daily drivers.
- animex 3y agoBeen using https://www.launchy.net/ https://www.launchy.net/ for years. Will have to see how it compares.