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When I open a new MacBook, Alfred is the first app I install. It’s so ingrained in me that MacOS will be different without it.
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You're still using Spotlight in 2025? Seriously? Alfred is superior and faster than Spotlight. It's a good app and has a lot of functions. I always recommend Alfred as a Spotlight replacement.
For me, Alfred is a tool that at this point is essential to the Mac OS operating system. It would be really hard to go back to a life without the shortcuts and functionality it enables.
Alfred is fast and highly configurable, enabling me to move as fast as possible.
I'd find macOS unbearable without Alfred. It's easy to forget what "clean" macOS was like, because they've been shipping features that replace or complement what was a separate app, back in the day. I use this instead of Spotlight. I use it with a Pomodoro timer script that someone wrote and I just grabbed in <5m. I use it for all my keyboard shortcuts, because it's much faster than cmd+tabbing or anything similar. I use it for expansions for boilerplate code and LaTeX. I'm sure there are other, fancier features, but I don't use those. Alfred 4 was worth the money. The upgrade to 5 wasn't super worth it for me, but I did so to support the creators anyway.
