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30 open-source projects similar to ulauncher/ulauncher, ranked by shared indexed features. Tags may describe platforms or build tools rather than the same primary purpose. Check each project’s use case, license, and deployment requirements before treating it as a replacement.

  • albertlauncher/albertalbertlauncher avatar

    albertlauncher/albert

    7,945View on GitHub↗

    Albert is a keyboard launcher that opens files, applications, and runs commands by typing search queries into a search bar. It functions as a keyboard-driven workflow tool, enabling users to navigate their file system, launch installed applications, and execute shell commands without touching a mouse. The launcher processes user input through a plugin-based modular architecture, where functionality is extended by dynamically loaded C++ and Python plugins. Queries are dispatched to all enabled handlers in parallel, with results merged and ranked by a combination of match quality and historical

    C++albertalbertlauncherapplication-launcher
    View on GitHub↗7,945
  • davatorium/rofidavatorium avatar

    davatorium/rofi

    16,213View on GitHub↗

    Rofi is a keyboard-driven application launcher and window switcher for X11 desktops. It functions as a scriptable command palette and a compatible emulator for dmenu, capable of reading options from standard input and returning a user selection to standard output. The project is distinguished by a customizable window interface using a CSS-like theming system and a flexible box-model widget hierarchy. It features a recursive theme inheritance system and responsive styling that adapts based on screen dimensions and monitor identifiers. The tool provides advanced text filtering using fuzzy, reg

    Capplication-launchercdmenu
    View on GitHub↗16,213
  • spicetify/clispicetify avatar

    spicetify/cli

    23,479View on GitHub↗

    This project is a command-line utility and development framework designed to modify, extend, and customize the Spotify desktop client. It functions as a binary patching engine that injects custom scripts, stylesheets, and interface components directly into the host application, enabling users to alter visual themes and add new functionality. The tool distinguishes itself by providing a comprehensive development environment for building modular extensions and custom applications. It includes a hot-reloading pipeline for rapid iteration, a declarative library for constructing interactive UI pan

    JavaScriptcommand-linecommand-line-toolcustomization
    View on GitHub↗23,479

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  • abenz1267/walkerabenz1267 avatar

    abenz1267/walker

    2,549View on GitHub↗

    Walker is a centralized search interface and application launcher designed to find and start installed software, system tools, and local files. It functions as a single entry point for executing desktop applications, running shell commands, and managing system scripts. The project uses a provider-based plugin architecture to extend its capabilities via independent modules. It allows for deep visual and behavioral customization through CSS styling, XML-defined layout templates, and layered configuration overrides. The system includes integrated productivity tooling for mathematical calculatio

    Rustrunnerrustwayland
    View on GitHub↗2,549
  • cerebroapp/cerebrocerebroapp avatar

    cerebroapp/cerebro

    8,541View on GitHub↗

    Cerebro is a cross-platform productivity tool and keyboard-driven command palette. It serves as a central search interface and desktop application launcher for finding and initiating the execution of local files, installed software, and web services. The application is an extensible search tool that supports a plugin system, allowing third-party modules to register custom search providers and new functional capabilities. The software covers several capability areas, including local file system navigation and preview, integrated web search, and productivity utilities for natural language mat

    JavaScriptcerebroelectronlauncher
    View on GitHub↗8,541
  • nvim-telescope/telescope.nvimnvim-telescope avatar

    nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim

    19,083View on GitHub↗

    Telescope is a fuzzy search interface for the Neovim text editor, designed to provide rapid access to files, buffers, and project-wide data. It functions as a keyboard-driven command palette that allows users to locate and navigate complex directory structures and codebase content through real-time filtering. The system is built on a modular architecture that utilizes a pluggable interface to fetch data from diverse sources, including file systems, version control repositories, and language server protocols. By separating input collection from data retrieval, it maintains a decoupled state ma

    Lualuaneovimneovim-plugin
    View on GitHub↗19,083
  • kelion/cerebroKELiON avatar

    KELiON/cerebro

    8,540View on GitHub↗

    Cerebro is a desktop application launcher and search interface that provides a minimalist overlay for finding files, launching software, and executing web queries. It functions as a centralized command bar designed for desktop productivity and rapid system navigation. The project features an extensible plugin framework and a modular architecture, allowing third-party add-ons to integrate new tools and capabilities through a standardized API. It also includes a customizable theme engine that enables users to adjust the visual appearance and styles of the workspace interface. The interface sup

    JavaScript
    View on GitHub↗8,540
  • oliverschwendener/uelioliverschwendener avatar

    oliverschwendener/ueli

    4,541View on GitHub↗

    Ueli is a cross-platform productivity toolkit that provides a keyboard-centric interface for launching applications, opening files, and executing utility extensions. It functions as a desktop productivity tool designed to reduce navigation time through a central command bar and keystroke-based search. The system features a pluggable utility toolkit, allowing the execution of specific tasks such as mathematical calculations, unit conversions, and password generation directly from the search input. It utilizes a pluggable extension architecture to decouple these utility tools from the core laun

    TypeScript
    View on GitHub↗4,541
  • adi1090x/rofiadi1090x avatar

    adi1090x/rofi

    8,403View on GitHub↗

    This project is a keyboard-driven menu framework and application launcher for X11 and Wayland desktop environments. It serves as a customizable system control interface for building themed popup menus and applets. The framework allows for extensive visual style customization and the creation of themed launchers through configuration files and style presets. It enables the construction of personalized Linux desktop interfaces by separating functional applets into a modular script architecture. The system covers broad management capabilities, including hardware control for audio and brightness

    Shellarcharchcraftarchcraft-os
    View on GitHub↗8,403
  • avengemedia/dankmaterialshellAvengeMedia avatar

    AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell

    4,403View on GitHub↗

    DankMaterialShell is a complete Wayland desktop environment that provides a unified set of panels, widgets, system tray, notifications, and an application launcher out of the box. It is built on a plugin-based shell architecture that allows for extending the desktop with custom widgets, launcher items, and background services through a unified component interface. The shell renders its panels, widgets, and overlays using the Wayland layer shell protocol for compositor-agnostic desktop integration. The project distinguishes itself through several integrated capabilities that work together as a

    QMLdwlgohyprland
    View on GitHub↗4,403
  • pintaproject/pintaPintaProject avatar

    PintaProject/Pinta

    3,771View on GitHub↗

    Pinta is a cross-platform raster graphics editor and digital image manipulation tool. It provides a drawing environment for creating pixel-based artwork and editing photographs, utilizing a layer-based image model to organize visual components into a stack for non-destructive composition. The application is built with a GTK-based interface and features a plugin-based extension system that allows for the addition of new editing tools and filters. Its capabilities cover digital drawing workflows using various brushes and pencils, image geometry manipulation such as cropping and resizing, and v

    C#csharpdotnetdrawing
    View on GitHub↗3,771
  • miguelmota/cointopmiguelmota avatar

    miguelmota/cointop

    4,395View on GitHub↗

    Cointop is a cryptocurrency terminal user interface designed for monitoring real-time market statistics, prices, and asset trends. It serves as a market dashboard and portfolio tracker, enabling the management of personal asset holdings and the calculation of profit and loss within a command line environment. The project distinguishes itself with a server capability that allows the interface to be hosted and accessed remotely via secure shell sessions. It also includes a notification system that triggers desktop alerts when specific assets reach predefined price thresholds. The application p

    Go
    View on GitHub↗4,395
  • getgrav/gravgetgrav avatar

    getgrav/grav

    15,395View on GitHub↗

    Grav is a flat-file content management system that eliminates the need for a traditional database by storing site content and configuration in human-readable Markdown and YAML files. Built as a modular PHP web framework, it uses a hierarchical page routing system where the physical directory structure directly determines the site's URL paths. The platform is distinguished by its event-driven plugin architecture and a command-line interface that prioritizes system administration, deployment, and maintenance tasks. It utilizes a blueprint-driven system to generate administrative forms from stru

    PHPcmscontentcontent-management
    View on GitHub↗15,395
  • sinelaw/freshsinelaw avatar

    sinelaw/fresh

    5,914View on GitHub↗

    Zed is a terminal-based code editor built in Rust that provides a full-featured editing experience with familiar keybindings, mouse support, and multiple cursors. It runs entirely in the terminal while offering capabilities typically found in graphical editors, including split panes, a command palette, and integrated language server protocol support for real-time diagnostics, completions, go-to-definition, and code actions across multiple languages. The editor distinguishes itself through a plugin system that runs sandboxed TypeScript plugins in a QuickJS runtime, with an asynchronous bridge

    Rustideterminal-basedtext-editor
    View on GitHub↗5,914
  • textualize/toolongTextualize avatar

    Textualize/toolong

    3,921View on GitHub↗

    toolong is a terminal log viewer and TUI log manager designed for monitoring live log streams and navigating large log files. It functions as a log aggregator and JSONL formatter, capable of merging multiple log files into a single chronological view by automatically detecting timestamps. The application supports the visualization of structured data by pretty printing JSONL files and applying syntax highlighting to common web server log patterns. It handles large-scale data efficiently through virtual-sized scrollable views, allowing users to open compressed logs or files of any size without

    Pythonjsonlrichterminal
    View on GitHub↗3,921
  • textualize/textualTextualize avatar

    Textualize/textual

    36,285View on GitHub↗

    This project is a framework for building interactive, graphical-style terminal applications. It provides a declarative component model that organizes user interfaces into a tree of nested widgets, each managing its own lifecycle, state, and rendering. By subclassing the base application class, developers can construct complex, keyboard-navigable interfaces that run directly within terminal emulators. The framework distinguishes itself through a reactive architecture and a CSS-based layout engine. It uses a reactive attribute system to automatically track state changes and trigger targeted int

    Pythoncliframeworkpython
    View on GitHub↗36,285
  • cointop-sh/cointopcointop-sh avatar

    cointop-sh/cointop

    4,377View on GitHub↗

    Cointop is a terminal-based cryptocurrency dashboard that displays real-time market data, prices, and portfolio values in a text-based interface. It aggregates data from multiple cryptocurrency exchange APIs and presents it in an interactive terminal user interface with vim-inspired keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control. The application distinguishes itself by embedding an SSH server that allows remote access to the dashboard from any device, with persistent client configuration tied to individual SSH keys. It includes a fuzzy search system for quickly finding coins by name, desktop n

    Gobitcoinblockchaincli
    View on GitHub↗4,377
  • mpvnet-player/mpv.netmpvnet-player avatar

    mpvnet-player/mpv.net

    5,155View on GitHub↗

    mpv.net is a Windows graphical user interface for the mpv media player. It serves as a customizable multimedia frontend and hardware-accelerated video player that renders high-fidelity video and audio content. The project distinguishes itself by providing a searchable graphical interface for managing player settings and configuration files, alongside a themeable visual style. It supports extensibility through a scripting engine and allows for external playback management via JSON-based communication and command line interfaces. The application covers a broad range of media playback capabilit

    C#audio-playercommand-linedotnet
    View on GitHub↗5,155
  • glzr-io/glazewmglzr-io avatar

    glzr-io/glazewm

    12,314View on GitHub↗

    Glazewm is a tiling window manager and desktop automation framework designed to organize application windows into non-overlapping layouts. It functions as a keyboard-driven controller, allowing users to manage window focus, workspace navigation, and layout configurations entirely through custom keybindings. By intercepting system-level events, the software overrides default window placement and behavior to maximize screen space and maintain a structured workspace. The project distinguishes itself through a highly configurable environment that supports complex multi-monitor setups and dynamic

    Rusti3wmrusttiling-window-manager
    View on GitHub↗12,314
  • alexays/waybarAlexays avatar

    Alexays/Waybar

    10,686View on GitHub↗

    Waybar is a modular status bar for Wayland compositors that provides a configuration-driven interface for system monitoring and desktop management. It functions as a shell component that integrates directly with Wayland protocols to track window manager states, manage system tray icons, and display real-time hardware, network, and power metrics. The project distinguishes itself through a highly flexible architecture that allows for independent or synchronized interface bars across multiple monitors, each with unique layout and styling rules. Users can extend the bar's functionality by creatin

    C++bargtki3status
    View on GitHub↗10,686
  • rocksdanister/livelyrocksdanister avatar

    rocksdanister/lively

    18,243View on GitHub↗

    Lively is a desktop wallpaper engine for Windows that renders videos, web pages, and interactive shaders as dynamic, animated backgrounds. It functions by creating a transparent window layer behind desktop icons, utilizing native system handles to integrate content directly into the workspace. The application provides tools for system personalization, including the ability to adjust taskbar transparency and application themes to modify the visual style of the operating system. It also includes a command-line interface that allows for the automation of background playback and system configurat

    C#csharpdesktopdesktop-wallpaper
    View on GitHub↗18,243
  • allweonedev/presentation-aiallweonedev avatar

    allweonedev/presentation-ai

    2,480View on GitHub↗

    Presentation-ai is a system for the automated creation of slide decks and visual layouts from text descriptions or specific topics using large language models. It generates structured content and maps it to visual templates to produce complete presentations. The project distinguishes itself by supporting local language model integration, allowing for private content generation without reliance on external cloud providers. It also includes an AI image generator to produce context-aware visual assets and imagery tailored to the presentation content. The platform provides a web-based editor for

    TypeScriptaiall-in-oneallweone
    View on GitHub↗2,480
  • maxbachmann/rapidfuzzmaxbachmann avatar

    maxbachmann/rapidfuzz

    3,958View on GitHub↗

    This is a Python fuzzy string matching library used for calculating string similarity and edit distances. It serves as a collection of string distance algorithms, a sequence alignment tool, and an approximate string search engine to measure text similarity. The library provides a wide array of metrics to quantify string closeness, including Levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler, Hamming, and Damerau-Levenshtein distances. It supports similarity analysis through longest common subsequence calculations, token-based comparisons, and weighted scoring to account for differences in content and word order. Bey

    Python
    View on GitHub↗3,958
  • rubickcenter/rubickrubickCenter avatar

    rubickCenter/rubick

    9,957View on GitHub↗

    Rubick is a cross-platform desktop launcher built on Electron that provides a keyboard-activated search interface for quickly finding and launching local applications, files, and folders. It functions as a plugin-based desktop utility, treating each plugin as an npm package that can be installed, removed, and managed through standard npm tooling, with a built-in marketplace for discovery and lifecycle management. The project distinguishes itself through its support for self-hosted and intranet-only deployment, enabling enterprise environments to run the toolbox entirely within an internal net

    TypeScriptcross-platformdesktop-appelectron
    View on GitHub↗9,957
  • rapidfuzz/rapidfuzzrapidfuzz avatar

    rapidfuzz/RapidFuzz

    3,731View on GitHub↗

    RapidFuzz is a C++ accelerated Python library providing high-performance string comparison and similarity calculations. It functions as a fuzzy string matching toolkit used to quantify the difference between text sequences through Levenshtein distance and other edit distance metrics. The library focuses on scalable approximate text matching, enabling the identification and ranking of similar strings within large datasets. It provides specialized utilities for finding the best matches in a collection and generating pairwise similarity matrices. The project covers a broad surface of text proce

    Pythoncpplevenshteinlevenshtein-distance
    View on GitHub↗3,731
  • bookerliu/geekdeskBookerLiu avatar

    BookerLiu/GeekDesk

    2,747View on GitHub↗

    GeekDesk is a Windows desktop quick-launch panel that opens with a global hotkey or middle-click, providing instant access to files and applications. Built as a native Win32 application, it renders its interface directly using Windows window and graphics APIs without relying on any web or cross-platform framework. The launcher integrates with the Everything search engine to perform full-disk file searches and display results directly within the panel. It also includes a timed reminder scheduler for setting up one-time or recurring notifications, and supports extensive visual customization thr

    C#desktop-appdesktop-toolgeekdesk
    View on GitHub↗2,747
  • lotabout/skimlotabout avatar

    lotabout/skim

    6,850View on GitHub↗

    Skim is an interactive text filter and terminal selection tool written in Rust. It functions as a command line interface utility that processes input streams to isolate specific entries through real-time user queries and sorting. The tool differentiates itself through ANSI compatibility, allowing it to parse color codes and maintain text formatting during the search process. It supports multiple matching strategies, including configurable fuzzy matching algorithms and regular expression integration. The application covers a broad range of capabilities including field-specific filtering, resu

    Rust
    View on GitHub↗6,850
  • clvv/fasdclvv avatar

    clvv/fasd

    5,915View on GitHub↗

    fasd is a frecency-based path navigator and POSIX shell productivity tool designed to accelerate navigation between files and directories. It functions as a command-line wrapper that resolves shorthand queries into absolute paths by ranking results based on how often and how recently they have been accessed. The utility uses fuzzy string matching and case-insensitive lookups to resolve partial directory and file names. It can also import access history from external backends, such as text editors and desktop environments, to refine the accuracy of its ranking database. The tool provides shel

    Shell
    View on GitHub↗5,915
  • wox-launcher/woxWox-launcher avatar

    Wox-launcher/Wox

    27,046View on GitHub↗

    Wox is a keyboard-driven command interface designed to centralize desktop productivity, system navigation, and workflow automation. It functions as a launcher that enables users to open applications, manage files, and execute system commands through a unified, text-based overlay. By integrating a modular plugin framework, the application allows for the expansion of its core capabilities to include specialized search providers and custom system utilities. The platform distinguishes itself through the integration of language models, which enable natural language search and the automation of tex

    Goalfredlauncherlaunchy
    View on GitHub↗27,046
  • flow-launcher/flow.launcherFlow-Launcher avatar

    Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

    13,899View on GitHub↗

    Flow.Launcher is an extensible desktop productivity tool for Windows that provides a centralized, command-line style interface for launching applications, files, and system settings. Built in C#, it functions as a keyboard-driven launcher that allows users to execute system tasks, perform web searches, and manage administrative operations directly from a unified search input. The project is defined by its modular plugin architecture, which enables the integration of third-party extensions to add custom search providers, specialized workflows, and system command capabilities. Users can further

    C#alfredapplication-launcherdesktop
    View on GitHub↗13,899