codecopy / flow.launcher

:mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins

Dedicated to making your workflow flow more seamless. Search everything from applications, files, bookmarks, YouTube, Twitter and more. Flow will continue to evolve, designed to be open and built with the community at heart.

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🎉 New Features in 1.9

• All New Design. New Themes, New Setting Window. Animation & Sound Effect, Color Scheme aka Dark Mode.
• New Plugins, Plugin Store, Game Mode, Wizard window
• Full changelog

Getting Started • Features • Plugins • Hotkeys • Questions/Suggestions • Development • Docs

🚗 Getting Started

Installation

Windows 7+ installer	Portable

winget install "Flow Launcher"	scoop install Flow-Launcher	choco install Flow-Launcher

When installing for the first time Windows may raise an issue about security due to code not being signed, if you downloaded from this repo then you are good to continue the set up.

And you can download early access version.

🎁 Features

Applications & Files

• Search for apps, files or file contents.

• Support search using environment variable paths.

Web Searches & URLs

Browser Bookmarks

System Commands

• Provides system related commands. shutdown, lock, settings, etc.
• System command list

Calculator

• Do mathematical calculations and copy the result to clipboard.

Shell Command

• Run batch and PowerShell commands as Administrator or a different user.
• Ctrl+Enter to Run as Administrator.

Explorer

• Save file or folder locations for quick access.

Windows & Control Panel Settings

• Search for Windows & Control Panel settings.

Priority

• Prioritise the order of each plugin's results.

Customizations

• Window size adjustment, animation, and sound
• Color Scheme (aka Dark Mode)

• There are various themes and you also can make your own.

💬 Language

• Supports languages from Chinese to Italian and more.
• Supports Pinyin search.
• Crowdin support for language translations.

Portable

• Fully portable.
• Type flow user data to open your saved user settings folder. They are located at:
  • If using roaming: %APPDATA%\FlowLauncher
  • If using portable, by default: %localappdata%\FlowLauncher\app-<VersionOfYourFlowLauncher>\UserData
  • Type open log location to open your logs folder, they are saved along with your user settings folder.

🎮 Game Mode

• Pause hotkey activation when you are playing games.

📦 Plugins

• Support wide range of plugins. Visit here for our plugin portfolio.
• Publish your own plugin to flow! Create plugins in:

Everything

SpotifyPremium

Steam Search

Clipboard History

Home Assistant Commander

Colors

Github

Window Walker

......and more!

🛒 Plugin Store

• You can view the full plugin list or quickly install a plugin via the Plugin Store menu inside Settings

• or type pm install/uninstall/update + the plugin name in the search window,

⌨️ Hotkeys

Hotkey	Description
Alt+ Space	Open search window (default and configurable)
Enter	Execute
Ctrl+Shift+Enter	Run commands from Shell plugin as admin
↑↓	Scroll up & down
←→	Back to result / Open Context Menu
Ctrl +O , Shift +Enter	Open Context Menu
Tab	Autocomplete
Esc	Back to results / hide search window
Ctrl +C	Copy the actual folder / file
Ctrl +I	Open Settings window
F5	Reload all plugin data
Ctrl + H	Open search history
Ctrl + Backspace	Back to previous directory

System Command List

Command	Description
Shutdown	Shutdown computer
Restart	Restart computer
Restart with advance	Restart the computer with Advanced Boot option for safe and debugging modes
Log off	Log off
Lock	Lock computer
Sleep	Put computer to sleep
Hibernate	Hibernate computer
Empty Recycle Bin	Empty recycle bin
Exit	Close Flow Launcher
Save Settings	Save all Flow Launcher settings
Restart Flow Launcher	Restart Flow Launcher
Settings	Tweak this app
Reload Plugin Data	Refreshes plugin data with new content
Check For Update	Check for new Flow Launcher update
Open Log Location	Open Flow Launcher's log location
Flow Launcher Tip	Visit Flow Launcher's documentation for more help and how to use tips
Flow Launcher UserData	Open the location where Flow Launcher's settings are stored

💁‍♂️ Tips

• More tips

❔ Questions/Suggestions

Yes please, let us know in the Q&A section. Join our community on Discord!

Development

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome, in addition to the main project(C#) there are also documentation(md), website(html/css) and others that can be contributed to. If you are unsure of a change you want to make, let us know in the Discussions, otherwise feel free to put in a pull request.

You will find the main goals of flow placed under the Projects board, so feel free to contribute on that. If you would like to make small incremental changes, feel free to do so as well.

Get in touch if you like to join the Flow-Launcher Team and help build this great tool.

Developing/Debugging

• Flow Launcher's target framework is .Net 6

• Install Visual Studio 2022

• Install .Net 6 SDK via Visual Studio installer or manually from here