IGREG  Clean and simple launcher. Works fine for me in Leopard and Snow Leopard.

I do have and use PathFinder and it has a similar launcher as an option, HOWEVER, its global menu icons and text are too small and can NOT be changed like other parts of PathFinder.

Alunch works fine, although I do think aLunch is a strange name. Why not call it aLaunch or iLaunch?  
(Version 3.6.5)

TFINDLAY  aLaunch is easy to set up and use. I rely on heavily and it has never let me down. With over 200 applications and counting scrolling through my Applications folder is a bit overwhelming. aLaunch allows me to group applications that I commonly use into manageable categories making it easy to access them quickly. Highly recommended.  
(Version 3.6.5)

STEVEN GOODHEART  I use aLunch dozens of times a day. What an amazingly powerful and versatile program -- for free!The only thing I may use more often during the day is A-Dock, which I also highly recommend.

Thank you, developer, for this amazing gift to Mac users!  
(Version 3.6.5)

MAHIR DEMIR  I'm a new mac user, so I've been looking for a nice application launcher. Tried Quicksilver but typing everytime I want to start an aplication is not my thing. Liked Overflow but 15 buck's for such a simple application, it just woudn't do for me. So I started looking, and stumbled on this little application, and for now, I'M LOVING IT. Nice work guys!  
(Version 3.6.4)

CLAYTON WALKER  Wonderful little application, this one turned out to be, I'm loving it.

It's fast, simple, easy to use, and no drawbacks whatsoever.

Some people I talk to recommended that I cut down on my time used up by launching everything either from the dock or from the Applications folder, and once I tried this, I fell in love with it. I recommend this one above all else. Nicely done, Dev.  
(Version 3.6.4)

DOOBIEXX  Finally! I have been waiting ages for this app to get it very very right. Very customizable, most and easiest for simple app launchers imo. Please keep up the great work guys and I am definitely donating! Appreciate the donation-ware perspective! Thanks again.  
(Version 3.6.4)

TESLANAUT  Could you make it so that the Active Apps show show up in the Launcher Window also? And make the Launcher themeable? This way I could completely replace my dock! :D  
(Version 3.6.2)

TESLANAUT  I've used this program mainly for the Fast Launcher, I just love it.

It would be really nice if I could toggle it with a mouse click or a combination of Keys such as Command + Backspace. Which is strangely what my Mouse does for it's 4th button.  
(Version 3.6.1)

DRAGONCE  Simple - useful - clean - free.  
(Version 3.6.1)

NOTAFOOL  I love this application and find it incredibly useful. I simply can't do without it. But there is one drawback, which has already been mentioned here by another user, and that is that one is required to do all of one's listing tasks in the very small "Preferences" window - the size or shape of which cannot be changed in any manner at all. If one is seeking to list a LOT of one's favourite applications into aLunch it can take far longer than it really should to do so - largely because one can see so little in the window. Why it wasn't made with the usual resize--handle, is mystery. Mr Developer, if you could attend to that, it would become a truly excellent and useful application in ALL respect @.   
(Version 3.6)

SEMIOTICMONKEY  I don't know what is wrong with this application on my system. Until now i was unable to test it cause it keep crashing on startup after the first configuration.

Downloaded the updated version to see what changed. Nothing. Crash on startup after the first config.

Oh well! I use Quicksilver all the time anyway...

Leopard 10.5.2  
(Version 3.4.1)

DANKEY  This application rocks!

Thank you for keeping free.

Note: I just would like to be able to resize the preferences window.  
(Version 3.4)

MACERICG  Great little app.

Any way you can provide the option of having the menu on the left, so it is like the old OS 9 customizable Apple Menu?  
(Version 3.2.1)

MAC-DEVIL  I love this App.

Keep it freee!!! :-)  
(Version 2.6.1)

TESLANAUT  I must say. I've used Himmel Bar before, but it wasn't as customizable as this was.

So easy to use and never crashed on me Once.

I'm using this on the new Aluminum iMac with Mac OS X 10.5.1.

It has never failed one me ever.

There really isn't anything I want to change about this.

Keep up the work. Keep it Free.   
(Version 2.6)

JOHNNYROCKIT  For some reason aLunch 2.5.1 download from MacUpdate site crashes on launch with O SX 10.3.9 but doesn't crash downloaded from here > http://mactips-lib.net/m/software/alunch/en/main.html ... also after installing from the link , in the aLunch preferences when you click on the 'check for updates' button the software update window pops open and says "A new version is available!" "aLunch 2.5.1 is now available (you have 2.5.1 for mac OS X 10.3.9) Would you like to download it now?" If you click on 'install update', it will install the version that crashes. The link mentioned above is also includes in the aLunch preferences Software update window but I got 'error 404 not found'. The link must be broken because when I copy and pasted it to the browser I got there without a problem.  
(Version 2.5.1)

NUSENTINSAINO  HimmelBar is better.  
(Version 2.5.1)

JOHNNYROCKIT  oops....... 2.5.1 crashes upon launch w/OS 10.3.9  
(Version 2.5.1)

JOHNNYROCKIT  2.4 crashes upon launch w/OS 10.3.9  
(Version 2.5.1)

JOHNNYROCKIT  2.4 crashes upon launch w/OS 10.3.9  
(Version 2.4)

PETER DA SILVA  It still doesn't display a directory's contents, which even the Dock will do (as the message below this one notes... and right-click works as well as left-click-and-hold and is faster to boot).

Another command further down says: "if you have oh say, over 150 applications, you do not have to scroll up and down a huge drop-down menu to get to your chosen file, you just arrange your categories/folders in alunch in the most efficient way desired"

I've already done that *on the disk*.

All I want is for aLunch to show me the same hierarchy in the menu, automatically. Let me make a folder the root of a menu tree, with an "open folder" item at the top or bottom. Without that this is less useful than the Dock, and that's pretty sad.  
(Version 2.3)

808ARMADA  Did you know that if you left click and hold on your Applications folder in your dock it will show a list of all your applications in your folder? Just thought you guys might find that helpful instead of another app that may conflict with Intel native. Just FYI.  
(Version 2.3)

MACERICG  I agree with SPLUNK23 -- This is THE BEST menu launcher around -- and I've been trying them all since my Dock became overcrowded with dozens of microscopic icons. (Was hoping Apple would address this better in Leopard. Oh well.)

I now keep my Dock empty and let it fill with apps once they are launched from the aLunch menu.

One request: In the Preference > Item Selection configuration -- would it be possible to support drag & drop in addition to the +/- assignments?  
(Version 2.2.1)

SPLUNK23  i have been using alunch on a computer at work for a while (the computer had stuffit expander, so i was able to extract alunch from the sitx archive). it really is the best menubar launcher for os x, really. you can launch any type of file on your system and have full control over the categorization of the files/applications you decide to place in the menu bar. meaning, if you have oh say, over 150 applications, you do not have to scroll up and down a huge drop-down menu to get to your chosen file, you just arrange your categories/folders in alunch in the most efficient way desired. the only thing that stops me [and a whole lot of others] from using it on there machines at home, is that alunch is distributed as a .sitx archive. most people stopped using stuffit products a long time ago, for good reason (they are bloated pieces of shareware rubbish) and there is no way on earth most people are going to install an extra compression/ decompression utility solely for the purpose of unzipping one application. if the author changed from sitx to zip, bz2 or just a plain dmg, i am certain there would be a much larger and more satisfied user base. until then i will have to stick with himmelbar on my mac at home. i am just letting the developer know that this is a fantastic piece of software, but he is really limiting his potential user-base by sticking to the sitx format. otherwise, from the amount of time i have spent using it at work, i can say this is simply the best menubar launcher out there. please, change to a different compression format.  
(Version 2.2.1)

MACERICG  Great little app. My thanks to the developer.

And to those who complain that the program is in a .sitx format or that it takes too long to configure -- quit your whining! -- It's free and it works.  
(Version 2.2.1)

PETER DA SILVA  I wanted to like this.

But... having to add a separate entry for EVERY application you need to launch makes this actually *less* useful than a folder in the dock, and takes more work to configure. It should be possible (for example) to get a submenu containing all Apple applications by adding "/Applications" as a folder. The first or last entry of that submenu could, perhaps, be one to open that folder in Finder if you want that functionality as well.  
(Version 2.2.1)

TOMIS  While I prefer just using a folder in the dock to perform this functionality, this looked like a nice alternative.

Unfortunately the developer choose to go the odd route of SITX compressing a DMG. Perhaps he is not aware that Apple ceased bundling Stuffit Expander with MacOS X years ago. I am glad to be rid of it. Hopefully he will release his next version in a standard MacOS X archive format (compressed DMG, or ZIP).  
(Version 2.2.1)

HYS.  Is there a person of other same symptoms though there is a person whom the file doesn't open?  
(Version 2.2)

HYS.  It is "aLunch" accurately. though the name is aLaunchIt wishes the corrected thing.  
(Version 2.1)

PETER DA SILVA  Needs the ability to have the name of the folder different from the neame shown in the menu. For example, my mac is set up for shared use so I have three application folders named "Applications": /Applications, /Local/Applications, and ~/Applications, which I want to show up as "System", "Local", and "Personal".  
(Version 2.1)

SPRINGHEELMAC  'Himmelbar' is similar.  
(Version 2.1)