23 Comments

• nick

  Apr 3, 2007
  6:55 am

  I have. No, it doesn’t.

  PS: Which is one of the reasons I use a Mac now. :)

• Mark Watson

  Apr 3, 2007
  12:32 pm

  I haven’t tried it on my PC, but I will. Personally I just use quicksilver ;-) with my Mac.

• Daryl

  Apr 3, 2007
  3:24 pm

  I’m actually an avid user of Quicksilver, but am looking at moving back to K/Ubuntu for mostly philosophical reasons (and the fact I have to start eating my won dog food).

  Besides, Katapult does anyone have any recos on similar apps for the Linux desktop ?

• Mikkel Malmberg Nielsen

  Apr 3, 2007
  4:28 pm

  Dartl: Deskbar for Gnome. It’s kinda like spotlight. But faster,

  Even if everything else sucked on a mac, I would still use one, just because of QS. Get a mac already!

• Chanpory

  Apr 3, 2007
  11:24 pm

  Thanks guy for the personal accounts. It’s not too much of a surprise that Colibri disappoints if you’ve seen Quicksilver in action. With the on-going development of Quicksilver, it seems more and more unlikely that a PC programmer will catch up.

• Andrea Nagar

  Apr 5, 2007
  1:49 am

  Have you checked Direct Access at http://www.nagarsoft.com ?

  It allows you to define abbreviations to launch your favorite applications and folders and expand text. It allows you to perform web queries (on almost site like Amazon, Imdb, Google, Wikipedia) from any application.

  The new version works with Windows Vista, supports macros and has an instant search feature.

• Leandro Ardissone

  Apr 17, 2007
  9:29 am

  I love Find and Run Robot, slim and extremely faster. Now waiting the version 2 that will include plugin support and new improvements like speed and path completion.

• Larry

  May 3, 2007
  7:26 pm

  Keybreeze has more features and is more configurable than all of those apps, and it’s free. http://www.keybreeze.com

• lmn

  Jun 2, 2007
  4:09 am

  None of these things are close to Quicksilver, Its not just an application launcher people!

• Logan

  Oct 14, 2007
  9:13 am

  Haven’t used it yet, but Dash looks pretty good. Haven’t used QS either mind you. http://www.trydash.com

• lllldom

  Oct 18, 2007
  9:45 pm

  while its not quite there yet, DOMercury is active, gets frequent updates, is free, and has more functionality than any of the above listed. It also allows for multiple and specific actions depending on teh selected item, as Quicksilver does, including items that can take parameters. The author is also very receptive to feedback on possible improvements. http://www.odierno.com/domercury I have it on my work machine: a Windows XP 64 bit system, and on my Vista Laptop at home, works fine and fast on both systems.

• Marc

  Mar 28, 2008
  4:56 am

  “gnome-do” for Linux works perfectly. It’s elegant, quick and has a lot of plugins (search in dictionaries, run applications, open documents, etc…) http://do.davebsd.com/

• Tao

  Mar 28, 2008
  7:58 am

  DOMercury Absolutely Rocks! It should definitely be added in the content of this article, it seems much better than the others (that I have tried) from above. As the above comment states, it’s slightly rough around the edges right now : – the program crashes after you install it, one of the settings files have invalid entries) – the default indexes could be improved, not as slick as QuickSilver

  All in all though, this is very close in spirit to QuickSilver, and catching up fast!

• Leonard Ritter

  Sep 23, 2008
  2:57 am

  Checked the sites and so far Launchy looks pretty sleek and does a good job. It is the only Windows app on the list that is open source, which is important for me (control freak), so think I found my match.

• Industrial

  Sep 24, 2008
  7:58 am

  Don’t you love it when blogs post about blogs that blogs blog and that their blog included more then what you are blogging about (“His list includes:”)?

  ITS RETARDED!

  google would have found me HIS blog instead of yours, but just because you are a company that puts effort (and money) into having better search results i get shown this. thanks a bunch. The internet is a better place with blogs posting about blogs (not).

• Gasha

  Nov 26, 2008
  4:33 am

  You should try SkyLight. I found it on AppRocket link. It’s close to Quicksilver

• Elijah

  Dec 28, 2008
  3:09 pm

  Gnome DO for Linux fit my need as a Quicksilver replacement.

  Very nice!

• rAX

  Mar 17, 2009
  12:56 pm

  Thanks, I tried what you suggested but I’m sticking with Launchy, it’s pretty good Gnome-DO on linux is pretty well too

• Alex

  Mar 17, 2009
  1:22 pm

  SuperLauncher should be mentioned. SuperLauncher launches applications with hotkeys or one click of the mouse but the twist about it is that you add new shortcuts by drag and drop. You simlpy drag and drop applications, websites, files, or folders, and wizards guide you through adding hotkeys or one-click shortcuts.

  I use it and I recommend it.

  You can find SuperLauncher here: http://www.pcwinsoft.com/superlauncher/download.asp http://www.pcwinsoft.com/superlauncher/

  Best, Alex

• sean avery

  Jun 24, 2009
  12:38 am

  press the windows key and type whatever ur looking for into the search thats built into the win7 and i think vista has it also

  fast and its already there whether u like it or not bitches

• Steve

  Jul 10, 2009
  3:13 am

  Sean: You are missing the point. People are not looking for mac-like ways to launch programs, they are trying to find a substitute for Quicksilver.. but why do I even assume that a troll can read?

  Go back to 4chan or get a life

• jaffar

  Sep 12, 2009
  12:26 am

  thanx, Colibri, is well programmed , does the job well,, I am linux user who got used to gnome-do, which is fantastic btw, and has alot of potential to fit into many customized actions but Colibri is good alternative as well,

• Emalghion

  Feb 24, 2010
  10:10 pm

  I’m a Quicksilver user and I have started to use Skylight and would say it is the closest to Quicksilver I’ve found for PC. Skylight’s Windows 7 compatibility is excellent as well. This program is by CandyLabs and has replaced AppRocket.