Vicinae (pronounced "vih-SIN-ay") is a high-performance, native launcher for your desktop — built with C++ and Qt.

It includes a set of built-in modules, and extensions can be developed quickly using fully server-side React/TypeScript — with no browser or Electron involved.

Inspired by the popular 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 — without unnecessary overhead.

We can't show everything in the demo, far from it, so please go read the docs!

• Start and retrieve information about installed applications
• File indexing with full-text search across millions of files — available via the file search module or directly from root search
• Smart emoji picker with support for custom indexing keywords
• Fully fledged inline calculator with history (multiple backends available)
• Encrypted clipboard history tracker with full-text search across all copied content
• Shortcuts — quickly open anything using dynamic links
• Direct window manager integration (e.g. copy content directly to the focused window)
• Built-in theming system with light and dark palettes
  → Custom themes can be added via config (see docs)
• Raycast compatibility module
  → 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)

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.

For more details on installation, usage, configuration, extension development, and contributing, visit docs.vicinae.com.