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24 alternatives to Centerpiece – Your trusty omnibox search

Today we are happy to annouce the v1.0.0 release of centerpiece ! What began as a small personal project with the goal to remove all bars in my desktop environment has transformed into a full featured application launcher with a variety of plugins. A special shoutout to @a-kenji who pushed the development along a great deal. This is the first of my personal projects to reach the 1.0 milestone! Now, without further ado, enjoy this release and find us many bugs. -- @a-kenji & @friedow

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Centerpiece – Your trusty omnibox search launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    When I started my career and built my first design system, I was beyond excited. It took a lot of iterations, learning and 6 months of work to launch it internally. In the next job, I did it again, then at the following job, again… And no matter which company I worked for, 80% of the design system was the same. I’ve decided to work full-time on the design system I’ve always wanted, and today I’m launching and open-sourcing it. You can use it to build Next.js apps faster, and I’ve designed it in a way that it’s hard to go wrong with it: you can choose any settings, and you’ll end up with a…

    Dec 2025 · once-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    Desktop Neo, rethinking the desktop UI and Dribble Playbook

    2016 · layout.fm · its alternatives →

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    Stylepill▲253

    Get beautiful open source UI components weekly

    2017 · stylepill.carrd.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I'm a developer and first time i shipped the real product after observing the startups and indie hackers community for years. I had made so many useless apps [you should check my website https://ansh.life], but this time I built a very useful product that has a number of super easy-to-use tools in one app for video, music, and photo files. Users can compress, convert, resize, and do so much more with easy-to-use tools. Background: I developed a frame-by-frame video cropper to upload cropped landscape videos to Instagram Reels. However, it required FFmpeg, and as a noob video…

    2025 · pimosa.app · its alternatives →

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    Zazu▲193

    Open source launcher, an alternative to Alfred

    2017 · zazuapp.org · its alternatives →

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    UIUI▲180

    UI collection for developers

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    150+ pixel perfect iOS UI elements

    2016 · goodbarber.com · its alternatives →

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    Clutter free innovation driven todo-organizer for max focus😎

    2018 · momentum.earth · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’ve built a tool that dynamically adjusts the complexity of software interfaces based on a user's interaction with it. It works by hiding non-essential/advanced UI elements for new users, reducing cognitive load and guiding them to their "aha moment" more efficiently. We refer to this as „simple mode“. Non-essential features are progressively revealed when the user is ready to use them, and we’ve also added an option for users to manually switch „simple mode“ off. Every Feature in vykee consists of Elements. Elements can be selected via UI picker or via code by adding the…

    2024 · vykee.co · its alternatives →

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    I used to be just a blogger. Now I build internet products, still without code, using AI, design, and taste. I was building in public on X for last 2 months. And honestly, I got tired of how it became performative and started to feel fake. I shipped 2 products. Both failed to get any real traction. I kept sneaking into popular builders’ profiles, hoping to learn how they do it. One thing I kept seeing everywhere, product launch directories. I thought here is the scope. So I started building one. Same UI like the rest. Nothing special. Suddenly one day when it was half built, I realized…

    2025 · founderswall.com · its alternatives →

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    Join to Stylepill "early adopters" list!

    2017 · stylepill.carrd.co · its alternatives →

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    Brand new launcher which aims to break the norm

    2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Curated tools for your first side project

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Taskbar project launcher for developers

    2015 · kittylauncher.com · its alternatives →

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    Minimal AF Launcher for Android. Reduce your screen time. Daily wallpapers. - tanujnotes/Olauncher

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16AS

    http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/window.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/datatable.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/tabs.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/layout.html http://az.ht/ui/build/curr/accordion.html Github: https://github.com/elgs/azui I have been working on these web ui components in the past few months. Now they seem to start working. I was not a front end developer. The reason I was determined to write these components is…

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Nice Update to the most popular Android Launcher!

    2014 · twitter.com · its alternatives →

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    CSS for components

    2017 · stylable.io · its alternatives →

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    Near perfect free UI kits

    2016 · freebies.lorenzobocchi.com · its alternatives →

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    Highly customizable home screen replacement for Android

    2017 · novalauncher.com · its alternatives →

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    Мы - Лончер! Объединяем крупнейших производителей Smart TV и ТВ-приставок, предоставляя новые, технологичные и эффективные рекламные продукты

    2022 · launcher.team · its alternatives →

  22. 22OT

    I started this as a weekend project and posted it on HN 5 years ago. 300,000 users later, I just released v4 today. Octotree [1] gives GitHub a sidebar that improves file navigation and code/pull request review. Works on Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari. Any comment or feedback is appreciated. [1]: https://www.octotree.io/

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Hey devs :) With 15+ years of UI kit building & design systems, my team is launching a platform that allows developers to build consistent & fully functional UI kits / web projects in days, instead of months. Giving you best practices with the most advanced system design/system design for reusing UI components, combined with access to 500+ open-source components that you can build anything with. Yes it’s open source tech with no vendor lock. Which means you can export any part of your UI kit / project at anytime. Our goal isn’t to enhance your tech stack, not to lock you in.…

    2024 · symbols-beta.framer.website · its alternatives →

  24. 24MA

    Just got the first open testing release approved on google play store for a minimal android launcher i'm developing. I recently switched to a phone with an e-ink display and was missing features in current minimal launchers, so i decided to make my own. Would love to hear your opinion, improvements that could be made or features to change/add. Thanks! === Links === - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kolktech.mnml - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gcF9lSDBPY (video demo) === Current Features === - Multiple rows of apps - Material…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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