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.

Version 3.6.2:

• Ensure that default double tap based hotkeys are correctly deregistered when clearing the hotkey field in Alfred's preferences
• When processing text placeholders, evaluate the clipboard placeholder to an empty string if there is no suitable plain text entry in the current clipboard
• Improve Alfred startup efficiency, specifically workflow snippet trigger initial caching
• When deleting workflows and snippets (also snippet collections), these are now moved to the Trash instead of removed
• Fix Large Type preferences to correctly show for non-Powerpack users (regression when moving them from Appearance to Features)
• Prevent file filter from holding on to macOS metadata query exclusivity if the query keyword is edited within Alfred to match a different file filter
• Add troubleshooting button to Powerpack activation error sheet
• Fix specific floating point precision rounding issue in calculator
• Recognise longer TLDs when typing in a URL to open
• Increase workflow import sheet to allow for help subtext to properly fit
• Improve help subtext for various features in Alfred's preferences
• Add official support for 1Password 7
• Add "Tap to confirm" option in Alfred Remote for running workflows, similar to system commands
• Fix Filter workflow object to treat arrays as strings when processing, instead of just halting if an array (e.g. of files from hotkey selection) is passed in
• Initial set of tweaks for macOS 10.14

I owned a previous version of LaunchBar but uninstalled it because it started slowing down, and I'd periodically hit some key or spacebar at the wrong time and it would do something contextually within the app that I was not expecting, and it got annoying.

Earlier this year I read a review over at The Sweet Setup which called Alfred the best Mac app launcher. In it the reviewer specifically noted the confusing contextual commands in Launchbar. Okay, so Alfred has a free version, let me try it.

Love.

When searching for files it's faster than Spotlight! Now, when I want to launch an app or look for a file I use Alfred. (And when I need to search inside files or do sophisticated searches I use HoudahSpot.)

I've used Alfred now for around three months. I haven't upgraded yet but I'm pretty sure I will soon, if only for its 1Password integration.

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