Alfred for Mac

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

Features

Search and Browse

Launch applications and find files on your Mac or on the web. Alfred learns how you use your Mac and prioritises results. Save countless hours by using hotkeys, keywords and customising how you want to search your Mac and activity history. Jump in and browse, preview files and take action on them without lifting your fingers off the keyboard.

Type Less, Say More

With Alfred's Clipboard History and Snippets features, there's no need to type the same URLs or responses over and over. Use the Clipboard History to locate any text, image or file you copied earlier and paste it again. Create your own snippets and type a short abbreviation to auto-expand them into a full 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 down on repetitive manual tasks. Link hotkeys, keywords and actions together to create your own workflows; There's no need to write a single line of code to create a workflow. Import workflows from the thousands our community of creators have shared.

Control Your Music

You're the boss. Boost your productivity by controlling your Mac using Alfred's deep integration with macOS. Swiftly take action on files and contacts, control your music player and dispatch System commands. Add some fun to your day; Turn 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.

Productivity at your Fingertips

Find apps & files

Launch apps and find files without lifting your fingers from the keyboard.

Search the web

Search your favourite websites with default and custom search keywords.

Calculate

Perform quick maths calculations and copy the result to your clipboard.

Spell & Define

Check your spelling or swiftly find the definition of a new word.

System Commands

Sleep your Mac, empty Trash, activate your screensaver and more with keywords.

Quick Look

Tap the Shift key 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.

Usage Stats

See just how addicted to Alfred you are with your own usage stats graph.

Clipboard History

Search and paste past copied text clips, images, file paths and colour hex codes.

Snippet Expansion

Save frequently used text clips as snippets, and auto-expand them anywhere.

Workflows

Create or import immensely powerful workflows to boost your productivity.

Hotkeys

Keep your hands on the keyboard and launch apps and files using hotkeys.

Navigation & Actions

Navigate your file directory and perform actions on results.

Control Music.app

Search your music collection, browse genres or play random albums in Music.app.

Recent Documents

Locate recently used files and documents for your favourite apps.

Theming

Customise Alfred's colours, fonts, sizes and more. Share your themes with friends.

Email

Find files with Alfred and attach them to a new email to a contact in a snap.

1Password

Get secure and fast access to websites with 1Password's bookmarks integration.

Default Searches

Use the default fallback searches or customise them for more efficient search.

Sync Settings

Keep your Alfred settings in sync across your Macs.

File Buffer

Search for files and add them to your buffer to take action on all of them at once.

Shell integration

Quickly open Terminal and run Shell commands from Alfred's command box.

View Contacts

Search your local Contacts and copy or take action on their details.

Getting Started

Comprehensive guides to get you started with workflows and new features.