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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.
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| LaunchBar User Reviews (188 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 22 2008 |
APPLESTAR Great. I was using Quicksilver until I tried this application. Less memory ressources and it will do everything I need. Happy registered user.
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| Feb 21 2008 |
PETERT Elegant Simplicity. Launchbar is one of the few applications / utilities that sets out to do a task and does so with elegant simplicity. Nothing gets in your face, it just sits there awaiting your request and then does it, no fuss, no bother, and then gets out of the way. An absolute must have piece of software. No other in the field does its job as efficiently and with such elegant simplicity. A licensed user for > 5 years. And yes, I have tried ALL the others. None work as well for me. | |
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| Jan 18 2008 |
TOADLING I've used LaunchBar for a couple years now, taking a few breaks along the way to try out the competition. But I always come back to LaunchBar. Others may have even more features, but LaunchBar does nearly as much and with a much greater degree of elegance and simplicity. It's proven to be a rock-solid, reliable companion on my MacBook Pro. I love it.
(Version 4.3.4) | |
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| Dec 30 2007 |
SEVDESTRUCT I love Launchbar. I generally do not click on anything to get where I need to go in my system. I don't bother with the Dock stealing window space and doing it's fancy jig. As a designer, this program saves me a lot of money by cutting down a lot menial in-between time in a process that adds up to dollars. I got my whole studio to install it, and never do I need to fumble around wondering where photoshop is or illustrator or whatever else I need to launch on other users' machines. I just type PS or AI and bam, I'm off. 5 Stars. I use it like it's an integrated part of the system (add Launchbar to login items, and edit the .plist to remove it from the dock and cmd-tab icons)* and it's always there. So good. Fast, and intuitive. *There should be a note about how to do this on their site (LaunchBar) forum.
(Version 4.3.3) | |
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 | Jan 19 2008 |
TOMECK The easiest way to "undock" LaunchBar is Dock Doger (freeware); it also provides the feature to "dock" LaunchBar again, if needed.
(Version 4.3.4) | |
| Dec 19 2007 |
MOLBO Absolutely utterly and completely essential.
(Version 4.3.3) | |
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| Dec 1 2007 |
BRIAN KENDIG Now that Leopard's built-in Spotlight can find and launch applications, I tried doing without LaunchBar for a while. But I found that I just can't live without it - Spotlight has no idea that typing 'ff' means that it should launch Firefox, for example.
(Version 4.3.3) | |
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| Nov 24 2007 |
DONMONTALVO It doesn't get any better than this! Don Montalvo, NYC
(Version 4.3.3) | |
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| Nov 20 2007 |
DELTA FARCE This is THE launcher for Mac. Some people like QuickSilver better, but you don't have to futz around with setting up LaunchBar. It just works. Great default settings out of the box. Very cool if you set up a lot of Macs for people. Essential.
(Version 4.3.2) | |
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| Oct 15 2007 |
GEEPZ Fast, stable, essential. The best bet for old pros. And novices. Some of the new features feel like clutter, but it still works on 10.2.8, so I'll go back to being a productive and grateful customer. | |
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