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DESCRIPTION
LaunchBar is an award winning productivity utility that offers an amazingly intuitive and efficient way to search and access any kind of information stored on your computer or on the web. It provides instant access to your applications, documents, contacts and bookmarks, to your music library, to search engines and more, just by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name.
You just hit Command-Space to bring LaunchBar's input window to front, enter an arbitrary abbreviation, and as soon as you start typing LaunchBar displays the best matching choices, ready to be opened immediately.
Start applications, open documents, invoke system services, compose emails or navigate the web - LaunchBar will be your essential servant.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.0.2:
- Note: Due to a necessary change in the internal representation of service items, existing abbreviation bindings for these items are not preserved. It may be necessary to re-train (or re-assign) the affected abbreviations.
- Fixed: Services didn’t work on non-English systems.
- Improved Services indexing, avoiding duplicates if an application is installed twice or more.
- Fixed a memory leak during Services indexing.
- Fixed an issue causing the “open location” AppleScript command to fail if invoked in the context of LaunchBar.
- Fixed an issue with “Hide Dock Icon”.
- Fixed: Due to a bug in Mac OS X some categories were labeled with an incorrect name (e.g. Preview Documents instead of PDF Documents).
- Fixed: Sending text to applications by pressing Tab didn’t work with some applications and it didn’t work at all on non-English systems.
- Added Wolfram Alpha search template to factory configuration.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| LaunchBar User Reviews (218 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Nov 5 2009 |
HAMDI What is a single seat, for God's sake? Even bikes have two. Besides, the common practice in the Mac community is letting two licenses (even three) in one purchase as most of us have a desktop and a macbook. This issue remains ambigious on their website. It has been raised by a user in their forums, but is left unanswered to this day. Besides, when you try to contact them, the developers do not encourage you to do so -you are just said: 'due to high volume of mails we receive every day we are not able to respond personally, but be sure we read them,' blah blah. Well, a Microsoftish attitude, it seems. Not inviting, to say the least. The software is great, though. No doubt of that. But I will not pay for it until they promise support for support, and show us a nicer face. Will stick to good old and now much crippled QS. | |
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 | Sep 13 2009 |
ICONZ113 Ok Ive been using this for a little while after quicksilver started crapping out, and im sort of surprised Ive havent heard more about this app even back when i was on QS, this app is fine and does everything I need it to, The more I use it the faster im getting with performing actions and making the computer do what I want, and the biggest plus is that its currently working, stable, and being developed. I think Ill be staying with launchbar, RIP QS.
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| Sep 11 2009 |
MTCOBRA You have to pay for an upgrade (from 4 to 5) if you want the Snow Leopard version. 30-day trial. I downloaded the program Aug 28, but already the 30-days are up. Upgrade cost: Varies depending on how you pay. PAYPAL will cost you over $3.00 additional sur-charge. Illinois residents pay $.78 sales tax. The add-on fees just keep on coming! Snow Leopard has released its first revision 10.6.1. Will LaunchBar want me to pay for another upgrade?
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| Nov 5 2009 |
ROBOTANK That's a rather silly post. Fees for PayPal are to cover the fees the developer has to pay to PayPal to use it as a payment method, while sales taxes are determined by location and so have nothing whatsoever to do with the developer. The other nonsensical thing you complain about is the requirement of LB 5 for Snow Leopard compatibility. LaunchBar 5 was in public beta, and therefore under development, long before Snow Leopard came out. You're not paying an upgrade cost just for Snow Leopard compatibility--you're paying it for a new major version upgrade to LaunchBar that includes Snow Leopard compatibility among its numerous other improvements. Do you really expect the developers to make LB 4 Snow Leopard compatible when it's not the current version of the app? If, like me, you find LB to be one of the most useful apps in existence, you won't grudge the upgrade fee (which, by the way, is not excessive). If you don't think LB is that great, then go check out the latest QuickSilver beta or Google QuickSearchBox, both of which are free, and stop whining about non-existent injustices.
(Version 5.0.2) | |
| Sep 8 2009 |
DONPERREAULT Another "Best Of It's Kind" winner. LaunchBar has is the FIRST application I install when do a new install of Mac OS X. It keeps your hands on the keyboard where you want them and saves the user hours of time in small increments. Keep up the great work at Objective Development!
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| Sep 8 2009 |
ICONZ113 Because of the 10.6 update I think launchbar is gonna get everyone coming over from quicksilver. Ive been using the app since the SL release and I have to say I like it alot, as a QS user you have to unlearn some old habits but after a little while it comes pretty easy. If you have just upgraded to SL and looking for a QS alternative, this is it. One small issue I have is the dock icon visible when the app is running, however there is an option to disable the dock icon but some functionality is lost when doing so, like dropping files or folder onto the launchbar icon to perform actions. Not that big of a deal considering I keep the dock hidden anyway.
(Version 5.0rc4) | |
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| Sep 4 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Bug in Snow Leopard: Remove From Dock does not work. I love Launchbar, but I don't want it in my Dock. Please fix. (Btw, I have the new Clipboard feature disabled and it still won't step off my dock.)
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| Sep 4 2009 |
ICONZ113 with these kind of applications, launchbar, quicksilver, you always have ppl complaining, "what does it do? is doesn't do anything, this is useless, or Just use spotlight" they dont understand that these tools can become invaluable to your workflow when used correctly increasing your efficiency. right now im still using quicksilver but thinking about switching over to this, anyone that had switched from QS what do u think of launchbar in comparison?
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| Aug 6 2009 |
STEVE4656 I saw the consistently glowing reviews here for Launchbar so I decide to try it. All that happens is grey bar on the screen, with drop down menus. So what? What does it actually do that is so great?
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| Aug 9 2009 |
MATHIAS RHEIN Actually, what You have there is the ultimate no-frills file manager- try typing in "pag" and pressing enter and left arrow- you will get a list of all the recently opened files with pages WITHOUT OPENING PAGES... this is just the kickoff, check out the help to learn more tricks You will not want to live without!
(Version 5.0rc3) | |
| Jun 16 2009 |
SVRROOT well, for my feeling 24 bugs for this little software is a bit to much...
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| Jun 1 2009 |
LARRYMCJ Thanks, LEONCAHUN...but I think your emphasis on two things that are indispensable to you...are exactly why I don't need LB (even though I like it and it's certainly better than QuickSilver. I only use my Mac about an hour a day. I sometimes go for several days and don't open a folder in /Documents. I use the same six or seven programs daily so I just use Application Wizard to open them all at once in the morning and close them in the evening (to prevent memory leaks). So I don't need SPEED and the few other things you mention you do with LB I know how to do, but they aren't important to me. So it's a great app and I haven't really missed anything :-) It's just not for me. Thanks for confirming this.
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