Wox lets you quick start programs and local files without leaving your keyboard, plus automatic sorting based on usage. Wox is free for use and open-sourced. Be more productive ever since.

Features

Find Applications & Files

Quick Start program and local files without leaving your keyboard, automatic sorting based on usage.

Quick-Search the Web

Search the web by prefixing your search with keywords like wiki, g.

Add your own the web searches in Wox's setting window to make them meet your daily needs.

Plugin

Making a plugin for Wox is easy and Wox supports plugins written by CSharp,Python,NodeJS,Golang and so on. Create your own plugin and share with others now.

Theming

Match Wox to your desktop. Create your own themes by choosing colours,fonts, sizes and more.

Create your own theme by using theme builder now.

What's New

This stable release rolls up the v2.1.2 beta work with additional Theme Editor, Linux Wayland, Caps Lock hotkey, update, and stability improvements.

Add

  • [Theme Editor] Add a theme editor with live launcher preview, color controls, save-as and overwrite flows, platform-specific variants, and wallpaper-aware previews for customizing Wox themes #4421 #4415
  • [Window Manager Plugin] Add a Window Manager plugin to move, resize, minimize, maximize, restore, and send the active window between displays from launcher commands.
  • [Selection] Add Space Quick Look on Windows so users can preview a selected file from File Explorer or open/save dialogs by pressing Space.
  • [Result Drag] Add native file drag export for launcher results, allowing file-backed results from Clipboard and plugins to be dragged directly to folders or other apps.
  • [Update] Add release channels and channel switching so users can stay on stable releases or opt into beta prereleases.
  • [Hotkey] Add Caps Lock combo hotkeys and a Hotkey Overview preview so users can assign Caps Lock-based shortcuts and inspect registered Wox shortcuts. This feature is not available on Linux due to platform limitations.
  • [Folder] Add favorite folders with add, edit, delete, and direct global-search workflows.
  • [System] Add Task View and platform-specific volume control commands.

Improve

  • [Linux] Improve native Wayland support with portal-backed global hotkeys, portal clipboard support, GTK backend selection, window positioning and resize handling, desktop-entry startup guidance, and Wayland-specific settings availability #4451
  • [Preview] Expand file preview support to code, executable, image, markdown, PDF, shortcuts, video, zip, Office, audio, font, calendar/contact, delimited data, RDP, folder, and media files, with tag-style preview metadata and a wider default preview panel.
  • [Media Player] Improve Windows media session integration so users can view the current track, see artwork, and control playback with play, pause, next, and previous actions from Wox.
  • [Explorer] Improve open/save dialog workflows with type-to-search hints, faster dialog path detection, quick folder jumps, and selection highlighting inside the active dialog.
  • [Query Hotkey] Improve query hotkey setup with a dedicated dialog, names, tooltips, presets documentation, variable editing, and cleaner hotkey availability checks.
  • [Hotkey] Improve hotkey recording, display, and Caps Lock handling across platforms, including better shortcut chip layout and stale modifier cleanup.
  • [Search] Improve fuzzy matching for short text and Pinyin input with better alignment and incomplete-syllable handling.
  • [Clipboard] Improve file clipboard records with support for multiple file paths, draggable file payloads, and favorites-aware query behavior.
  • [Shell] Improve shell commands with background execution, richer command history metadata, elapsed-time notifications, and safer Windows open behavior.
  • [Update] Improve manual update checks and update previews so release-channel actions refresh after checking.
  • [Settings] Improve settings search focus when opening settings.
  • [WebView] Improve embedded preview navigation with custom mouse button handling and more reliable URL and HTML session handling.
  • [Logging] Improve log file naming, rollover, retention, and bug report guidance so users can find and upload wox.log more easily #4438 #4446

Fix

  • [UI] Fix Windows GPU recovery handling so Wox can restart the UI instead of leaving a blank window after GPU recovery #4437
  • [Linux] Fix tray icon menus not responding on Linux.
  • [Shell] Fix Windows open and reveal actions to use native Shell APIs, avoiding blocking launches and preventing crafted file paths from being interpreted as commands.
  • [Hotkey] Fix arrow-key hotkey recognition and stale Windows modifier state during hotkey recording.
  • [Screenshot] Fix permission-denied capture feedback with localized notifications #4433
  • [Launcher] Fix resize and focus edge cases during view transitions and Windows deactivation.