6 Best Alfred App Alternatives for Windows to Be More Productive

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Alfred

Alfred app is like the swiss army knife for the macOS ecosystem. But what about Windows? Well, there is Windows Search but it’s not good enough. There are, however, a few Windows apps that can help ease your day-to-day workflows. Let’s see if we can replace Alfred on Windows using a combination of apps. Presenting some Alfred alternatives for Windows users.

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PowerToys

PowerToys has been brought back from the dead and turned into an open-source project that you can download and use for free. It comes with a growing number of utility tools like Color Picker to help find hash codes of any color in an image, Awake to keep the screen awake without having to mess with power settings, Keyboard Manager to remap keys, Run that mimics macOS’s search feature, and more.

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Everything by Voidtools

If you are looking for the most powerful search engine, for your Windows machine, install Everything. It is a lightweight search app that is quick with a small footprint. Everything, as the name suggests, literally indexes every single file and folder on your computer within moments. What’s more? Results are displayed in real-time as you type making the search snappy. You will find things that you didn’t even know existed on your computer. A lean app with a clean but dated UI.

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Listary

Where Everything will help you find and open almost all files, system or user, on Windows, Listary will do the same for apps. So what’s the big deal, you ask? Listary allows you to create handy keyboard shortcuts to search the web, open specific apps, and perform simple tasks. Listary also acts as a powerful file search and management utility making it a more rounded option. A particularly handy trick is search operators allowing you to filter files and narrow the search results.

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Hain

Like some other apps in the list. Hain sports a simple albeit easy-to-use user interface that’s dated. But that also helps improve the performance and speed of the app. One of the cool things about Hain is that you can get away with typos. So, for example, searching for ‘wrd’ will still open the Word app.

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