Dedicated to making your workflow flow more seamless. Search everything from applications, files, bookmarks, YouTube, Twitter and more. Flow will continue to evolve, designed to be open and built with the community at heart.
Remember to star it, flow will love you more :)
## 🎉 New Features in 1.9
- All New Design. New Themes, New Setting Window. Animation & Sound Effect, Color Scheme aka Dark Mode.
- New Plugins, Plugin Store, Game Mode, Wizard window
- Full changelog
## 🚗 Getting Started
### Installation
| [Windows 7+ installer](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/releases/latest/download/Flow-Launcher-Setup.exe) | [Portable](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/releases/latest/download/Flow-Launcher-Portable.zip) | `WinGet install "Flow Launcher"` |
| :----------------------------------------------------------: | :----------------------------------------------------------: | :------------------------------: |
> Windows may complain about security due to code not being signed, this will be completed at a later stage. If you downloaded from this repo, you are good to continue the set up.
And you can download early access version.
## 🎁 Features
### Applications & Files
- Search for files or their contents.
- Support search using environment variable paths.
### Web Search & Open URL
### Browser Bookmarks
### System Commands
- Provides System related commands. shutdown, lock, settings, etc.
- System command list
### Calculator
- Do mathematical calculations and copy the result to clipboard.
### Shell Command
- Run batch and PowerShell commands as Administrator or a different user.
- Ctrl+Enter to Run as Administrator.
### Explorer
- Save file or folder locations for quick access.
### Window Setting & Control Panel
- Search within Window Settings & Control Panel.
### Priority
- Prioritise the order of each plugin's results.
### Customization
- Window size adjustment, animation, and sound
- Color Scheme (aka Dark Mode)
- There are various themes and you can make it yourself.
### 💬 Language
- Support languages from Chinese to Italian and more.
- Support Pinyin.
- Translation support this project in [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/flow-launcher)
### Portable
- Fully portable.
- Type `flow user data` to open your saved user settings folder. They are located at:
- If using roaming: `%APPDATA%\FlowLauncher`
- If using portable, by default: `%localappdata%\FlowLauncher\app-
- Suspend the hotkey when you are playing games.
## 📦 Plugins
- Support wide range of plugins. Visit [here](https://flow-launcher.github.io/docs/#/plugins) for our plugin portfolio.
- If you are using Python plugins, flow will prompt to either select the location or allow Python (Embeddable) to be automatic downloaded for use.
- Publish your own plugin to flow! Create plugins in [C#](https://flow-launcher.github.io/docs/#/develop-dotnet-plugins), [Python](https://flow-launcher.github.io/docs/#/develop-py-plugins), [JavaScript](https://flow-launcher.github.io/docs/#/nodejs-develop-plugins) or [TypeScript](https://flow-launcher.github.io/docs/#/nodejs-develop-plugins)
### Everything
### SpotifyPremium
### Steam Search
### Clipboard History
### Home Assistant Commander
### Colors
### Github
### Windows Walker
......and more!
### 🛒 Plugin Store
- You can view the full plugin list or quickly install a plugin via the Plugin Store menu in Settings
- or type `pm` `install`/`uninstall`/`update` + the plugin name in the search window,
## ⌨️ Hotkeys
| Hotkey | Description |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------- |
| Alt+ Space | Open Search Box (Default and Configurable) |
| Enter | Execute |
| Ctrl+Shift+Enter | Run As Admin |
| ↑↓ | Scroll up & Down |
| ←→ | Back to Result / Open Context Menu |
| Ctrl +o , Shift +Enter | Open Context Menu |
| Tab | Autocomplete |
| Esc | Back to Result & Close |
| Ctrl +i | Open Setting Window |
| F5 | Reload All Plugin Data & Window Search Index |
| Ctrl + h | Open Query History |
## System Command List
| Command | Description |
| ---------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Shutdown | Shutdown computer |
| Restart | Restart computer |
| Restart with advance | Restart the computer with Advanced Boot option for safe and debugging modes |
| Log off | Log off |
| Lock | Lock computer |
| Sleep | Put computer to sleep |
| Hibernate | Hibernate computer |
| Empty Recycle Bin | Empty recycle bin |
| Exit | Close Flow Launcher |
| Save Settings | Save all Flow Launcher settings |
| Restart Flow Launcher | Restart Flow Launcher |
| Settings | Tweak this app |
| Reload Plugin Data | Refreshes plugin data with new content |
| Check For Update | Check for new Flow Launcher update |
| Open Log Location | Open Flow Launcher's log location |
| Flow Launcher Tip | Visit Flow Launcher's documentation for more help and how to use tips |
| Flow Launcher UserData | Open the location where Flow Launcher's settings are stored |
### 💁♂️ Tips
- [More tips](https://flow-launcher.github.io/docs/#/usage-tips)
## ❔ Questions/Suggestions
Yes please, let us know in the [Q&A](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/discussions/categories/q-a) section. **Join our community on [Discord](https://discord.gg/AvgAQgh)!**
## Development
### Status
Flow is under heavy development, but the code base is stable, so contributions are very welcome. If you would like to help maintain it, please do not hesistate to get in touch.
### Contributing
We welcome all contributions. If you are unsure of a change you want to make, let us know in the [Discussions](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/discussions/categories/ideas), otherwise feel free to put in a pull request.
You will find the main goals of flow placed under the [Projects board](https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/projects), so feel free to contribute on that. If you would like to make small incremental changes, feel free to do so as well.
Get in touch if you like to join the Flow-Launcher Team and help build this great tool.
### Developing/Debugging
- Flow Launcher's target framework is .Net 5
- Install Visual Studio 2019
- Install .Net 5 SDK via Visual Studio installer or manually from [here](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/thank-you/sdk-5.0.103-windows-x64-installer)
