guxin7005 / Wox

An effective launcher for Windows. an alternative to Alfred or Launchy.

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Wox is a launcher for Windows, an alternative to Alfred and Launchy. You can launch everything with just a few keystrokes!

Demo

Features

1. Search all applications, folders, files, bookmarks.
2. Search Web using keyword (e.g. search google with g search_term)
3. Build custom themes in http://www.getwox.com/theme/builder
4. Install plugins from http://www.getwox.com/plugin
5. Use pinyin to search programs / 支持用 拼音 搜索程序 e.g. yyy / wangyiyun -> 网易云音乐

Installation

1. Download
2. Latest stable version: release page.
3. Latest build: English guide, 中文说明
4. Unzip it and put it into your user directory (C:\Users\YOUUSERNAME or %userprofile%)
5. Windows 10 user, please have a look at Wox-launcher#279

Simple Usage

• Launch: Alt+Space
• Install/Uninstall plugin: type wpm install/uninstall

Contribute

If you are a developer, please feel free to send a pull request to the Dev branch. We still have a lot of features and bugs to resolve. Take a look at issues page, especially for help_needed labeled issue. :)

If you are not a developer, please install the Latest build and report bugs (how to: English 中文). Feedback is always welcome!

Docs

Full documentation can be found here Wox doc. This is a good place to start if you are installing Wox for the first time.

In the future, all of the documentation will be moved back to Github wiki.

Development / Author Status

1. unified directory %APPDATA% for all storage
2. bring unitest for wox back
3. add autoupdate
4. disable plugin properly