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Dev tools · January 3, 2017

Zazu

Open source launcher, an alternative to Alfred

Zazu launched on January 3, 2017 with 193 votes, #152 of 3,671 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

Zazu is a new open source productivity app, that allows developers to be in the drivers seat. Unlike other solutions, there are no built in integrations, so every plugin has the full scope of what Zazu has to offer.

A fully extensible and open source launcher for hackers, creators and dabblers. It comes with sane defaults to make it useful out of the box. But everything can be changed to fit your needs. Don't let others tell you the best way to be productive, configure it to be perfect for you. If you are just getting started, check out the Getting Started guide. Accepts some common equations for you to copy to your clipboard. Remembers things so you don't have to! Fuzzy search and browser all the things you've copied. Zazu is completely open, so build your plugins. You can get started building your plugin then head over and submit it to the pluginsfrom zazuapp.org

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