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Slik

Version 2.1.1

Fast app launcher and web app organizer

5.0
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Slik overview

Slik allows you tocreate organized and amazing collection of your precious apps to find them quickly. Everything is designed to be responsive, efficient and showcase your apps. Blazing fast, keyboard-driven, Apps and Web Apps launcher.

Import and organize your applications via Drag & Drop into categories, add tags, colors, ratings, and find and launch them as fast as the light. Finding and launching apps in Slik is as simple as powerful. As soon as you start typing a part of the application name, a tag, or a number of stars, and the desired apps appear instantly - press the space bar or arrow keys to select the app, and press enter to launch.

Web Apps

Mix your Web Apps with your collection of macOS apps, and customize the appearance of the window as you like. Choose the color for the title bar that fits best with the web page design - desktop or mobile version - or just hide the title bar to get a borderless delightful experience. Your web applications looks like a native app, and you can keep his window floating on top while you are working with other apps.

Browser

Among all these great features, you can use Slik as a fast and reliable browser. The powerful built-in browser allows you to instantly open a website or a document, make a search on the web, or watch online videos in less time than it takes to blink your eyes.

A search bar allows you to search on the web or open a website URL, and with predefined prefixes, search instantly on websites like Youtube, Stack Overflow, Google Images…

Preview Markdown documents on the fly, with support for table-of-content and metadata. The browser window automatically adapts to the dimensions of the image when viewing images.

Change rapidly the size of the window, from a menu containing pre-defined sizes like an iPhone, iPad, a TV, and you can rotate or resize the window to fit the video format with keyboard shortcuts. Slik can be used by web designers and developers when they work on their responsive design websites. You can also choose between mobile or desktop version of the page by using a predefined User-agent.

Here’s why we think you’ll love Slik

  • Two types of presentation, dock and normal, and you can set the size of the icons for each one.
  • Theme colors.
  • Launch Apps via the Touch Bar.
  • Launch all Apps in a category at once.
  • Drag-and-Drop app import and ordering.
  • Organize apps into categories, with customizable icon.
  • Running Applications Category: activate, quit or reload active apps on your Mac - including menu bar apps.
  • Keyboard shortcut to activate Slik no matter what app you’re in.
  • Change the name or the icon of the app
  • Automatically check for the availability of the apps in the system.
  • Menu Bar Assistant to launch apps or activate running apps even if Slik is hidden.
Web Apps
  • Add Web Apps and launch them like native apps.
  • Gorgeous built-in collection of preselected web apps to import in one click.
  • Customize the color of the Title bar to match your web app design - Slik change automatically the color of the title bar when you visit a selection of websites.
  • Borderless & Float on Top Window option.
  • Work with Google Hangouts, Skype, Facebook Messenger, Youtube TV, Vimeo Couch Mode, etc.
  • Fast, simple and powerful alternative browser - open links instantly with Slik.
  • Video Mode for Youtube, Vimeo, Twitch. Watch online videos in a borderless window on top of other windows, resize the video with the keyboard.
  • Specific Menu with functionalities for some sites like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc.
  • Search Bar - with prefixes to search directly on websites like DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, Google, Youtube, Yahoo, Stack Overflow…
  • Open HTML pages, images, PDF documents, Markdown documents.
  • Touch Bar support.

Exempt of Inception effect, you can add Slik into Slik. Made for macOS Apps lovers like us (and for those who forget the name of the apps whenever the time comes to use it), hope you will enjoy. Feedback are welcome.

What’s new in version 2.1.1

Updated on Apr 27 2019

Version 2.1.1:
  • New contextual menu to access some useful Slik functionalities, like filters, faster with the mouse. Right click anywhere on an empty zone of the window.
  • Added collection's categories and apps count labels to this menu.
  • Navigation, with arrow keys and space bar, jump to the next line when it reaches the end of the line, as it should normally do.
  • When the editor is open you can now use the shortcuts ⌘ + ← →, normally used to switch categories, to navigate between apps.
  • Additionally you can press ⇧ + enter while validating a text input (name, tags) to jump to next app.
  • Updated built-in Browser User-Agents.
  • Default browser User-Agent is now Slik (was "Computer").
  • Advanced users can now define their own custom browser User-Agent (computer or mobile).
  • App Information Panel displays now if the app comes from the Mac App Store, or if it is a Web App.
  • The Mac App Store label is a button who open the app MAS page.
  • Last used date added to the Information panel.
  • New search option added, search in your collection for Mac App Store Apps.
  • Added "Last Modified" and "Last Added" apps searches options.
  • App launch counter is updated if the system return a superior usage value for the app.
  • Corrected animation issue and tuned performance.
  • Refresh menu option ⌘ + U works with current search filter (useful when adding tags).
  • Updated the documentation about the built-in browser and especially about how to open a YouTube or Vimeo video remotely with the URL scheme.
  • Browser's window "Close" keyboard shortcut works now as expected. This shortcut is disabled for the collection's window to avoid closing the collection by mistake.

Information

License

Demo

Size

26.8 MB

Downloads

330

App requirements

  • Intel 64
  • OS X 10.11 or later
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The-Big-K
The-Big-K
Jun 16 2023
2.1.1
5.0
Jun 16 2023
5.0
Version: 2.1.1
This app is listed as Intel only, but I downloaded it and it seems to work perfectly on my Mac Studio with the M1 Max chip. I use Alfred to routinely launch apps...but that works only when I can remember their names, and I have 336 of them! Being able to modify panel backgrounds and other elements is a major plus. I previously used Overflow, but it stopped working, and AFAIK the dev is still taking money for an app that will not work.
The-Big-K
The-Big-K
Jun 16 2023
2.1.1
5.0
Jun 16 2023
5.0
Version: 2.1.1
Atika33
Atika33
May 2 2019
5.0
May 2 2019
5.0
Version: null
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