The best thing to do, obviously, is try Alfred myself and decide (and perhaps I will). Many users suspect that Raycast will become a freemium product to return the investment, and there will be some subscription model. Its community is older, with more extensions/workflows, etc. So it does seem that the audience is somewhat preferring Alfred because of three main reasons: I was hoping at least to find a serious speed comparison, especially since it seems that many claim Alfred's superiorities on this aspect. It takes the guesswork out of Spotlight searches and helps you find file hidden deep in the haystack of files accumulated over the years. HoudahSpot is a powerful file search tool. Still, there isn't any clear-cut answer, and I haven't managed to come across too much information from the last months (Raycast is relatively a new player in this market). LaunchBar is a popular application launcher, clipboard manager, and much more. While reading about the subject, I discovered other similar tools: Alfred, LaunchBar, Command E, and others.Īs part of this obsession, I tried to figure out which tool is ideal for my use case (it mainly came to Alfred vs. My use case is mainly PDFs and working with files, reading, writing - overall on the relatively simple-use end of the spectrum (I rarely use GitHub and other development tools, but I might become more engaged in the future).Īmazed by how much a tool can change my workflow, I decided to dig further into other tools and got sucked obsessively into the productivity world. I don't work in the tech industry, but I spend most of my day in front of the computer, and here and there, I do some coding (sometimes as a hobby and occasionally work-related). A couple of weeks ago, I discovered Raycast, and without exaggerating - it changed my life. LaunchBar, QuickSilver, and Alfred Third-party developers have certainly filled in Spotlight's gaps over the years, and when Apple showed off the new features of Spotlight, some users of Running With Crayons' Alfred noticed some similarities right away, such as quick Web searches, map searches and more.
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