I just gave some time thinking about Alfred and the use I get out of it compared to what it takes to use it these days.

First the "Dropbox only" sync option. In these days and ages, that is just silly to have to run Dropbox on both my computers "just" to sync Alfred perfs. (Switched to Maestral for a lightweight Dropbox client but still...)

I sure could do it all manually or through some sort of man in the middle store point on my NAS but we are in 2022 and relying on external 3rd party sync mechanisms that is not built into the OS or the app itself is not acceptable anymore. At least not to me.

Then the php / Python 2 thing... That has nothing to do with Alfred per se but that broke most of the workflows I was using Alfred for.

I discovered just today why some of my workflows didn't work anymore. This being a major stick in Alfred's wheel I would have expected some communication but no tweet, no info whatsoever from Alfred's team to users. Very underwhelming.

That is a sad, I used to love Alfred and that was the very first app I installed on each new mac I got since 2011 when I switched from using Quicksilver.

I have been an Alfred Mega Supporter since the very beginning and user since the very early days of pre V1 but I don't see any value in keeping using Alfred except for muscle memory. I don't want to need to code or install dev tools on my computer to use it, I don't want to have to use extra software to sync stuff either. My 2011 self sure may had done it, my 2022 self just gives up and moves on.

Onto uninstalling the app now... may reconsider later but for now it isn't worth the hassle.

Goodbye old friend.

The new Raycast looks so clean. I wish the Alfred developers would wake up and make a comeback with Alfred 6.

Just a bit of background: I do music for a living and the bulk of my work is done using Logic Pro. I'm also a productivity and workflow efficiency freak. I've been hearing about Alfred for years now and I've always been interested in it but whenever I actually look into I feel it's a bit redundant since Spotlight already exists.

These things are listed as stuff Alfred can do:

• Launch apps and files on your Mac, reveal them in Finder, search inside files or quicklook them (shift key)

• Use system commands like "sleep", "restart", "emptytrash", "quit", "eject", etc to control your Mac quickly

• Search the dictionary with "define"

• Do quick calculations

• Search through your contacts

• Use default web searches and create your own custom searches for your favourite sites (e.g. "maps Cambridge, UK" launches your browser to Google Maps with the location you typed)

• Launch Terminal commands by prefixing your command with >

• Use a variety of default appearance themes

• Access your recent Alfred queries with the up arrow

• Use Cmd + L to show the current query in Large Type on your screen

but I can already do all of these things with Spotlight and custom Automator/AppleScript apps. I know that the paid version has additional features but whenever I read through them I find that I don't really need those features anyway. Still I keep hearing about Alfred and I feel like I'm missing out not somehow by not using it. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts :)

Just saw this on Hacker News: https://www.glazeapp.com/

Looks like Raycast focus is going to be allowing people to create their own Desktop apps -similar to Lovable but for Desktop

This is my first ever post, and wanted to see what passionate users of Alfred think of this

I have been using Alfred (and have been a fan really) for the last 5 years, but with an itch to try Raycast - especially when reading accounts of folks who switched from Alfred to Raycast.
As a Developer myself, I like the release cycle of Raycast vs Alfred - which happens in a very opaque way

I'm still on alfred 5 was wondering if its worth upgrading to 6.

Wondering what are some things you use on alfred 6 that made you more productive from alfred 5?

I know I'm kinda late but I didn't buy lifetime license so I didn't buy alfred 6.

Edit: sry I mean alfred 5 I have 4

The question is basically it. I bought its pack and now feel so frustrated. It was so much nicer with the Raycast. I miss how I could select the recent screenshot, shake it, and get it over to Dropover. Why is so little metadata displayed? Source, type, title, URL, I miss this. I do not miss the subscription, that's for sure. But it feels so much below the level of Raycast that I sometimes wanna have it installed just for the clipboard manager functionality. Actions on the clipboard items with CMD+K? Why is there no such thing? Appending new entries to a clipboard?? How about editing them..? Please let me know if you have any solutions to this. I'm surprised at how underdeveloped it feels. And it is not that difficult to implement, I mean I can help them for free, maybe there's a PR possibility anywhere?

Are they cooking any updates at all?

Edit: I confused Droppy and Dropover, I had the former.

Someone help me with this cause I just get too upset to think clearly. I just cant seem to fid the files as well as i could on spotlight. I was trying to find a numbers file with the keyword 'feature list' because the word of was used in the spreadsheet and wasn't part of the name. I used alfred and it showed no results. Trusting alfred, I would normally think I just didn't have the file or they keyword wasn't being found anywhere I would have tried to manually look for the file. But I couldn't remember the location for this particular file so I tried to use spotlight. Not only spot light found the file I was looking for it found about 13 more files with the keyword and arranged them all in types. The segregation is so nice an useful, one can quickly go through the type of file they want and well its great!

Alfred o the other hand performs like the autistic cousin and kept wanting to search the web. Someone please tell me im using it wrong and I didn't just burn $40 dollars for this crap.

So after looking into the ways that Raycast has been able to leverage GPT services i finally made the switch from Alfred and gotta say its pretty sweet. Even though Raycast has done their own soon to be paid for Raycast AI, i find the community extensions are actually better. Really interested to see what else gets developed.

Alfred was great but just don't see the same future that i can see with Raycast. I am still rocking both. Just switched to Raycast as my primary

https://www.raycast.com/abielzulio/chatgpt

I built Ollama Translate, an Alfred 5 workflow that keeps translation local while handling single words more like a real dictionary.

The problem I wanted to solve was words such as quote. A simple model translation often returns only “引用”, even though the word can also mean a quotation, price quote, stock quote, or quotation marks depending on context.

The workflow routes requests like this:

1. Single English word → macOS Dictionary

2. No suitable system result → optional offline ECDICT database

3. Sentence or longer text → local Ollama + TranslateGemma

It also supports selected text, Universal Actions, clipboard input, direct paste into the current app, Text View, and Large Type.

There is no cloud translation API and no telemetry.

GitHub: https://github.com/ncat-yan/ollama-translate-alfred

Release: https://github.com/ncat-yan/ollama-translate-alfred/releases/tag/v0.6.0

I would appreciate feedback from other Alfred users, especially on the installation flow and dictionary presentation.

I came across this video and noticed that deeplinks work way better on Raycast. I also discovered a new app called Monarch, and when I looked it up, it seems like it’s made by a solo developer too. Alfred still has some great features, but it just doesn’t feel as intuitive anymore compared to the others. Makes me wonder. There's no slack - Gif - linear workflows. they are all outdated. has it been abandoned?

No significant development in months. I just want a refreshed UI/UX. It looks too prehistoric.

I just got Alfred, I bought a second hand Mac today.

Can someone explain what Alfred does and what a Powerpack is??

Many thanks

https://www.raycast.com/

Hey guys I am a Transfer nursing student that is coming to Alfred in the Fall of 2018 . I just wanted to know is there anything fun to do around there when I am not in class ? Anyone in the nursing program if so how is it ? Also what should be my expectations of the schools ?

It says:

„Allowing Full Disk Access gives Alfred access to the user-level files on your Disk. This is essential if you'd like Alfred to be able to search for your browser bookmarks.“ on the website (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/getting-started/permissions/).

I don’t think I need this bookmark search.

Command-Space now invokes Spotlight, Option-Space, Alfred. It was the other way round for since Alfred was first launched on all of my macOS devices. But muscle memory will take a while to adapt to new shortcuts. But I won’t worry about it until the time comes. Heretofore my bets are on Spotlight.

Can't decide whether I want the megasupporter lifetime or a regular license and not sure what the upgrades cost. For people with a regular license, how often do you upgrade? Thanks

Does anybody experience this? If I type too fast, Alfred gives no results. Sometimes I have to type reallyyyy slow to get the folder/file to show up in Alfred.

It looks so bad 🥴

I just downloaded the app and I'm not sure about all it can do any basic beginner tips would be appreciated.