For Alfred users: are you still using it despite the improvements in Spotlight?

[ignatius345]

Still using Alfred. I've got like 10 years of muscle memory at this point, plus just a crapload of special symbols (which I'm about to use later in this post 🙂). I've just generally gotten used to the exact commands I need, and when I've tried Spotlight lately it just seems like it's kind of lagging and spending too much time fetching extraneous stuff -- which also just adds to visual clutter.

To be fair, though, I really have not tried to use Spotlight consistently. I just remapped Spotlight to ⌘-⇧-space (Alfred is using the default ⌘-space) and will try to hit it more frequently to see if it works at all for me.

 

[nmt1900]

Alfred has lost fhe "feature parity" after Shortcuts were introduced as Alfred is "blind" what comes to Shortcuts without Powerpack. As Powerpack is a paid feature, comparison would not be equal when comparing app with paid feature to function integrated into OS which does not need paid feature to perform same function.

Alfred is shooting itself in a foot here. It is losing out to Spotlight in its' basic functionalities after 10+ years of use...

 

[ABuVA]

Using Alfred exclusively. No true benefit for me to use Spotlight.

 

[doogm]

I was using Alfred only for launching apps, so, no, I have stopped using Alfred and I'm trying to use Spotlight exclusively. So far everything is fine.

 

[cubbie5150]

I still use Alfred out of habit, even though I basically only use it as a app/file launcher; also use it for the rare times I want to restart or shutdown my MBP. I know I could probably figure out how to call the restart/shutdown commands via Spotlight, but given it works as I want it to via Alfred, haven't taken the time to bother.

Several months into 2026, and what I posted late 2025 remains true. I'm too lazy to find the Spotlight shortcuts for things like restarting and shutting down my MBP (shortcuts that are in Alfred by default). Thus, Alfred remains on my machine and I keep using it for simple things. Spotlight is the thing that gets no active use by me.

 

[MisterSavage]

Still 100% Alfred. The tools like snippets are something I use daily.

 

[th0masp]

Alfred as a launcher, Spotlight for filesearch. Habits are strong with this one. 🙂