Cerebro - a free alternative to Alfred and Spotlight

I want to show you my open-source project Cerebro - this is a free alternative to Alfred and Spotligth, which I started working on a few 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 many screenshots under the cut)

What for?

I set for myself several goals:

• Make a free open-source analogue of Alfred and Spotlight;
• It must be cross-platform;
• Unlike many open-source projects, focus on good UI / UX and ease of use;
• Fix what Alfred doesn't like: greater freedom for plugins (for example, displaying not only text, but also any other interface elements);
• Fix what you don't like about Spotlight: customization, plugins, speed;
• “Powerful hey, so that any JS developer can make 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 constantly. Out of the box, it can:

• Search in google;

• Search and run applications (only on MacOS so far);
  
  

  
  

• Read and convert values
  
  

  
  

• Navigate through the file system and show files

  
  
  

• Translate from one language to another
  
  

  
  
• Search on Google Maps
  

Plugins

A plugin is a simple npm module written in javascript. Basically, you can write a plugin in any other language just by wrapping your script call in js. Plugin creation documentation is available on the github .

At the time of writing, 10 plugins are available that you can search for and install directly from the application:

• Search the caniuse.com database

  
  
  

• Search movies on IMDB

  
  
  

• Search gifs on giphy.com

  
  
  

• Search for suitable emoji

  
  
  

• Search Contacts in OSx
  
  

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

Reviews

I hope that you 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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