Top 15 AppStarter Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

With this simple and effective tool you can collect your favorite Applications to categories and launch it with a plain mouse click.
You can activate the window by dragging the file to the menu bar icon. It is supports unlimited apps.

1. Hexy Launcher

Hexy Launcher Make your home screen a canvas of hexagonal tiles that adapts to your most important apps.Let Hexy organize your home-screen automatically, saving you time when searching for and launching apps. Hexy learns from the way you use apps in order to predict the app you’re most likely to want to......

2. RocketDock

RocketDock RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows......

3. Hoekey

Hoekey HoeKey is a lightweight portable application that helps you create user-defined hot key combinations that control a wide variety of Windows functions from launching programs to modifying windows.......

4. LaunchTab

LaunchTab [Last update was released on 05 Oct 2007, but you can download it from Softpedia.com on http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/LaunchTab.shtml ]LaunchTab is a freeware skinnable pop-up file launcher for Windows. LaunchTab has a graphical skinning feature that lets you create a "skin" toreplace the graphics for Tabs.LaunchTab uses simple file formats......

5. Advanced Launcher

Advanced Launcher Advanced Launcher is a completely free award-winning toolbar and tray launcher.It can show several fully customizable toolbars at a time. When you click a toolbar button it can either run an application (open a document) or show multilevel customizable menu. Menus can also show contents of folders (e.g. Programs folder......

6. Lightning Launcher

Lightning Launcher Lightning is a fast, light and extremely customizable home screen replacement for Android.And it can also be used as the most flexible lock screen replacement !Lightning Launcher eXtreme is the launcher of choice for people who wants a butter smooth, light on memory and tailor-made home screen replacement.This is the......

7. Docky

Docky Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker. Docky is fully integrated into the GNOME Desktop and features a no non-sense approach to configuration and usage. It just works.Some of Docky's amazing features include themes, plugins, 4 different hiding modes,......

8. Synapse

Synapse Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.......

9. Shortcut Customizer

Shortcut Customizer Shortcut Customizer is a tool to create shortcuts for files (image, music, movie), bookmarks and many others on your home screen. You can customize your original shortcut by changing its title and icon.Even better, you don't need to do any complicated operations as you can create shortcuts easily in just......

10. Leena Desktop

Leena Desktop The Leena Launcher brings the desktop experience to your Android device by extending Android with a native desktop user interface. Attach mouse and keyboard, connect a monitor (or TV) and you are ready to go!INCLUDES- a native file manager app- a native webbrowser app- a native launcher app- a native......

11. RK launcher

RK launcher RK Launcher is a free application that will allow the user to have a visually pleasing bar at the side of the screen that is used to quickly launch shortcuts. With support for themes, PNG's and ICO's and with smooth amazing animations, RK Launcher is a versatile and great taskbar......

12. True Launch Bar

True Launch Bar True Launch Bar is the unlimited version of the Free Launch Bar.True Launch Bar is a Superior replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in True Launch Bar. However, the True Launch Bar is fully compatible with Quick Launch because it uses......

13. Cairo-Dock

Cairo-Dock Cairo-Dock is an animated application launch bar for the desktop, comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock (for Windows).It is compatible with Compiz-Fusion, Beryl, Compiz and Xcompmgr, but it can also run without a composite manager (using fake transparency). Cairo-Dock can run under GNOME, KDE and......

14. Avant Window Navigator

Avant Window Navigator Avant Window Navigator (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list.......

15. Quick Search Box

Quick Search Box Google Quick Search Box is an open source search box that allows you to search data on your computer and across the web.This app is very experimental, but through it you will be able to see many of the areas we are exploring: contextual search, actions, and extensibility. It is......