Why Choose Alfred?

Alfred is an award-winning productivity app for macOS, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and many more user-friendly features to suit all Mac users from casual beginners to advanced developers.

Alfred's free version includes a wide range of features:

Search your Mac: Find apps and files on your Mac
Contacts: Search for friends and colleagues, and open their details in Contacts.app
Web Searches: Use 30+ default web searches for commonly used websites
Custom searches: Search your favourite websites with custom search keywords
Calculator: Perform quick maths calculations, and copy the results to your clipboard
Dictionary: Spell and define words
System Commands: Sleep your Mac, empty Trash, activate your screensaver and more
QuickLook: Tap Shift to preview the content of a file without opening it
Large Type: Pop up a phone number or any text in large text on your screen
Theming: Set a dark or light theme to match your macOS preference

The Powerpack: A world of productivity features

With the Powerpack, you'll unlock a wealth of additional built-in features, as well as workflows.

The built-in features include a blazingly fast Clipboard History tool, Snippets Text Expansion, File Navigation and Universal Actions which can be used on files, text and URLs.

And if Alfred's built-in features don't do it? Using workflows and Automation Tasks, you can create actions to save you time and effort by automating repetitive and laborious tasks. Our incredible community can help you create these workflows on the Alfred Forum.

By purchasing a Powerpack license, you will unlock all of these features:

Workflows: Extend Alfred's core features with customisable filters for file types, hotkey-triggered actions and much more.
Clipboard History: Save text clips, images and file paths to your clipboard with a keyboard shortcut, then search, browse and paste them wherever you're working.
Snippets & Text Expansion: Create and share collections of snippets for your most frequently typed text; From URLs and email signatures to complete responses with dynamic additions like dates and clipboard content!
Manage your files: Navigate your Mac's file system from the keyboard, quick-look files and perform actions on them.
Integrate with your favourite apps and sites: Eradicate repetitive tasks and manual clicks through websites by creating workflows for your most-used websites and apps.
Contacts Viewer: Look up your contact details, and start a call or email directly from Alfred.
Back up your preferences: Sync your preferences to a cloud service on your choice and share them between your Macs.
Rich, interactive Views: Make your workflows beautiful with easy-to-use rich views with the Text View, Grid View, PDF View and Image View workflow objects.

This only scratches the surface of what you can achieve with Alfred.

Alfred Workflows

Alfred Workflows give you numerous ways to extend Alfred's features, allowing you to get things done your way by speeding up repetitive tasks, and integrating with your favourite Mac apps and services. They offer a powerful platform to create your own extensions, as well as install workflows created by community members.

There are hundreds of curated and reviewed workflows on the official Alfred Gallery and thousands shared by users on Github, their own website and the Alfred Forum.

Workflow integrations with your favourite sites and services

You'll find integrations in Alfred workflows for numerous sites and services you love;

Reddit social news & communities
Interact with OpenAI's ChatGPT and DALL-E with an interactive chat history
Use LLM Artificial Intelligence tools like Claude.ai, Anthropic, Gemini and many more
Search for movie and TV Shows ratings using sources like IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Letterboxd, MovieChat, JustWatch, Simkl, MyAnimeList and more
Run Better Touch Tools actions and triggers
Interact with your OmniFocus tasks
Browse and open snapshots from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
Detect what music is playing with Shazam
Mute and unmute Discord quickly with hotkeys
Browse and interact with your Plex media servers
Interact with note-taking app Obsidian
Open connections in Panic's Transmit app
Perform in-line WHOIS lookups
Setup temporary email addresses services like Maildrop, Harikirimail and Shark Lasers
GitHub code repository integration
Upload files and folders to temporary file hosting sites like transfer.sh, filebin.net and more
Search linkding bookmarks
Search developer documentation in DevDocs; biome, ruff, shellcheck, pandoc, WezTerm, just, yq, Obsidian and more.
Browse and search Unix Manual pages
Look up package managers; Cocoa, Ubuntu, Ruby Gems, Python, Raspberry Pi, PHP, Node.js, Docker, Apache, Java and more
Compress images with TinyPNG without leaving Alfred

Standalone and offline workflows

Many handy workflows are standalone and don't require third-party services or internet access:

Make quick unit conversions between different units of measurement
Toggle Do Not Disturb focus mode
Share files to AirDrop
Set timers and alarms
Prevent your computer from going to sleep
Take notes in Alfred
Search through menu bar items
Open System Settings in macOS
Close notification alerts
Optimise, compress and extract content from PDF documents
Convert Roman numerals to decimal and vice versa
Connect and disconnect your AirPods
Toggle Bluetooth and paired device connectivity
Mount and unmount disk partitions
Run and manage virtual machines
Search, upload and organise screenshots with a visual preview
Random text generators for lorem ipsum and other random filler text
Browse emoji collections and add them to your messages
Manage macOS windows
Organise your bookmarks in a searchable Markdown file
Play a Memory Pairs card-matching game
Open links in Incognito browser windows

Workflows are created by both the Alfred team and community members at large; New workflows are created every day, and you can contribute to this brilliant range of extended features. The range of available Workflows evolves as third-party integrations and macOS become available or change.

Your privacy and security matter

Alfred is Developer ID signed and notarised so every update is automatically checked by Apple.

Your data is yours; Alfred doesn't track your searches and doesn't share your usage data with us.

Alfred only connects to the Internet to activate your PowerPack license and check for updates. Though we recommend keeping those on, you can disable them if you so wish, you’re in control. Learn more about Alfred and Security

You can back up your Alfred preferences to the cloud service of your choice, ensuring that your preferences are safe even if you reinstall or replace your Mac.

Optimised to be efficient and lightweight on your Mac

Since its inception, Alfred has always been developed to be lightweight, efficient and optimised for macOS. Alfred is 100% native to macOS, and takes advantage of everything Apple offers.

Other apps are often weighed down by bulky third-party libraries, or built with non-native cross-platform frameworks for the ease of the developers above users, but Alfred is and will always be lightning fast as your productivity is the priority!

Simple Powerpack licensing to suit your needs

Beyond the free version, there are two types of Alfred Powerpack licenses available for individuals: A Single User license valid for the current major version (e.g. Alfred 5.x) and a Mega Supporter lifetime license, where you can purchase once and get all future updates to Alfred for free.

All Single User Powerpack license holders are eligible for discounted upgrades when the next version becomes available.

No subscriptions that sneakily change price, no renewals to remember, and no complex pricing matrix!

Here for the long haul

When Alfred was first created, it was built to meet our own needs as Mac users, looking to enhance our own Mac life.

Since then, Running with Crayons, the company behind Alfred, has been self-sustaining and funded by the sale of the Powerpack. That's all thanks to you, and your choice to purchase your Powerpack license.

We are a small independent team, based in the UK and Portugal, and we talk to and interact with our community every single day, working with workflow creators and users of all experience and skill levels. As such, we are able to make decisions that truly benefit the community, focusing on quality and longevity, rather than on lining the pockets of investors who want a quick return.

With every major version, Alfred's features have become richer and easier to discover, while ultimately staying as lightweight and unobtrusive as possible. Our priority will always be to help you feel productive and efficient in your everyday Mac life.

Alfred is here to stay, making the time and energy you invest in optimising your flow and tasks completely worth it.