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CLUSTER CROSS-EXTENSIBLE-LAUNCHER · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-08-30

Cross-platform extensible app launchers

This cluster consists of cross-platform, extensible application launchers, with at least one incorporating AI for faster app discovery. The dated history is too thin to discern a shape, as only two dated entries exist before the index start, so it predates the index or its members are undated. Among the tracked members, qimiao leads on traction with 7 stars, while the other two have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2024: 1FEB 2025: 1AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2024OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 5 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 2 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01qimiao8★1 mo—Cross-platform launcher that uses AI to quickly find and launch apps, with support for extensible commands.
  2. 02tornado-app-launcher0★16 days—hobbyWeb app launcher that lets users customize, search, and open a curated set of apps and games with authenticated profiles.
  3. 03open-palette0★9 days—hobbyOpen-source cross-platform desktop launcher that offers a command palette, application launching, clipboard management, and plugins for keyboard-driven productivity.
  4. 04kunkun-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceOpen-source cross-platform extensible app launcher for quickly launching applications and workflows.
  5. 05gauntlet-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCross-platform application launcher that opens apps and is extensible with user-created plugins.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.