Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt.
It comes with a rich set of built-in modules and can be easily extended using the Typescript SDK.
Drawing inspiration from the Raycast launcher, Vicinae provides a mostly compatible extension API, allowing reuse of many existing Raycast extensions with minimal modification.
Vicinae is designed for developers and power users who want fast, keyboard-first access to common system actions.
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We can't show everything in the demo, far from it, so please go read the docs!
✏️ Features
- Launch apps
- File search
- Emoji picker
- Calculator with history (multiple backends available)
- Clipboard history
- Quickly open links using any app (can be used to set up web search)
- Focus open windows
dmenucompatibility mode- Theming system
- Fallback commands
- React/Typescript extension SDK, allowing to build complex search-focused UIs
- Global extension store (since v0.16.0)
- Raycast compatibility support
→ Includes access to the official Raycast extension store, with one-click installs directly from within the launcher
→ Many extensions may not work yet due to missing APIs or general Linux incompatibilities (improvements in progress)
Breaking changes
Until we reach version 1 you should expect breaking changes from release to release. Watch the changelogs to learn about them.
We try to not introduce breaking changes that result in a definitive loss of data, but you should expect to have to redo your configuration from time to time.
📚 Documentation
For more details on installation, usage, configuration, extension development, and contributing, visit docs.vicinae.com.
A few more sick screenshots :)
