Alfred4.0.9

Name: Alfred
Rating: 4.625 (136 reviews)

21 March 2020

Quick launcher for apps and more.

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Overview

Alfred is an award-winning productivity application for OS X. Alfred saves you time when you search for files online or on your Mac. Be more productive with hotkeys, keywords, and file actions at your fingertips.

Loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness - free for you to download and use with no strings attached. Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for your Mac. Get it and see for yourself.

Get the Powerpack. Discover the Powerpack, a set of incredibly powerful features, built on top of the robust core of Alfred and integrated with OS X.

Single license: 19 pounds (GBP) for single user
Family license: 29 pounds (GBP) for 5 users under one roof
Mega Supporter: 35 pounds (GBP) Single User with Free Lifetime Upgrades

Note: This application contains in-app and/or external module purchases.

What's new in Alfred

Version 4.0.9:

macOS Catalina improvements

Add potential workarounds to Catalina screen coordinates bug making Alfred's window appear temporarily outside of the visible viewport when connecting a second display
Correctly locate Desktop backgrounds to display in Alfred's theme editor on Catalina
Update Workflow templates sub-menu from iTunes to Music.app on Catalina

Update build environment to Xcode 11
Add in Workflow list filter option to only show disabled Workflows
Fix event threading issues in Snippet Manager which can cause unwanted Alfred behaviour with Snippet Expansion enabled when using fn+arrow keys
Fix edit Snippet and Snippet Collection edit sheets to correctly show if Alfred's preferences window doesn't have focus when selecting the context menu item

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Slight improvement over Spotlight. Has a powerful automation system, but it's too confusing to learn how to use, and there's no place to share your scripts with other people. Keeps releasing new major versions to make the expensive powerpack upgrade obsolete.

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As all too ofetn recently on MacUpdate, today's update to v 4.0.7 leads to a wrongly labelled v 4.0.6 download ("Alfred_4.0.6_1124_4.0.7.dmg"), while the real 4.0.7 is available from Running With Crayons' own page - Get your act together MacUpdate!!!

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I use it alongside LaunchBar just to have a couple of features that works better for me. I prefer LaunchBar, but Alfred is the close second to me. Extremely versatile and useful in many ways. I would use it as my primary tool if LaunchBar goes belly up. For that, I already bought a Power Pack license.

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Alfred is not just another Quick launcher, it does that but so much more. It is your Mac executive assistant. If you only choose one utility, this is it.

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There's an area in which I definitely find Alfred easier than LaunchBar, it's the Web Search (that LaunchBar calls Search Template). With a single move you define the search query AND the shortcut, while with LaunchBar, you have to switch to another app, call LaunchBar, search for your Search Template, right-clic to assign the shortcut... Until now, I've run both apps in parallel, despite an attempt to switch totally to LaunchBar a few years ago... Now I'm thinking the other way around. I still have to figure how to do a few other things in Alfred, as I've just made up my mind right now, but I'm pretty confident. :-)

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All I can say is that this is the most impressive search tool I have ever used. With this tool I can find anything I want using any search engine. Just type in what I am looking for and choose the search engine and Alfred is up and running to help you. Simple to use. A very smart app.

Alfred4.0.9

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