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Wox is a launcher for windows, inspired by Alfred and Launchy. Wox indexes your programs, your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks. You can launch everything with just a few keystrokes!.

Features

  1. Search for applications, folders, files. Search for bookmarks of browser is also possible via plugin.
  2. Search the web using shortcuts (e.g. search google with g keyword)
  3. Themes support, get more themes from http://www.getwox.com/theme/builder
  4. Plugin support, get more plugins from http://www.getwox.com/plugin

Screenshot

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Installation

  1. Download
  2. Latest stable version: release page.
  3. Latest build: history (top green build -> artifacts -> release-binary.zip).
  4. Unzip it and put it into your user directory (C:\Users\YOUUSERNAME or %userprofile%)
  5. Windows 10 user, please have a look at https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/issues/279

Simple Usage

  • Launch: Alt+Space
  • Install/Uninstall plugin: type wpm install/uninstall
  • Remember type restart to restarat Wox after installation of a plugin

Contribute

If you are a developer, 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 if you want to contribute :)

If you are not a developer, you can still contribute to the project. Install the Latest build and report bugs. 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.