![]() However, Alfred does allow a similar level of customizability for workflow abbreviations, even if they do all have to be set manually. Customizability – There’s no question that LaunchBar’s ability to learn users’ abbreviations and let them assign their own for anything in its catalog is a huge point in its favor.This is easily one of Alfred’s biggest advantages, perhaps its biggest. Workflows – LaunchBar’s action editor may or may not be superior when putting together your own custom actions (I actually didn’t know about it either until Tom pointed it out here, so I have no personal experience to speak on) but there’s no denying that, for whatever reason, the Alfred community has come up with vastly more workflows for non-coders like myself to choose from.Some more differences between Alfred and LaunchBar, and why I continue to use both, in no particular order: Indeed I’m considering to use Alfred as a “Low Energy” Replacement of LaunchBar on my future KabyLake MacBook Proīut, I think, by tweaking LB’s index appropriately, I can obtain the same (energy-efficient) results, without having to resort to Alfred. So, strictly unnecessary to say it, there is no reason to ever use Alfred instead of LB, except when you are low on resources (CPU, RAM). ![]() On top of that you don’t even have to assign the abbreviation explicitly, since LB is learning that from your use. In LaunchBar you can assign abbreviations like LMS to launch a script called Launch My Script. That‘s a pretty limited name space, since most of the combinations are already occupied. In Alfred you can assign hotkeys the usual way, i.e Modifier+Key. (That’s also the reason that Alfred doesn’t consume any RAM or CPU resources, as opposed to LaunchBar.) There are two (not more) crucial differences between LaunchBar and Alfred:Īlfred is entirely relying on the Spotlight index. I have been testing out Launchbar again and do see its pros. I suppose my real question is about the range of possibilities in both app, but I misworded my original question. I realize that I sort of changed the topic, and you definitely did answer my first question before. (Alfred, on the other hand, it uses the Spotlight index + some Caches => Many People complaining about the “sluggishness” of LB, but they don’t even realize that LB is working based on its own index) Keep in mind that Alfred is “substantially” a different thing: LB maintains its own Index, it works with that Index +Spotlight. With some points in favor of LB, and some points not in favor of Alfred. You have asked for ease of customization.Īnd I tried to answer this in the first posts. If you write an excellent script (“workflow’) for Alfred, and I write a mediocre script for LaunchBar (“Action”) you win.īut that’s not the point. OK, it’s always a question how you write your scripts. ![]() I don’t have too much experience with the latest version of Alfred. Please correct me if I’m wrong with something. This has to do with the way how the index works: LB relies (mainly) on its own index, while Alfred is dependent on Spotlight. I find, with LB you have more flexibility to customize the index, i.e. (As a sidenote: these Abbreviations can be assigned manually, or you just let LB learn them by using.) This way you have way more available combinations in LB. These don’t require modifier keys, an Abbreviation can be for example “ABC”.
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