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A free version covers file search and app launching. Listary Pro is a paid upgrade with additional features, and the related Gety full-text search product is sold separately.

• Results ordered by your habits, with fuzzy matching that usually lands first try
• Works inside Save As and Open dialogs in other applications, which is genuinely rare
• Searches the whole drive instantly once indexed
• Launches apps, runs web searches and executes commands from the same box

• Uses the Everything index, so file search is instant on a big drive
• One box for apps, files, bookmarks, web searches and calculations
• Large community plugin library with an in-app plugin store
• Installer and portable build, plus winget, Scoop and Chocolatey

• Windows only
• Closed source
• Some features are held back for the paid Pro version
• Full-text search inside documents is a separate paid product

• Windows only
• Binaries are unsigned, so Windows raises a security prompt on first run
• Plugin quality varies and a bad one can slow the whole launcher
• The project warns about lookalike domains, so download from the official site

• listary.com

• flowlauncher.com
• github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher