The transparent nature of the drop down menu makes the colors of the icons washed out and hard to recognize. Pain, just want to disable all shortcuts with a preference. This app forces users to disable each shortcut every time a new app is added. I use apps that have vast amounts of shortcuts and I do not want this app interfereing with those shortcuts. Also there is no preference window and user cannot easily disable shortcuts. Also has a lot of "promotional" menu items that clutters up the experience (rate, recommend, more apps.). This is unfortunate as I desired (thought I was paying for) the ability to have the apps centered in the menu bar. I’m hoping that the devs are working on updating LaunchBar instead of just bug fixes, but I’m not optomistic.Pictured in app store with icons in center of manubar, but this is not what the app does, icons are right justified as usualy in the menua bar. In Alfred, but I’ve still managed to the same thing in LaunchBar (admittedly with more work). I like how easy it is to create custom Spotlight searches/filters for specific file, file types etc. Alfred’s look pretty ugly versus LaunchBar’s more macOS look and feel. I don’t like the look and icon style versus LaunchBar. does make LaunchBar start to feel that it’s only being maintained versus developed.īecause of this I’ve started to try Alfred again, but it soon became clear why I like LaunchBar so much. I agree that Alfred seems to be more actively developed though, and the forum, shared workflows etc. The ability to select a file or a few files, invoke instant send, and then copy or move them to other folders depending on which modifier key you’re holding down (Option to Copy, Command to Move etc.) is something I can’t do without, and ties in with macOS. I also use it for for file navigation and find it better than Alfred. It looks and feels like more native to macOS to me than Alfred. Want an easy way to switch from Dark Mode to Light Mode? There’s a LaunchBar action for that. I made life easier by creating two simple AppleScripts (saved as applications) to mount and unmount the shares that I normally access, and just launch the scripts from LaunchBar. I’d go to Finder, Press command-K, connect to the server, select the shares, and then have to close a half dozen finder tabs that opened once the volumes mounted. It used to be a pain to connect and disconnect. I connect to some network volumes at home. I use it dozens of times throughout the day. Voila! Your browser gets the focus, and your search is executed. After all, how hard is it to press command-L and type a search in Safari? But if you have multiple monitors and your browser is lost or buried on one, you invoke LaunchBar, type the shortcut, press enter, enter your query, and press return. For example, I have created search queries to search all my most used websites directly from LaunchBar. LaunchBar makes doing so many things easy and w/o having to take your fingers off the keyboard. I’m in the diehard LaunchBar camp, and Instant Send is one of my favorite super powers. But, overall Alfred is a much better fit for me, for now at least. There are a few things I miss from LaunchBar, most notably the Instant Send feature. There’s also an extensive library of Workflows to draw from, including ones from Alfred and ones from users. Workflows open up all kinds of possibilities and are generally very straight forward to implement.While I can understand the power user value of the timed typing, it never really stuck for me.While the LaunchBar team has maintained macOS compatibility over the years, Alfred appears to be in more active development.In fact, there still isn’t any documentation specific to LaunchBar 6, even though it released in 2014. Alfred’s documentation is much better.There are ways to sync LaunchBar settings, but they’re clunky and not officially supported. Being able to sync between the two is very helpful. I have two Macs (and iMac and a MacBook Pro).I recently switched to Alfred after using LaunchBar for many years.
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