Alfred is an laurels-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more than. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.

Search and Scan

Launch applications and detect files on your Mac or on the web. Alfred learns how you use your Mac and prioritizes results. Save endless hours by using hotkeys, keywords and customizing how you lot want to search your Mac and activeness history. Jump in and browse, preview files and take action on them without lifting your fingers off the keyboard.

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With Alfred'south Clipboard History and Snippets features, in that location'due south no need to blazon the aforementioned URLs or responses over and over. Use the Clipboard History to locate any text, image or file you copied earlier and paste information technology again. Create your ain snippets and type a short abbreviation to auto-expand them into a total text snippet, saving yourself hours of typing in the long run.

Extend and Automate

With Alfred's Powerpack, use immensely powerful workflows to perform tasks more efficiently and cut downwards on repetitive transmission tasks. Link hotkeys, keywords and actions together to create your own workflows; There's no need to write a unmarried line of code to create a workflow. Import workflows from the thousands our community of creators have shared.

Command Your Music

You're the boss. Boost your productivity by controlling your Mac using Alfred's deep integration with Bone X. Swiftly have action on files and contacts, control your music player and dispatch System commands. Add some fun to your mean solar day; Plough your iPhone or iPad into a command centre for your Mac with Alfred Remote for iOS. Alternatively, take a look at the many workflows for other music services like Spotify.

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Workflow Changes

  • Workflow editor rendering tweaks to significantly improve the UI performance with very big and circuitous workflows
  • Improve visibility of modifiers set on connections, specially when using lite object colours
  • Updated Workflow ObjectsHotkey Trigger
  • The same hotkey combination can at present be shared across multiple triggers matching different conditions
  • Added navigation to related hotkeys on the contextual popup carte du jour for a hotkey trigger in the workflow editor
  • Prioritisation of shared hotkey to run, with the following priority:
  • In Focus match takes highest priority, e.thousand. Hotkey only when Safari in focus
  • Not in Focus takes secondary priority, due east.thou. Hotkey merely when Spotify not in focus
  • Falls back to hotkey with no app specific focus configured
  • Hints shown in orange if a shared hotkey combination is in use
  • Hotkey Trigger object key philharmonic background changes
  • Subtext nether the hotkey field updates with warning
  • Show subtle grey background behind awarding icons on Hotkey Object in workflow editor where hotkey focus manner is set to "don't have focus"
  • Copy and Paste of object (or object configuration) at present also retains the hotkey combo
  • Annotation that this will naturally create a conflict which you will have to manually resolve

Script Filter Input

  • Fix Run Behaviour canvas "Reset to Defaults" push button to also reset the "Statement" section
  • Copy to Clipboard Output
  • Stock-still to now correctly use clipboardtextrtf property from passed-in JSON config
  • Reorganise internal logic to enable plain text clipboard output to be derived from passed-in RTF from JSON config
  • Only save either clipboardtext or clipboardtextrtf into the configuration
  • Fixes automatic {cursor} positioning with mismatching rtf / obviously text

Arg / Var Utility

  • Add together option to "pass through" the input argument, allowing for array objects (e.g. list of files) to pass through unprocessed
  • Clarify the help subtext in the configuration canvass
  • New Workflow ObjectsFile Buffer Activeness
  • Added new workflow action to collaborate with Alfred's File Buffer
  • Action in Alfred Action
  • Added new workflow action to show Alfred'due south actions panel for the passed in file

File Utility

  • Tests if file exists and outputs on one of two outputs accordingly
  • Option to as well output the UTI for the file as a variable
  • This could be useful for subsequent branching using a Conditional
  • New Workflow Object Inbound Configuration
  • Access using the "Inbound Configuration..." popup menu for the selected object
  • External trigger identifiers can now be straight ready on external objects
  • Conflicts are now checked between the External Trigger object, and any external identifiers set up
  • You at present have control over how a downstream input object presents its results between Direct and Keyword modes
  • Direct mode is the previous behaviour, where the input icon is placed to the right hand side and you see no keyword
  • Keyword mode places the input into Alfred'southward default results and sets it as unique (aforementioned as pressing return on a placeholder)
  • Workflow objects correspond the presence of an external identifier with small hint on object input in Workflow editor
  • Double click the hint for faster subsequent admission to the entering configuration
  • The icon for both External Trigger and Call External have been tweaked to match the new hint
  • Set internal variable types in workflow editor framework
  • Added "Filter Workflows past..." on the popup menu for workflow objects in the canvass for hotkeys and keywords
  • Makes it easier to find workflows with similar hotkeys and keywords
  • Standardise how an assortment of arguments is shown in the workflow debugger
  • Amend various subtexts throughout the workflow object configuration sheets

Snippets and Clipboard

  • Snippets can now embed other snippets using the {snippet:} placeholder
  • Placeholder works in all expected places, for instance, the Copy to Clipboard workflow output object
  • Notation that nesting is only one level deep
  • Added a "Copy Placeholder" on the popup menu for a selected snippet to copy the relevant {snippet:} placeholder
  • Better text placeholder framework
  • Improved processing efficiency by deriving plain text content from already-processed rich text content where applicable
  • more consistent behaviour between clipboard objects
  • Fixes outcome where the snip keyword wasn't correctly processing rich text placeholders
  • Fix Snippet keyword to correctly respect the "Auto-paste on Return" choice
  • Option to ignore org.nspasteboard.AutoGeneratedType in the Clipboard History Advanced preferences, enabled past default

Contacts

  • Multiple Contact Actions tin can now exist configured with modifier keysContact Actions editor sail now correctly shows "Add together" or "Save" button instead of just "Add"
  • Set up the Add / Salvage button shortcut to be ⌘South
  • Activity text at lesser of Contact Viewer now updates on mod key change to provide action hint
  • Better the "type to search" in the Contacts Viewer
  • You tin can at present press upwardly and down to select the previous or adjacent friction match for the typed filter
  • Trim around name components when creating full name

1Password

  • Added culling ⌘↩︎ action to open the selected 1Password bookmark in 1Password instead of Open and Fill

Troubleshooting

  • Start process of calculation interactive troubleshooting congenital into Alfred'southward Help preferences to assist fixing common issues
  • Also add help links to key troubleshooting assistance pages
  • Troubleshooting is written to a Report file, for easy emailing and subsequent back up

File Search

  • Run a number of diagnostic checks on a dragged in file to piece of work out why it isn't existence found

Full general fixes and improvements

  • Fix Alfred using (and consuming) upwardly/down fundamental events when IME panel is showing (eastward.g. Pinyin selection panel)
  • Note that this fix is more than of a "workaround" to a lack of Public API to officially support this
  • Recognise total width space U+3000 as an activator for Alfred's quick file search manner
  • Evidence Base32 decoded data wherever dyn.a UTI types are seen, to give meliorate idea of content
  • Ready making selected result unique in Alfred's default results if input is configured to be "no infinite"
  • Alfred was immediately disassociating the unique effect due to wrong logic
  • Fix Music feature clarification text in Catalina to correctly say Music.app instead of iTunes
  • Fix Nighttime / Lite mode appearance of descriptive text in macOS Rebuild Metadata canvas
  • Make the snip keyword'due south subtext more succinct for Copy or Paste text, showing more of the snippet content
  • Fully resolve [local] symlinks and aliases when using Quick Wait, to see the file contents instead of the file icon
  • Fix twitter spider web search icon colour

File Buffer Improvements

  • Show "x+ items" to peak left of Buffer when the number of visible items exceeds the available visible space
  • Correctly re-draw the buffer when additional items are added and removed beyond the visible window width
  • Add a - button to delete selected custom web searches in the Web Search preferences
  • Evidence version number for Application bundles in preview panels (eastward.g. file organisation navigation, action console)
  • Improve VoiceOver accessibility for hotkey fields, now correctly reads newly inputted hotkey