Cerebro is a free alternative to Alfred and Spotlight

I want to show you my open-source project Cerebro is a free alternative to Alfred and Spotligth, which I started working on several months ago and only recently achieved stability and cross-platform, with which I am ready to show the product to a wide audience.

(there will be a lot of screenshots under the cut)

What for?

I set myself several goals:

• Make a free open-source analogue of Alfred and Spotlight;
• It must be cross-platform;
• In contrast to many open-source projects, focus on good UI / UX and ease of use;
• Fix what's not to like in Alfred: more freedom for plug-ins (for example, displaying not only text, but also any other interface elements);
• Fix what you don’t like in Spotlight: customization, plugins, speed;
• “Powerful hey-pi-ai”, so that any JS developer can do a simple extension in 10 minutes, and users can find these plugins in one place.

What happened

As a result, using javascript and electron, I created an application that I use all the time. Out of the box, it can:

• Search Google;

• Search and launch applications (currently only on MacOS);
  
  

  
  

• Read and convert values
  
  

  
  

• Navigate through the file system and show files

  
  
  

• Translate from one language to another
  
  

  
  
• Search Google Maps
  

Plugins

A plugin is a simple npm module written in javascript. Basically, you can write a plugin in any other language by simply wrapping up the call to your script in js. Documentation for creating plugins is available on github .

At the time of this writing, 10 plug-ins are available, which can be searched and installed directly from the application:

• Search in the database caniuse.com

  
  
  

• Search movies on IMDB

  
  
  

• Search gif at giphy.com

  
  
  

• Finding the right emoji

  
  
  

• Search in contacts in OSx
  
  

  
  
• Executing shell-comand
  
  
  
• System commands for OSx (screen saver, empty trash, restart)
• Search in built-in OSx dictionary
• Display external and internal IP addresses
• Kill - to kill any process in the system

Reviews

I hope that you will find something useful for yourself. In the comments I would like to hear feedback, suggestions, criticism. And I will be glad to pull-requests and new plugins from developers!

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