Alfred

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “an Alfred workflow for opening my IntelliJ projects either in an an IDE or terminal that also comes with an integrated build task runner, so I can quickly discover and run build tasks even when I don't have a project opened anywhere”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “used Alfred to make a GUI for it. Now it feels like a full-blown GUI”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-21

• “I tried Alfred and Raycast, but never used any of the helper functionalities. Just used it to open apps and files.”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-27

• “Something that's helped me lately is setup alfred commands where various apps are bound to a combination key press”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-04

• “look in the Alfred manual, and realize it already supports the same feature and that I'll stay put, thanks”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-31

• “I switched to Alfred years ago and I don't see myself switching back anytime soon.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-22

• “I love both, and there are things I think Raycast does much better than Alfred, but ultimately I'm not the target market for Raycast and I was feeling for a year or so that I was swimming upstream on my usage of it”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-04

• “Alfred is also a *lot* slower on Tahoe. I can often wait a whole second after pressing the shortcut before the bar appears whereas on Sequoia it was instant.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-04

• “Alfred's search seems to be several times faster than Tuna's search”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-25

• “I even have my own special snippets in Alfred, like typing "" produces "" with the caret in between”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-13

• “One thing that has helped me the most in that regard is Alfred's multi-clipboard feature, where I can append to clipboard, which means I can copy-paste N links in N+1 actions instead of N*2 actions.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-12

• “On MacOS I have super+tab bring up Alfred with a fuzzy find through my open tabs”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-30

• “Wrapping it into Alfred made it fast enough to use constantly, with zero UI and no extra services”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-12

• “I haven't launched Alfred since upgrading to Tahoe. Especially since you can now create Shortcuts that get input directly from Spotlight or the active window.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-10

• “I've been using Alfred for forever, but with the new Spotlight on Tahoe I've decided to just try using Spotlight alone”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-10

• “I really like Alfred, it's a worthy descendant of QS for sure”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-10

• “Alfred isn't the shiniest thing anymore but it's stood the time remarkably well, something I value very highly for tools as central to my workflow as Alfred.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-11-23

• “I've had an Alfred command since 2013 where I type `wiki something` which then opens Confluence and searches for `something`. I use this to quickly search our company wiki for terms without breaking my concentration and flow.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-11-21

• “Alfred has been doing the job well enough, only requires me to buy a new version a couple times per decade, and isn't going to become enshittified because there's no VCs to come knocking looking for a profit.”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-09-15

• “I have Alfred but mainly just use the clipboard feature. I've tried to get into automation but struggled for inspiration.”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-28

• “I highly recommend an Alfred workflow so you just press command + space then type 'llm <prompt>' and it opens tabs with the prompt in perplexity, (locally running) deepseek, chatgpt, claude and grok, or whatever other LLMs you want to add”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-28

• “makes them immediately searchable in Alfred and really fast to open”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-08-16

• “Alfred ties into it nicely too, you can type `spell someword` and the completions below have the various spellings of words, fuzzy matched. Select one and the word goes onto your clipboard”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-08-12

• “Finding specific playlist or music to play is pretty easy, especially with Alfred.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-07-10

• “Just Works and stays out of the way until you need it. I've replaced spotlight with Alfred maybe a decade ago and haven't looked back since.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-06-11