Software Alternatives & Reviews

Looking For Spotlight for Windows 10? Here Are Five Alternatives

Spotlight Wox Keypirinha
  1. With Spotlight, you can find apps, documents, and other files on your Mac. And with Spotlight Suggestions, you can also get news, sports, movies, weather, and more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    However, Spotlight comes inbuilt with MacOS and I do really miss it on my Windows laptop. But, the problem is Windows works with NTFS and indexing on Apple File System (APFS) is far better. So it’s not possible to get a perfect replacement for Spotlight. But that doesn’t stop me and in the scout to get Spotlight for Windows 10, I found out some solid alternatives apps.

    #Productivity #App Launcher #Mac 5 social mentions

  2. 2

    Wox

    An effective launcher for windows. A full-featured launcher, access programs and web contents as you type. Be more productive ever since. Wox is free for use and open-sourced at Github, Try it now! Download .
    The app is heavily customizable and lets you customize it inside out. The settings let you customize the theme, hotkeys, plugins, no of search results etc. Customizing the theme means changing the appearance of the Wox search bar. You can also set your own hotkeys to trigger the app. The highlight of the app is the huge amount of plugin support that it backs (YouTube Query, Clipboard History, Google Translate etc). Initially, you get a set of plugins with the app which you can willingly choose to disable. On top of that, the website has tons of plugins such as YouTube Search, Wox. Spotify etc for you to install.

    #Windows Tools #App Launcher #Text Expander

  3. 3
    SE

    Search Everything

    This product hasn't been added to SaaSHub yet
    The outlook of Cerebro Pro is similar to Spotlight search and it even replicates the functionality. The search results are displayed below the search bar and the layout is exactly like the Spotlight Search. The highlight of the app is it even shows up results from the web. This is an added bonus as you don’t need to open the browser window to type the search string.

  4. A lightning fast and flexible keystroke launcher for Windows. No installation required (portable).
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    The problem with KeyPirinha which bugs me the most is that you cannot select the search results with your mouse. To enable this, you have to make tons of changes in the configuration file. The app almost recognizes Windows shortcuts except for the ones in Control Panel.

    #App Launcher #Mac #Windows Tools 31 social mentions

  5. Launchy is a cross platform app launcher that also launches documents, folders and web browser bookmarks.
    Launchy comes with a set of plugins installed but unlike Wox you don’t get huge plugin support. It also supports file search but you have to specify the directories it has to look for the file. This can be done through the settings menu under the Catalog tab. You need to be careful while adding directories under the Catalog because entering a generic path like C:// will add dozens of files. This will increase the indexed entries and slow down the file search. Make entries in the Catalog for directories where you most probably store your files.

    #App Launcher #Windows Tools #Productivity

  6. 6
    CP

    Cerebro Pro

    This product hasn't been added to SaaSHub yet
    The outlook of Cerebro Pro is similar to Spotlight search and it even replicates the functionality. The search results are displayed below the search bar and the layout is exactly like the Spotlight Search. The highlight of the app is it even shows up results from the web. This is an added bonus as you don’t need to open the browser window to type the search string.

Discuss: Looking For Spotlight for Windows 10? Here Are Five Alternatives

Log in or Post with