Namely2.5.1

Namely is always the first utility I install on any Mac. Its ease of use is simply incredible. It is designed for a single task and it acquits itself flawlessly. Brilliant, simply brilliant.

If you've tried Launchbar, Alfred, and Butler and found them cumbersome, this one's for you. Namely is lean, simple, quick, effective, and does its one trick very well. Keep it in your dock and add it to your startup items so it's always available (otherwise you'll find yourself wishing for a Meta-Namely to launch or switch to Namely). Works great for me in Yosemite...I don't understand the issue referred to below about localized program names.

Was a great program until Yosemite. Now it no longer works when the program names are localized. A pity.

Agree, stil the best, easiest, fastest, and most simple application launcher. Sets out to do one thing and does it perfectly. I pair it with Dockless so that it invisible.

I love this, simple, small, immediate. So pleased it still works after all these years and OS updates :).

Still my favourite launcher, especially once you discover the unique 2-3 letters for each app, very effortless to use. One refinement I'd like, though, is that when I use it to launch hidden/menubar apps, it doesn't fade itself afterwards. If there were some way to fix that, it'd be great (even though all that's needed is 2x Esc to clear it at the moment).

This app is the cat's meow. If only Apple could somehow incorporate it into Mac OS X...

My dock's getting full! A request to the developer: can you make Namely a pref pane, and lose the dock icon?

This little app is pure simplicity and works like a dream. No clutter, no fuss and no go slow, like some application launchers out there. Intuitive, and easy, the whole process becomes second nature very quickly.

This is the program that I have on all of my machines the program I use all day everyday. It works and it wirks very well. It is wonderful ti know that there are folks woriting programs with a real purpouse. I love the fact that it does one thing and it dose it very well with no extra bells and whist les. A very well thought out Application.

Why have two versions for Tiger and Leopard? It's not that hard to make code conditional depending on the version.

Namely is always the first utility I install on any Mac. Its ease of use is simply incredible. It is designed for a single task and it acquits itself flawlessly. Brilliant, simply brilliant.

I've been using Namely for a year and a half. For me, the lightweight functionality of Namely works better than the Swiss army knife-like features of Quicksilver. The new version for Leopard fixes the issues I had experienced with Namely. I still consider Namely a cornerstone of my Mac experience, replacing Spotlight almost entirely.

I'm pretty sure Leopard now does this natively.

Nice, very nice! Launches most apps by typing just two letters. The annoying dock icon can be eliminated with Dock Dodger or a simple edit of Info.plist. This has now become my preferred way to launch apps.

The developper's site seems down since many days now. Can't download the app, too bad, it seems promising....

Namely does what it says on the tin. It is very fast and compact. It does however have one problem: The learning algorithm is not sufficient. For example, after typing 'T' a few times and selecting Terminal, it would put Terminal at the top when I typed T. However, if I type 'TE' and select TextEdit a few times, it not will only put it at the top for 'TE', but also for 'T' (meaning Terminal is no longer at the top). Unlike Quicksilver which seems to use one ranking order per input string, Namely seems to use one ranking order for all input strings. This is fine if you're willing to satisfy it by typing until you get to a unique string of characters ('tex' for textedit, 'ter' for terminal), but otherwise you'll get unpredictable behaviour. Hopefully this will be addressed in a future version. For now, I'll stick with Quicksilver.

Thanks for your reply, but I edited the plist file like you said but it made the search bar window invisible, instead of the dock icon.

Great Application but i have Spotlight...

Really easy to use, doesn't need much resources, very good application launcher! And it doesn't get in the way when you don't need it, which is nice.

Simple, fast, great! Thanks!

Thanks I love Namely I tried using spotlight but on a 700 emac it is just absolutely to slow, with Namely the applications are there almost immediately.

Excellent. Easy to use, stylish and quick. Thanks!

I've been avoiding application launchers, preferring to use aliases, but Namely is elegant simplicity. Kudos to the developer.

Replaced Quicksilver for me. Does exactly what it's supposed to do, but faster than either QS or Butler.

great little app. I use butler (which is more full-featured) on my everyday user, but namely on my stripped-down music recording/performance user because it is faster and leaner and still gets the job done.

This is a simple but very useful app

This is a must have app! I love this thing. For me, it's faster than using Spotlight to bring up an app and I don't have to throw so many things in the Dock. This app is also next to nothing in size by today's standards. I hope it stays that way. One suggestion I have is to add in a feature where I could blacklist apps on the fly right from the list that comes up so I don't have to mess with going into the prefs. Keep up the good work!

Just download it, you will love it. I cant live without it.

very nice

This is a great program. It is simple, functional, fast, small, easy to use, free, and reliable. I highly recommend it.

I'm still using 10.2.8 so I found this to be very useful. Thank you for making it a free release!

This program is wonderful. It raised my productivity more than any other program. I recommend it. (just read the discription of the program, it's cut and dry, but it's works better than you'd think. WAY better. Just try it out!)

It's nice, but metal windows are evil, and when it's Aquafied it looks funky with those thick metal borders. How about an option to eliminate the window decorations completely, reducing it to a kind of pure zen floating input widget (use cmd-drag to move, opt-drag to resize)?

nice little app but i think it needs some work. if your running konfabulator then you should check out the SearchLite Widget. http://www.widgetgallery.com/index.php?search=SearchLite&x=5&y=14 Very similar functionality but also supports google searching and terminal commands. Also it appears via hotkey and looks soooo much better than a simple window, also, no dock icon :0) maybe the developer of this app should check it out to see how it should be done! ...also, would be better as stand alone app as supposed to konfab widget!

I use and like Namely. I've tried the other apps mentioned, but I prefer Namely for a few simple reasons: I want a keyboard means of launching apps in ADDITION to using the mouse/Dock/Finder. I already use iKey for many other automation purposes, so I just want a simple type-and-run app like Namely. As for its being on the Dock itself, I keep the Dock hidden and rarely use it, but I have done a simple tweak to its Info.plist file to remove it from the Dock, remove its menu, and keep it out of the command-tab app switching list. Some may argue about its speed compared to other apps, but it is plenty fast enough for me and it's free.

Great app! It does what it says it will do perfectly. You click the icon or use the hot-key and a window appears. You type some letters from the name of the app you want, and a list appears. Keep typing to narrow it down, or select one with the mouse. Voila. Very fast, very simple, very nice, very free.

I would rather recommend we all review the software, namely... well Namely. I'd review it but I'm already using a more advanced program I won't name, just to be different. :)

Curse the shortcomings of posting systems! The extra two lines I mention in the previous post should look like the following, if you replace these curly brackets with angle brackets, which the macupdate system kindly filtered away into the aether for me last time because it thought it was html tags... {key}NSUIElement{/key} {string}1{/string} {/dict} {/plist}

I love this app! Until yer man adds dock invisibility as an option, you can add it yourself by doing 'edit package contents' and then editing the Namely.app/contents/info.plist file by adding two lines to it so that the last four lines read: NSUIElement 1 then save the file, and then you'll need to drag the app into another folder and back again to clear some cache somewhere before this works... plus only do this if you've got some way of bringing Namely to the front, i.e. with iKey, becausae you've just made it a background app, so it doesn't appear in the 'running apps' list anymore. I now find this is the quickest way to launch apps - use iKey/whatever to call Namely to the front using option-n, then pretty much any app can be found uniquely using four characters max - seeing as you can include spaces, so e.g. Disk Utility is "k u"! Cool...

Namely is a wonderful and very handy bit of software. I felt sorry that another reviewer said it "wasted a slot in my dock"; perhaps he misses the point of the app. I have removed most of those apps from the Dock whose names I easily remember, and use Namely alone to open them in a matter of a few keystrokes. It makes my Dock smaller and less cluttered, as it now only contains items I use several times daily, like Mail, Safari, iCal, and so on. I added Namely to my Startup Items, and never quit it; this gives me on-demand fast performance. Thanks Amar, for a great app.

Great - now with substring matching! Still getting duplicates of some OSX apps like Safari, Preview, Internet Connect, but to be fair, that sometimes happens in FruitMenu's CMM too, so maybe it's an OSX listing bug?

The simplicity and good interface combined have made Namely a good application. Now, serving Jaguar. Thanks Amar.

Namely only does the Build Ne App List thing automatically the first time you run it - after that, it only does that if you tell it to, so it's very quick once it's been set up. Just to make clear what I wrote below - it lists app names starting with.. and also multiword app names where any word in the name starts with - e.g. PH finds Adobe Photoshop - but I've asked the developer to consider an option to do midword search so that FO brings up TextForge, for example (I can't always remember the whole name of an app - especially all those renamer apps I've tried out!)