Top 9 Open-Source Alternatives to Shortcat

Shortcat

Keep your hands on the keyboard and boost your productivity! Shortcat is a keyboard tool for Mac OS X that lets you 'click' buttons and control your apps with a few keystrokes. Think of it as Spotlight for the user interface.

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Customisable Web Browser Developer Tools IDE IDEs And Text Editors Open Source Privacy Productivity Software Development Text Editors Web Browsers Web Development Tools Web Tools

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Shortcat are Vimac, Surfingkeys, and qutebrowser. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Vimac Landing Page
1

Vimac

Like Vimium but for macOS.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Browsers #Text Editors #Web Development Tools 15 social mentions
Surfingkeys Landing Page
2

Surfingkeys

Rich shortcuts to click links/switch tabs/scroll pages or capture full page, use Chrome like vim for productivity.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Browsers #Text Editors #Web Development Tools 1 social mentions
qutebrowser Landing Page
3

qutebrowser

An actively developped, keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI, inspired by other...
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 48 social mentions
Brave Landing Page
4

Brave

Fast and secure, ad and tracker blocking browser.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 577 social mentions
kindaVim Landing Page
5

kindaVim

kindaVim brings Vim motions in input fields and non input fields on macOS.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Productivity #Developer Tools #Tech 13 social mentions
Neovim Landing Page
6

Neovim

Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions
Visual Studio Code Landing Page
7

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1014 social mentions
Vim Landing Page
8

Vim

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #Software Development #IDE 10 social mentions
Spacemacs Landing Page
9

Spacemacs

Community-driven Emacs distribution that meshes Emacs and Vim features.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 6 social mentions