Compare software
Compare Whisker Menu with alternatives
Whisker Menu vs Slingshot
Slingshot is the type-to-search application menu built into elementary OS's Pantheon panel, and it is not meant for other desktops such as Xfce.- Whisker Menu vs jgmenujgmenu is a customizable X11 application menu that works across Openbox, i3 and other window managers instead of being tied to the Xfce panel.
- Whisker Menu vs ArcMenuArcMenu provides a customizable, searchable application menu for GNOME Shell rather than the Xfce panel, open source under GPL-2.0-or-later.
- Whisker Menu vs nwg-drawer
nwg-drawer swaps the menu for a searchable full-screen app grid on sway, Hyprland and other wlroots compositors, and launches applications only. - Whisker Menu vs KRunnerKRunner is a keyboard launcher built into KDE Plasma that starts apps, finds files and runs commands through plugins, instead of a panel menu.
- Whisker Menu vs nwg-menunwg-menu brings a start-menu style application menu to sway and wlroots Wayland desktops, used with nwg-panel or standalone and styled through CSS.