Alfred 5 Powerpack 5.5 (2257) RC

Alfred is a productivity app for macOS that helps you get things done faster. It can be used to launch apps, find files, and control your Mac with hotkeys. Alfred also has a powerful workflow engine that can be used to automate tasks.

Features:

  • App Launcher: Alfred can be used to launch apps quickly and easily. You can type the name of the app you want to launch, or you can use a hotkey.
  • File Search: Alfred can be used to find files quickly and easily. You can type the name of the file you want to find, or you can use a hotkey.
  • System Control: Alfred can be used to control your Mac with hotkeys. You can use hotkeys to adjust the volume, put your Mac to sleep, and more.
  • Workflows: Alfred has a powerful workflow engine that can be used to automate tasks. You can use workflows to do things like send emails, create notes, and more.


What’s New

Version 5.5:

New Workflow UI Components for rich interaction with Alfred
  • Grid View: With the new Grid View object, show results image and file results in a satisfyingly visual layout!
    • Dynamically feed in a list of files from the previous workflow object or use JSON to script your input
    • Customise the column count and image aspect
    • Include an optional search field to filter the grid results
  • Text View: A super flexible, editable Markdown and plain text view, expanding your Workflow abilities immensely. Take simple notes or create a fully interactive text editor!
    • Populate results from a workflow object, a script for dynamic results or a file source
    • Make the text selectable, or editable within Alfred, with optional continuous spell checking mode when editable
    • Parse the results as Markdown: Include images, links, code blocks, lists, headers and more within your Markdown content
    • Dynamically specify footer text and loading text, including hotkey modifier hints
  • Image View: Browse images in a clean, automatically sized view within Alfred.
    • Preview a single image from Alfred's results
    • Preview multiple results with a pagination guide at the bottom and use the arrows to navigate
    • Stack the view, so it's easy to go back to Alfred results with Esc
    • ⌘O opens the current file in its default app
    • Use numbers ⌘0 to maximise the window and ⌘9 to Zoom to Fit
  • PDF View: Browse your PDFs in Alfred
    • Select and copy text from the PDF
    • Change the page display via the right-click context menu to show a single page or double page side by side
    • Navigate through your PDF, and zoom in and out using hotkeys
    • Stack views on top of Alfred results to quickly go back to them with Esc
Universal Actions
  • New "View in Alfred" Universal Action
    • Takes advantage of rich new views to quickly view images, Markdown, text, pdfs
    • use ⌘0 to dynamically enlarge the content viewer
    • Multi select images, view them in Alfred, then use  or  to quickly switch between them
  • Improve Workflow Universal Action integration
    • Fix resolution of variables in keywords when matching Keyword and Script Filter actions in Universal Actions view
    • New global option on canvas popup menu to toggle treating newly added Inputs and Script Filters as Universal Actions
  • Update Recent Documents Universal Action to correctly load recents on macOS Sonoma
    • Additionally add to the recent documents list from Alfred's internal knowledge
More Workflow Improvements
  • Workflow Editor now resolves keyword variables on input objects
    • Renders in italic to differentiate from fixed keywords
    • Globally disabled and enabled in canvas popup menu options
  • On running a Workflow, show clickable macOS Notification when Automation Tasks are missing
    • Clicking the notification will open the "Update Automation Tasks" preferences sheet
  • New Workflow JSON output key to cache script output for high performance
    • Includes loose reload mode to show expired results while loading new results
    • Cache is cleared for specific workflows on using 'reload workflow' AppleScript
  • Added new "Unstack View" option to Hide Alfred workflow object
    • Allows for graceful unstacking of stackable views such as the new Image View
  • Added new Number Slider to Workflow user configuration options
    • Configure for number range, visual markers and limiting markers (e.g. 10 steps)
    • Automatically switches min / max if configured incorrectly
  • Correctly return an error when calling a Workflow External Trigger externally, and the workflow needs user configuration
  • Fix word truncation in title bar of Workflow debugger
  • Fix Workflow window veto close logic when using result mod overrides, to prevent default connection veto from being used
  • Holding ⌥ on the Workflow Gallery menu in the Workflow Editor will now give a "Fix Tools" option to fix broken Homebrew / Xcode instances
  • Tweak Text Field behaviour in Workflow User Configuration for consistent behaviour
  • Fix sizing of generated Workflow user config to match the preview size
  • Fix initial field focus in Show Alfred Workflow object configuration
  • Allow Automation Task framework more control over workflow stream on task error
General Improvements
  • Overhaul the top level window / view framework to allow for the dynamic heights and widths of the new Workflow UI Components
    • Rewrite Alfred window location and sizing logic to better constrain to display height
  • New custom Markdown renderer for Workflow "About" and Change Log
  • Prevent text from slightly overflowing selection on right side of Alfred Window input fields in macOS 15+
  • Accessibility
    • Updated Large Type window to work correctly with VoiceOver
    • Improved Dialog Conditional Workflow Object configuration VoiceOver
    • Fixed System Command preferences to better read components
  • Fix internal search to correctly return Workflow results when there is a manually edited invalid info.plist
  • When deleting a workflow or snippet, the name is now shown in the confirmation dialog
  • Update theme editor background to only show system backgrounds which are viewable
  • Fix theme options position view from clipping tiny Alfred outside of the bounds
Changes from Beta 1 to Beta 2
  • Add "View in Alfred" as new default result modifier action in Advanced prefs
  • Add optional knowledge based sorting to the Grid View, defaulted to enabled
  • Add spell checking options to the Text View
  • Add ctrl+n/p navigation in Grid View
  • Add text size options to the Text View including global sizing options
  • Tweaks to Markdown Rendering
  • Fix rendering issue when jumping Alfred Window between displays with an over-sized Alfred window
  • Fix Text View crash after confusing Undo Manager with dynamic script population
  • Add display mode options to PDF View, with Automatic mode which remembers the view setting on the PDF View popup
  • A number of code clean-ups and performance tweaks; Gotta keep Alfred lean! :)
  • Fix a few spelling mistakes


Compatibility

macOS 10.14 or later
Apple Silicon or Intel Core processor


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2 Responses

  1. 3www says:

    hello! has anyone started having issues with alfred recently?
    when trying to rebuild macOS metadata, i get this issue:

    Reindexing Error – MacAlfred’s app bundle has been altered, unable to run reindexing script.

    then, plenty of issues related to permissions + workflows.

    :/

    would be super glad if anyone could help me!

  2. mozsteve says:

    Hi, both links are down in india, could you share mega link please

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