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Spotlight VS OS X Launchpad

Compare Spotlight VS OS X Launchpad and see what are their differences

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Spotlight logo Spotlight

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.

OS X Launchpad logo OS X Launchpad

OS X's built in application launcher is clean and simple and tends to get overlooked.
  • Spotlight Landing page
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    2023-05-01
  • OS X Launchpad Landing page
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    2023-05-03

Spotlight videos

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Spotlight - Movie Review

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  • Review - Spotlight Official Movie Review
  • Review - How Spotlight Dramatizes Good Journalism

OS X Launchpad videos

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Spotlight and OS X Launchpad)

Spotlight

OS X Launchpad

Productivity
86 86%
Productivity
14% 14
App Launcher
89 89%
App Launcher
11% 11
Mac
68 68%
Mac
32% 32
Music
100 100%
Music
0% 0

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Spotlight and OS X Launchpad

Spotlight Reviews

Looking For Spotlight for Windows 10? Here Are Five Alternatives
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.
Source: techwiser.com

OS X Launchpad Reviews

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Spotlight seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 5 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Spotlight mentions (5)

  • Just bought my first Mac/Apple device (Macbook Air M2)
    I want to add another tip: learn to use Spotlight Search to launch apps, search for files or make google queries. To do so, type COMMAND + SPACEBAR. Down the road, once you get comfortable with Spotlight Search, you can replace it with alternative apps like Alfred or Raycast. Using the keyboard to launch apps and open files, from anywhere, takes macOS to another level of mind-meld. Highly recommend. Source: about 1 year ago
  • First time at a Mac/Google shop - teach me your ways
    Spotlight Search - The equivalent of searching in the start menu on a PC, but it actually works. Source: over 1 year ago
  • macOS using 7 cores and 19 gigs of ram to perform subtraction
    It seems they are using it as intended. Apple lists what op does as a supported usecase.. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/spotlight-mchlp1008/mac. Source: over 2 years ago
  • App disappeared on Mac
    Hi there, sorry to hear that. It's possible that the app has disappeared from the dock after updating to the latest stable version that was released today (v3.8.0) but should still be in the list of apps that you have installed or discoverable via Spotlight. If it's still not there, please let us know. You should be able to install it from the downloads page and it should retain your preferences, but create a... Source: almost 3 years ago
  • The right way to use Finder?
    One other thing I forgot to mention is Spotlight. As long as you know the name of file or folder (or other details) you can find it quickly with Spotlight. Just click the magnifying glass in the menu bar, or press CMD + Space. Source: almost 3 years ago

OS X Launchpad mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of OS X Launchpad yet. Tracking of OS X Launchpad recommendations started around Mar 2021.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Spotlight and OS X Launchpad, you can also consider the following products

Raycast - Fastest way to control Jira, GitHub and other web apps

Alfred - Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.

eesel - The new tab for work

GitHub - Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.

Slapdash - Fastest way to work across your cloud apps ⚡️

ReadMe - A collaborative developer hub for your API or code.

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