Alfred for macOS

“Alfred uses the same Spotlight index AFAIK, but lightning fast.”

“set up an Alfred workflow for that using a special hotkey”

“Alfred is good but is just a wrapper around Spotlight”

“alfred and quicksilver etc. all work surprisingly well”

“i still use alfred. wish it was there for ios”

“This is why I use Alfred instead of spotlight.”

“The first thing I do on any mac is replace the default search, usually with alfred.”

“Alfred is wonderful for launching applications and custom actions, but it’s actually worse than Spotlight search for searching for files and folders”

“Alfred is one of the first things I install on a new MacOS install.”

“Both work marginally better (for me) when used in concert with the quick-find tools like Alfred”

“Alternatives like Alfred should work anywhere”

“I have personally used alfred for a while, and love it as a productivity tool”

“My licenses to Things, Alfred, Little Snitch, etc. still work to this day.”

“My own Alfred replacement is actually better for me, it's tailored to exactly how I want to use an app launcher / shortcut tool.”

“I once attempted to demonstrate to her the brilliance of Alfred, Raycast”

“used Alfred to make a GUI for it. Now it feels like a full-blown GUI”

“created a workflow in Alfred to search from desktop”

“If you want to throw money into it, Alfred power pack is £34 and supports a great company with a lifetime purchase.”

“For free, I can use Alfred/Raycast, Aerospace, and either sketchybar or zebar”

“it's a less cognitively burdensome workflow for me as the day goes on than cmd tab would be”

“Both are easily extensible, so you could certainly wire either up to the local (or hosted) LLM of your choice.”

“It's usually very fast to type "cmd-space", and then type 3-4 letters to find the macro I want.”

“the recommendation from pro users is to use Alfred to manage windows”

“I switched to Alfred years ago and I don't see myself switching back anytime soon.”

“It's pretty fast and live-updates as you type.”

“Alfred's search seems to be several times faster than Tuna's search”

“I've been a satisfied Alfred user for ~10 years”

“Alfred's is solid, especially stands out with `in` search.”

“I started teaching my daughters to use Alfred”

“It's infuriating, which is why I prefer to use spotlight (actually Alfred) or the app switcher.”

“One thing that has helped me the most in that regard is Alfred's multi-clipboard feature”

“I've had a pretty good experience setting up a launcher of some kind that can fuzzy find from my open programs/windows.”

“it's a great app, use it every few minutes every day”

“Lots of third-party developers making good software helped”

“Retail traders and smaller funds have zero access to institutional-grade synthesis.”

“I use Alfred a ton throughout the day. I have many workflows and other settings that I set up years ago that are absolutely indispensable to me.”

“I really like Alfred, it's a worthy descendant of QS for sure”

“Alfred isn't the shiniest thing anymore but it's stood the time remarkably well”

“Dumped it for Alfred. Took a few weeks, but I'm happy.”

“has been an indispensable part of my computing since it debuted”