Comments on: Quick Search Box or Quicksilver?

By: Station Grey

Station Grey — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 21:21:50 +0000

I’ve been using QS for a few years and constantly telling every other Mac user to use it. A QS-free Mac felt weird.

Been trying Launchbar for a few days now though. There are two large and obvious disadvantages – it’s not free (or even cheap) and it’s not pretty the way QS is. But it’s still better. Fast, effortless, accurate and with more features (that I’ve found given both equal amount of digging). It’s like QS is but more so.

I wish it was free and I wish it looked as pretty. But it’s definitely better.

The question is whether I can be bothered to stump up for it when the trial’s over or switch back to the perfectly-good QS.

Will try Alfred now too.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:07:55 +0000

You and I are on the same page Bill. I get the feeling that QS is definitely more of a power-user tool, as it does so much more than just ‘launch’. Most users don’t/won’t get to that level with their launcher, which is why I believe Alfred is so popular here in the comments – it certainly seems to be solid, but also no where near what QS has been able to do.

By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:49:28 +0000

Glad you enjoyed the screencasts! As TAB has migrated and evolved, I don’t know if the links/files were broken, or if they’re still hanging around in the old, OLD archives…Certainly hope it’s the latter.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:07:04 +0000

I have been a Quicksilver user for years. It is the first thing I install on my machine. From launching apps and URLs to navigating my files and copying/moving them and more. I can’t list everything I do with it. Yes, it even resizes images…no more dedicated apps for that. But hearing about Alfred, I’m going to give it a try.

By: Raymond Rees

Raymond Rees — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:43:16 +0000

Alfred is the best and it’s still in beta… Wish it had more ties with gmail.

By: lhagan

lhagan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:47:35 +0000

Never could get into the launch bar craze. Spotlight does pretty well for searching and launching apps; all that other stuff is easier for me to do in Terminal. Actually, I’ve been enjoying DTerm of late — instant command line access makes something like Quicksilver that much less appealing.

By: Steve Breen

Steve Breen — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:13:35 +0000

Like a few other commenters, I switched to LaunchBar when things went south with QS (10.6 mainly). Rock solid, great app.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:33:22 +0000

Butler.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:33:06 +0000

Quicksilver. Hands down.

I was really excited when I learned about QSB, and wanted to love it. However, I have had the same problems and issues that the article outlines, and have stayed faithful to QS, especially since it is now, for me, very stable. The other killer feature for me is drap and drop filing; the ability to start QS, search for a folder, and then drop a file from my desktop into it is crucial to my very existence, and until someone else brings that to the party, I expect to remain faithful.

By: Matt Burden

Matt Burden — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:01:23 +0000

I moved from QS to Launchbar and have been very happy. The developer is responsive and offers frequent updates.

The clipboard history is a MUST HAVE for me. I see Alfred will add that in a future update.