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ALTRun

A lightweight, open-source Alfred-style launcher for Windows.

  • Completely free
  • Windows
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

ALTRun is an application launcher, available on Windows.

Features described in its GitHub repository and on its official website: themes and dark mode.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “A lightweight, open-source Alfred-style launcher for Windows.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “22 built-in themes that can follow the Windows light / dark mode; plain JSON settings.” — official website, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of ALTRun is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 10 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub zhugecaomao/ALTRun (GPL-3.0-only)

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