Quicksilver vs. Spotlight

Posted on March 23, 2007 by Josh Kenzer

I think some of my geek cred should be revoked. I’ve been using a Mac since 2003 and just now learned that Quicksilver beats the hell out of Spotlight. I never honestly tried QS before although I knew about it. Instead, I believe that Spotlight was sufficient and worked well. Not true.

  • Speed: QS is very fast – maybe at the expense of RAM. Spotlight is very slow.
  • Functionality: QS can open apps, find files and perform Apple scripts. Spotlight only searches for files.
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  • While I do love QuickSilver, I wanted to point out that you can indeed use Spotlight for opening applications.

    Hit Command-Space to bring up the Spotlight quick-search bar, type the first few letters of the app, ie: "term" for Terminal, and then hit Command-Return, which opens up the top hit automatically. Voila, the terminal should launch.
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