Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ulauncher
An application launcher for Linux 🐧
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ulauncher launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hi HN! I’ve always been a fan of application launchers, and I was impressed by the approach the Raycast team took — especially their extension system. About six months ago I started building something similar for Linux, aiming to integrate deeply at the OS level and give extensions a lot of power. Vicinae is written in C++ with Qt Widgets. I chose Widgets over QML for more imperative control of the UI, especially around extension handling. So far that’s worked well — modern C++ is great. To support my goals I built a number of custom widgets, including a fully virtualized list that can…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm a huge fan of Raycast, but as a Linux user, I was always disappointed it wasn't available on my main OS. This summer, I decided to just build it myself. This project has the goal of being interoperable with Raycast itself, including a majority of the extensions. It's built with Tauri and Rust on the backend, with a Svelte frontend. The biggest challenge was getting it to run existing Raycast extensions, which required building a custom React renderer as well as making a custom API. I also wrote a quick post, which I hope to expand on in the future, about this project. You can…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Naarchy▲69A little island for everything on your Linux desktop
16d ago · michaelchurley.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 →
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Application launcher for Linux. Contribute to lchsk/xstarter development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Coati▲63A cross-platform source explorer for C/C++ & Java
2016 · thaicockfight.com · its alternatives →
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Icebergs▲81Linux in the browser (Full, fast, root access via HTML5)
2015 · icebergs.io · its alternatives →
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Yahoo Aviate▲79An intelligent Android launcher from Yahoo
2014 · downloads.yahoo.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Minimalistic and open source launcher app for Android
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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The No Compromises Minimalist Launcher
May 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Taskbar project launcher for developers
2015 · kittylauncher.com · its alternatives →
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Super fast Android launcher with smart predictions
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A free modern console-style Android launcher
Feb 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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It's free and open source. The aim is to have more transparent access to wine prefixes and the surrounding tooling (winetricks, proton configuration, etc...) per game in comparison to Lutris. Same features like statistics (time played, times launched, times crashed, and so on) per game is available in the app.
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS
2016 · elementary.io · its alternatives →
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