AppRocket is a more or less exact copy of LaunchBar (Link ) — something that was discovered very closely following AppRocket’s launch (no pun intended). Reportedly CandyLabs — the company behind AppRocket — were in talks with Objective Development — the company behind LaunchBar — to work together; however, I haven’t heard of any developments, and there was no such acknowledgments prior to the hoo-haa. Seeming as how AppRocket is described as an alternative to QS — which it is — I thought I’d mention this as well. I have no particular experience with either of these three apps besides having tried them, but this sort of behavior by CandyLabs sounds poorly thought-out at best.

Jesper

LaunchBar for Mac is quite similar and made in Austria. ;-)

VividVisions

On Windows I tend to prefer the look and simplicity of Link Colibri to AppRocket. I’ve had a few tiny issues but the latest release (10a) has fixed them all for me.

Patrick Cavit

Wenn man unter Mac OS X einfach nur Programme starten will, ist Namely das allerbeste (weil schnellste, schlankeste und kleinste): Link

Johannes Becker

Looks nifty, although I do bear a slight grudge against background applications, having a weakling computer and all. Nevertheless, I’ll give it a try, for curiosities sake. And if it’s usefull enough I’ll keep it. I find a lot of applications like this are more “you want one of these” not “one of these are really handy and you’ll use them every day”.

Dave

I like Quicksilver very much — it serves me very well…

Julian Schrader

For a time, I used a Windows machine extensively. After tasting the goodness of Quicksilver a little, I went out in search of a Quicksilver clone for PC and found this. I don’t think the software has been updated in a rather long time. It’s not as elegant in function or style as Quicksilver, but it does a good job. My two cents.

Brendan

Wasn’t this the original idea of the Google Desktop Search?

ZicklePop

there was a write-up concerning approcket a few months back on <a href="http://uneasysilence.com">uneasysilence</a>. utilizing the foxylicious firefox extension users could access their del.icio.us bookmarks just like any other file on their windows computers. the write-up was right <a href="http://www.uneasysilence.com/how-to-quicklaunch-applicationsfilesdelicious-on-windows/">here</a>.

.derek

I installed AppRocket on my Windows-machine today: It works as promised. It is indeed an exact copy of LaunchBar, which I find superior to Quicksilver, as it is more simple to handle. I bought LaunchBar after having used it for one day. I wouldn’t have bought Quicksilver (it’s free anyway). I might even buy AppRocket, as it feels very solid. The idea behind these launchers is all the same. So maybe you can’t really blame anybody for copying a proven concept.

Hans

Give Launchy a try: Link I tried various Quicksilver clones on Windows and that’s the one I kept. And it’s free!

Oliver Regelmann

Cool. Thanks!

Fernando

Oh Magellen where art thou now? grin

WD MIlner

Wrote about this in <a href="http://www.richardault.com/2004/02/23/candy-labs-approcket/">2004 on my blog</a>. Approcket was super useful then, although app launching is pretty well covered in OSX now. Dustin and crew are solid developers, worked with them at Napster back in 2001. Haven’t seen much of them for a couple of years though. Hoping for some new apps this year!

Richard Ault

SlickRun is another free PC version. Barebones but does the job. Link -----

Tom Walat