LaunchBar
The original keyboard launcher, still subscription-free after all these years
About LaunchBar
LaunchBar was doing keyboard-driven everything before most launcher fans were born, and it still holds up. Deep file indexing, clipboard history, calculator, instant send — all a few keystrokes away.
Against Raycast it feels old-fashioned, but that is partly the appeal: no account, no cloud, no subscription, no extension store phoning home. It just indexes your Mac and gets out of the way.
A license is $29 one-time, with a free feature-limited mode if you want to try living with it first.
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