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The launcher your Linux desktop deserves.

Name: Backslash
Author: Backslash

Backslash is a fast, open-source app launcher for Linux, in the spirit of Raycast and Alfred. Apps, files, clipboard, snippets and your whole dev stack, one keystroke away. Review pull requests, find the crashing pod or decode a JWT without leaving the keyboard.

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Why you'll like it

Fast like a keystroke. Native like your desktop.

One small binary that stays in the background and opens instantly, on Wayland and X11. Your apps, your icon theme, your light or dark mode.

4.5 MB the whole app

Instant

One Rust + GTK4 binary that waits in the background. No Electron, no warm-up.

GNOMEKDE PlasmaHyprlandSwayniriX11FlatpakSnap

Made for Linux

Flatpak and Snap apps, your icon theme, your accent color. Works on every desktop you'd actually use.

[permissions]
net = ["api.github.com"]
run = ["gh"]
# everything else: denied

Sandboxed extensions

Each one says what it may access. You approve once, the sandbox enforces it.

Built for developers

Extensions in TypeScript with no build step. Every command runs from the terminal too.

Useful from day one

Clipboard history with images, file search with previews and a window switcher for every desktop, built in.

MITLicense

0Telemetry

0Accounts

Yours

Open source, no paywall. Plain config files that belong in your dotfiles.

Scripts in any language

Any script is a command

Drop a script in ~/.config/backslash/scripts/, describe it in a comment, and search for it.

Snippets & quicklinks

Type sig to paste your signature, with {date}, {time} and {clipboard} filled in. Type gh tokio to search GitHub.

The store

325 extensions, one keystroke away.

GitHub, Kubernetes, Linear, Docker, Home Assistant, Spotify and many more. Install them from the built-in store or with backslash install.

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ActivityWatchWhere your time went today and this week, by app, website and category, from your local ActivityWatch, compared with yesterday

AIAsk questions, fix, rewrite, summarize, translate and explain text, with Claude, OpenAI, Mistral, Groq, OpenRouter or a local Ollama

AI UsageWhat Anthropic, OpenAI and OpenRouter cost you this month and today, by model, with a monthly budget and a tray warning

Air QualityAir quality now and for the next days in any city: European or US AQI, fine particles, ozone, NO₂, UV and pollen, with health advice and the best hours to go out, from Open-Meteo

Airtable, NocoDB & BaserowSearch the records of your Airtable, NocoDB and Baserow tables with every field in the preview, and add a record with a form built from the table's fields

Android DevicesYour Android phones over USB or Wi-Fi with model, version and battery: mirror the screen with scrcpy, take screenshots, install APKs and manage apps

AnimeYour AniList or MyAnimeList watching list with new episodes and the next airing countdown, mark episodes watched, this week's airing schedule and anime / manga search

AnkiYour Anki decks with today's new, learning and review counts, quick card creation and sync, through AnkiConnect

AnsibleYour Ansible projects with their playbooks, plays, inventories, groups and hosts; run, check with diff or limit a playbook, SSH and ping hosts in your terminal

API CollectionsRun the requests of your Bruno collections, .http/.rest files and Hurl files: environments, variables, formatted responses and curl

AppImagesThe AppImages in your folders with their version and size; run them, add them to the app menu, move or trash them

ArchivesLook inside and extract ZIP, 7z, RAR and TAR archives copied in your file manager, and compress files and folders, with a password if you want

Argo CDArgo CD applications with their sync status and health, out of sync and degraded first; sync, hard refresh, roll back and open them

ArtworksSearch the collections of The Met and the Art Institute of Chicago with pictures, artist, date, medium and rights, and a public-domain artwork of the day

arXivSearch arXiv papers by words, author or category, follow new submissions in your fields, read abstracts, open PDFs and copy BibTeX or citations

AsanaYour Asana tasks by due date and your projects; complete, reschedule and create tasks

Aspect RatioRatios and megapixels of a size, the missing width or height, crops and letterboxes, fit and fill, screen pixel density, and common resolutions

AudioMicrophones, the volume of each application playing or recording, and EasyEffects presets on PipeWire or PulseAudio

AURSearch the AUR with votes, popularity and out-of-date flags, read PKGBUILDs, install with paru or yay, and see which AUR packages need updates

Aurora ForecastCan you see the northern lights tonight? Kp index now and for 3 days, solar wind, the OVATION aurora model at your place, darkness and clouds, from NOAA SWPC

AuthenticatorTwo-factor (TOTP) codes for your accounts, with secrets kept in the system keyring

Aviation WeatherMETAR and TAF for any airport, decoded in plain words, with the flight category, wind, visibility, clouds and QNH, from aviationweather.gov

AWSSwitch AWS profiles, start and stop EC2 instances, open SSM sessions, browse S3 buckets and tail CloudWatch logs with the aws CLI

AzureSwitch Azure subscriptions, start, stop and SSH into virtual machines, and restart or tail the logs of App Service web apps with the az CLI

Azure DevOpsAzure DevOps pull requests to review or created by you with votes and policies, your open work items with state changes, and pipeline runs failing first with rerun

Backupsrestic, Borg and Déjà Dup backups at a glance: how old the last one is, snapshots with hosts and paths, back up now or browse files

Batch RenameRename the files copied in your file manager with find and replace, case, numbering, date taken, prefix and suffix: see every new name first, and undo

Bike ShareLive bikes, e-bikes and free docks at your favorite and nearest bike-share stations: Vélib', Vélo'v, V'Lille, Naolib, Citi Bike, Bicing or any GBFS feed

BitbucketBitbucket Cloud pull requests to review or opened by you, with builds and approvals, your issues and repository search

BoardGameGeekSearch board games with their players, playing time, weight, rating and rank, and see your BoardGameGeek collection, wishlist and logged plays

BooksSearch Open Library for books with covers, authors, editions and subjects, copy ISBNs and citations, and keep a reading list

Boot EntriesReboot into Windows or another boot entry just once, from systemd-boot, GRUB or the EFI boot menu, or straight into the firmware setup

Bottles & WineRun the Windows programs of your Bottles and Wine prefixes, open winecfg, winetricks and Wine's tools, or run an .exe

BrowserHistory, bookmarks and open tabs of Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Chromium, Edge and Vivaldi

BudgetYour Firefly III or Actual Budget at a glance: account balances, this month's spending against your budgets, recent transactions, and a quick expense form

Bundle SizeMinified and gzipped size of any npm package version, install size, download time on 3G and 4G, dependencies and lighter alternatives

CaffeineKeep the computer awake for a while, or until you turn it off, even with Backslash closed

CalculatorMath as you type in the search: + - * / % ^, parentheses, sqrt, sin, ln, pi and implicit multiplication like 2pi or 3(4+1)

CalendarYour upcoming events from Google, Outlook, iCloud, Fastmail or Proton calendars, with one-key meeting joins

CalibreSearch your Calibre library by title, author, series or tag with covers and descriptions; open a book, copy a citation, add copied files, export

Can I UseBrowser support for web platform features from caniuse.com, with versions, partial support and notes

Cast to TVCast a copied link, a YouTube video or a file from your file manager to a Chromecast or a DLNA TV, and control what plays: pause, seek, volume, stop

CertificatesInspect the TLS chain of a server or a certificate file, list local certificates by expiry with their names, issuer, key and fingerprints, and make new ones with mkcert

Checksums & SignaturesSHA-256, SHA-512, SHA-1, MD5 and BLAKE2 of the files copied in your file manager, checked against SHA256SUMS files, a copied hash and GPG signatures

CI PipelinesRecent CircleCI, Buildkite, Woodpecker and Jenkins runs in one list, failing and running first, with branch, commit and duration; rerun or cancel them

ClickUpYour ClickUp tasks across workspaces with their status, priority and due date; change status and create tasks

Cloud CostsMonth-to-date spend and forecast of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and Hetzner Cloud, by service and by day, with a budget warning in the background

Cloud ServersYour Hetzner Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode and Scaleway servers in one list with status, IPs, region and price; SSH, power on, shut down and reboot

CloudflareManage Cloudflare zones and DNS records, purge the cache and follow Pages deployments

CocktailsFind cocktails by name or ingredient, see what you can make with the bottles you have, recipes in ml or oz, a random pick and favorites, from TheCocktailDB

Code ProjectsRecent projects of VS Code, VSCodium, Cursor, Zed and JetBrains IDEs, plus your git folders

Code SearchSearch public code on GitHub with grep.app or Sourcegraph: matching lines with context, filters by language, repository and path

CodebergYour Codeberg pull requests with checks, issues, repositories and notifications

Coding Agent SessionsYour recent Claude Code, Codex and Aider sessions with their project, prompts and last answer, resumed in a terminal in one keystroke

Color PickerPick a color anywhere on the screen, keep a history, and convert colors between HEX, RGB, HSL and OKLCH

Commit HelperWrite Conventional Commits messages with scopes learned from your history, gitmoji, and commit the staged changes

Compose StacksDocker and Podman Compose projects with the state of each service: up, down, restart, pull, rebuild and logs in a terminal

ContactsYour CardDAV or vCard contacts with emails, phones, addresses and upcoming birthdays: write, call, copy

Container RegistriesSearch Docker Hub and Quay.io images and browse tags on Docker Hub, GHCR and Quay with sizes, digests and platforms

ContainersDocker and Podman containers: start, stop, logs

Containers & VMsEnter distrobox and toolbx containers, and start, stop or open your libvirt virtual machines

CoolifyApplications, services and databases of your Coolify and Dokploy instances with status, domains and last deployment; deploy, restart, stop, logs and deployment history

CoordinatesConvert coordinates between decimal degrees, DMS, UTM, MGRS, geohash and Plus Codes, open them on a map, and get the distance, bearing and midpoint of two points

CountdownsCount down to vacations, launches and birthdays, and pin the next one to the root search

CountriesEvery country and territory with its capital, population, area, languages, currencies, calling code, domain, driving side, time zones and neighbors

Cron HelperExplain cron and systemd calendar expressions, see their next runs and convert between them

CryptoCryptocurrency prices, 24 h and 7 day changes, market caps and a watchlist from CoinGecko, and the value of your holdings

Currency ConverterCurrency conversions as you type in the search, at the European Central Bank's daily rates (via Frankfurter, cached for 12 hours)

DatabasesOpen your PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and Redis connections in a terminal, check that they answer and copy their URLs

DatadogDatadog monitors in alert first with mute and unmute, dashboard search and incidents with their severity and state, on every Datadog site

Date CalculatorDays until a date, date plus or minus days, weeks and months, working days with French public holidays, ISO weeks, in English or French

DeepL & LanguageToolTranslate text with DeepL and fix grammar and spelling with LanguageTool, from what you type, select or copy

Default AppsSee and change your default browser, mail app, file manager, viewers, players, editor and terminal

Dependency UpdatesOpen Renovate and Dependabot pull requests across your GitHub repositories with package, versions, semver jump and checks; approve, squash-merge or ask for a rebase

DeploymentsRecent Vercel deployments and Netlify deploys with their status, commit, branch and build time; open, copy, redeploy, cancel, build logs

Desktop SettingsSearch every settings panel of GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce or Cinnamon in English or French, and flip quick toggles

Dev EnvironmentsYour GitHub Codespaces, Coder workspaces and DevPod workspaces in one list with their state: start, stop, open in VS Code or over SSH

Dev ReferenceHTTP status codes, MIME types, ports, ASCII, HTML entities, key codes, signals, exit codes and a chmod calculator

Dev UtilsEncode, decode, hash, convert and generate developer values right from the search bar

DictionaryDefinitions, examples, pronunciation and synonyms in English and French from Wiktionary, and quick translations

Disk HealthSMART health, temperature, wear and errors of your drives, Btrfs scrubs and ZFS pools; start a self-test or a scrub

Disk UsageFind what fills your disk: biggest folders and files, caches, trash, logs and containers, with cleanups

DisplayScreen brightness with presets, night light, and your monitors' resolution, refresh rate and scale

Disposable EmailA throwaway email address from mail.tm: read incoming mail and copy the verification code or open the confirmation link in one keystroke

DocsSearch developer documentation: DevDocs, tldr pages, the Arch Wiki and your man pages

DomainsYour Porkbun, Gandi, OVHcloud and Namecheap domains by expiry with their auto-renew, and their DNS records: add, edit and delete

DotfilesYour chezmoi, yadm, bare git or GNU Stow dotfiles: what changed, diffs, edit, apply or re-add, commit and push

DownloadsRecent downloads with previews and where they came from; open, copy, move, rename or trash them

DrivesMount, open, unmount and safely eject USB sticks, SD cards and internal drives

Duplicate FilesFind identical files in a folder, biggest waste first, and keep the newest or oldest copy, the others going to the trash

EarthquakesRecent earthquakes worldwide and near you from the USGS, with magnitude, depth, distance, tsunami flag, PAGER alert and felt reports

ElasticsearchElasticsearch and OpenSearch: cluster health, indices by size, aliases, mappings, and a quick query of any index

ElectricityEDF Tempo color of today and tomorrow with the red and white days left, RTE EcoWatt grid alerts and France's day-ahead power prices by the hour

Emoji & SymbolsSearch emoji and symbols by name and copy them

EncryptEncrypt the files or text you copied with age or GPG for your recipients or a passphrase, and decrypt .age and .gpg files, keeping secrets out of clipboard history

Env FilesThe .env files of your projects with their variables masked, the keys missing from .env.example, and copy or export them

Error TrackingUnresolved errors from GlitchTip (hosted or on your network), Rollbar, Honeybadger and Bugsnag in one list, newest first: events, users, environment; resolve or ignore them

EspansoSearch your espanso matches with a preview of each expansion; paste them, fill in forms, add, edit and delete matches, start, toggle and restart espanso

Fake DataRealistic fake people, addresses, companies, IBANs, SIRET, test cards and more in English or French, as JSON, CSV or SQL, offline and seedable

Feature FlagsLaunchDarkly, Unleash, Flagsmith and GrowthBook flags in one list with their state in each environment; toggle them, with a confirmation in production

Figma & PenpotYour Figma and Penpot design files by name, recently modified first, with thumbnails; open them in the browser or the desktop app, copy links

File ShareShare copied files or text as a public 0x0.st link, an end-to-end encrypted PrivateBin paste, or a direct croc transfer, and keep track of what you shared

FirewallState, default policies and rules of ufw or firewalld; allow or block a port, delete a rule, turn the firewall on or off

Flatpak AppsBrowse installed Flatpak apps and runtimes, see their size and permissions, run or uninstall them

Flight TrackerThe aircraft flying above you with altitude, speed, heading and where to look, and any flight by callsign or transponder, live from the OpenSky Network

Fly.io & RailwayFly.io apps and Railway services with their status, latest deploy and URL; open, logs, restart and deploy history

Focus ModeFocus sessions that silence notifications, block distracting sites and set your Slack status, then undo it all on time, even with Backslash closed

FontsBrowse installed font families with previews, copy their CSS and install new ones

Food FactsLook up food products by name or barcode on Open Food Facts: Nutri-Score, NOVA, Eco-Score, allergens, additives and nutrition facts per 100 g

FrigateYour Frigate NVR cameras with their latest snapshot and recent events by label; play clips, keep events, turn detection on or off

Fuel PricesThe cheapest fuel stations around you or any French town, from the government's live price data: price, distance, freshness, services and opening hours

Game DealsPC game deals from 30 stores with savings, Metacritic and Steam reviews, free games on Epic and GamerPower giveaways, and a wishlist that tells you when a price drops

GamesLaunch your installed Steam, Lutris and Heroic (Epic, GOG, Amazon) games, with cover art, play time, size and ProtonDB ratings

GerritGerrit changes waiting for your review, needing your attention or yours, with Code-Review and Verified votes; copy the Change-Id or the checkout command

GIFsSearch Tenor and Giphy in a grid, trending when nothing is typed: copy the GIF link, or copy it as a file or an image to paste in any chat

GistsYour GitHub gists with their code in the preview: copy, paste, create from the clipboard, delete

Git ReposYour local git repositories with branch, changes, ahead/behind and last commit, plus fetch, pull and stash

Gitea & ForgejoPull requests to review, issues, repositories and notifications of your Gitea or Forgejo server, self-hosted or Codeberg-like

GitHubPull requests with their checks and reviews, your issues, and repository search

GitHub ActionsWorkflow runs of your repositories, failing and running first, with jobs, steps and logs; re-run or cancel them

Gitignore TemplatesBrowse github/gitignore templates, preview and combine them, and add them to a project's .gitignore without duplicate lines

GitLabMerge requests with pipelines and approvals, your issues, projects and pipelines on gitlab.com (self-hosted instances are not supported)

GNOME ExtensionsEnable, disable, configure or uninstall your GNOME Shell extensions, and install new ones from extensions.gnome.org

Google CloudSwitch gcloud projects, SSH into Compute Engine VMs and follow Cloud Run services, their URLs and logs

Google Drive & TasksSearch Google Drive and manage Google Tasks with your own Google sign-in

GPU ModeSwitch hybrid graphics between integrated, hybrid and discrete, see what runs on the discrete GPU, and start apps on it

GrafanaSearch Grafana dashboards and follow firing alerts; silence an alert for an hour or a day, expire silences

GraphQL ExplorerBrowse a GraphQL API's queries, mutations and types with their arguments, copy query skeletons and run queries with variables

HabitsTrack daily and weekly habits: check in today, streaks and a heatmap of the last months, with optional Habitica sync

Hacker News & RSSTop, new, best, Ask and Show HN stories with their comments, and your RSS and Atom feeds with unread tracking

HelmHelm releases across namespaces with their chart, status and revision; values, history, rollback and uninstall, in the current kubectl context

HighlightsSearch your highlights from Readwise, Kindle's My Clippings.txt and Hypothes.is, and copy them with their source and citation

Home AssistantLights, switches, covers, climate, media players, scenes, scripts and sensors of your Home Assistant: toggle, dim, set the temperature, run scenes

Hosts FileBrowse /etc/hosts, add, edit, enable, disable or remove entries and block domains, keeping its comments and layout

HTTP ClientSend HTTP requests from the launcher and read the status, timing, headers and formatted body

Hugging FaceSearch Hugging Face models, datasets and Spaces with downloads, likes, licenses and model cards

Icon SearchSearch Lucide, Material Symbols, Tabler, Heroicons, Phosphor and Simple Icons, and copy them as SVG, JSX or data URI

Image GenerationGenerate images from a prompt with OpenAI gpt-image-1, Replicate, fal.ai or your own ComfyUI, saved to ~/Pictures, with a history of every generation

Image ToolsResize, convert, compress, rotate and clean the metadata of pictures copied in your file manager

ImmichSearch your Immich photos by what is in them, browse albums and today's memories; download originals and share links

Internet RadioSearch 50,000 internet radio stations by name, genre or country and play them in the background with mpv, ffplay or VLC

ISS TrackerWhere the International Space Station is now, over which country or ocean, and its next passes you can see from your place, computed from its orbit

Japanese DictionaryJapanese words from Jisho with readings, meanings, JLPT level and common-word tags, the kanji they are written with, and romaji typed as kana

Jellyfin & PlexContinue watching, next up, recently added and search on your Jellyfin and Plex servers, with posters; play in mpv or VLC, mark watched

JiraYour Jira Cloud issues by status with priority, sprint and labels; change status, assign, search with text or JQL, create issues

JoplinSearch your Joplin notes by notebook, preview them with their tags, create notes and copy links

JSON ExplorerValidate, browse and query the JSON in your clipboard, then copy values, paths or YAML, TOML and CSV

JupyterRunning Jupyter servers with their notebooks and kernels, and your recent notebooks: open with the token, interrupt, restart or shut down kernels

KDE ConnectYour phones through KDE Connect or GSConnect: battery, ring, send the clipboard, a file or an SMS, browse their files

Keyboard LayoutsSee the current keyboard layout and switch between layouts and input methods

Keyboard ShortcutsA searchable cheat sheet of your desktop's real keyboard shortcuts on GNOME, KDE Plasma, Hyprland, Sway, niri and i3

KeyringBrowse the items of GNOME Keyring, KWallet or any Secret Service keyring with their attributes; copy a secret kept out of clipboard history, lock, unlock or delete

Kitchen ConverterCups and spoons to grams for 66 ingredients, oven temperatures in °C, °F, gas mark and thermostat, recipe scaling and ingredient substitutions

KubernetesBrowse pods with their status, logs and restarts, and switch kubectl contexts and namespaces

LAN DevicesThe devices on your local network with their name, vendor, MAC and services; ping, SSH, open their web page, copy addresses

LaTeX SymbolsFind a LaTeX math symbol by name, command or the character itself, and copy its command, character or code point

LicensesOpen source licenses with their permissions, conditions and limitations; copy the text or add it to a project

LichessYour Lichess ratings and their progress, recent games with openings and accuracy, games waiting for your move, any player's profile and the daily puzzle on a board

LinearYour issues with their status, priority, labels and assignee; search, triage and quick issue creation

Linkding & LinkwardenSearch your Linkding or Linkwarden bookmarks with their tags and descriptions; save the copied link, open, copy, archive and delete

LogseqSearch your Logseq pages and blocks, preview them with properties and backlinks, open today's journal and capture blocks

LyricsSynced lyrics of the song playing in Spotify, your browser or any MPRIS player, the current line highlighted as it plays, from LRCLIB

MailUnread mail of up to three IMAP accounts (Gmail, Fastmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Proton Mail Bridge or any server): preview, mark read, archive, delete

Mail CatcherThe mail your app sends in development, caught by Mailpit or MailHog: read it, copy the verification code or open the link in one keystroke

MapsFind places and addresses with OpenStreetMap: opening hours, phone and website, directions from home, and your saved places

Marine & SurfWaves, swell, wind, sea temperature and currents for your beaches and any coast, now and for 7 days, with a rough surf rating and the best hours, from Open-Meteo

Mastodon & BlueskyYour Mastodon and Bluesky timelines and notifications in one list; boost, like and reply, and write a post once for one or both networks with live character counts

MatrixYour Matrix rooms and direct chats with unread counts and the last message; reply, send, mark as read, open in Element

Mattermost & ZulipYour Mattermost channels or Zulip streams and direct messages, unread first; read the last messages, reply, mark read, set your status

MCP ServersThe MCP servers of Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Zed, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Cline, Codex and Gemini CLI in one list: test, copy, turn on or off

Mealie & GrocyYour Mealie recipes with ingredients and steps, this week's meal plan and shopping lists, and your Grocy stock: what expires, what is missing, consume and open

Media ControlsControl Spotify, browsers, VLC, mpv and any MPRIS player

Media ConverterConvert, trim, compress to a size, resize and turn into GIFs the videos and songs copied in your file manager, with ffmpeg in the background

Memos & TriliumSearch your Memos and Trilium notes with a preview, capture a new memo in a keystroke, pin, and copy links

Message QueuesRabbitMQ queues with ready and unacked messages, consumers and rates, NATS JetStream streams and Kafka or Redpanda topics; consumer lag, peek, purge and tail

Microsoft 365Unread Outlook mail, Microsoft To Do tasks, OneDrive files and today's meetings through Microsoft Graph

Miniflux & FreshRSSUnread articles of your Miniflux or FreshRSS feeds by feed or category with reading times, read in the launcher; mark read, star, open the original

Model CatalogBrowse and compare the LLMs on OpenRouter: price per million tokens in and out, context length, modalities and provider; copy the model id

MongoDBMongoDB Atlas clusters and your own servers: databases, collections, document counts and the latest documents, connection strings to copy

Morse & CiphersWrite and read Morse code, the NATO and French spelling alphabets, ROT13, Caesar, Vigenère, Atbash, A1Z26, binary, hex, braille and upside-down text

Movies & TVSearch movies and TV shows on TMDB with posters, ratings, cast, trailers and where to stream them, and keep a watchlist

MPD MusicControl the Music Player Daemon: now playing with covers, queue, library search and playlists

NASHealth and capacity of your TrueNAS, Synology or Unraid: pools and volumes, disks with temperature, alerts, datasets, shares and containers

Natural EventsWildfires, storms, volcanoes, icebergs and floods happening now around the world, with how far they are from you, from NASA EONET

Navidrome & AudiobookshelfYour Navidrome or Subsonic music and Audiobookshelf audiobooks with covers: search, recent, starred, playlists and continue listening, played in the background with mpv

Nerd Font IconsSearch every Nerd Font glyph by name or code point and copy the glyph, its class, code point or HTML entity

NetBird & ZeroTierYour NetBird and ZeroTier mesh networks: connection, IPs and peers with latency; connect, disconnect, join and leave networks

Network & DevicesWi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio outputs and VPNs in two keystrokes

Network SharesYour SMB, NFS, SSH (SFTP or sshfs) and WebDAV shares: mount, open in the file manager and unmount them, and see what is mounted

Network ToolsPublic IP and location, local interfaces, DNS lookup, whois, ping and a speed test

NextcloudSearch everything in your Nextcloud, browse files and share them, read and write notes, and follow your Deck cards

Night SkyThe planets you can see tonight with where and when to look, the next meteor showers with the Moon's glare, and the eclipses up to 2030 as seen from your place

NixOS SearchSearch nixpkgs packages and NixOS, Home Manager and nix-darwin options from search.nixos.org

Nomad & ConsulHashiCorp Nomad jobs, failing first, with their allocations and logs, and Consul services with their health checks

NotificationsDo Not Disturb and the notification history for mako, Dunst, SwayNotificationCenter, GNOME, Plasma, Xfce and Cinnamon

NotionSearch the pages and databases shared with your integration, read them, add text to a page, create pages in a database

ntfySend push notifications to your phone with ntfy or Gotify, push the clipboard, and read the recent messages of your topics

OBS StudioStart and stop recording and streaming, switch scenes with previews, mute audio sources and turn on the virtual camera in OBS Studio

ObsidianSearch your Obsidian notes by title, tag and text, preview them, open today's daily note and capture ideas

Ollama ModelsSee the local Ollama models and the ones loaded in memory, pull new ones with live progress and delete them

OpenAPIBrowse the endpoints of the OpenAPI and Swagger specs in your projects or at saved URLs, and copy curl commands and example bodies

Org ModeYour Org agenda: overdue, scheduled and deadline items with TODO keywords, priorities and tags; mark DONE, capture to an inbox, open in Emacs at the line

Package RegistriesSearch crates.io, PyPI, Go modules, RubyGems, Packagist, Maven Central, Hex, pub.dev and NuGet

PackagesSearch your distribution's packages and Flathub

PagerDutyOpen PagerDuty incidents with their urgency, service and assignees; acknowledge, resolve, reassign, add notes, and see who is on call

PageSpeed InsightsLighthouse scores and Core Web Vitals of your sites on mobile and desktop, from Google PageSpeed Insights, with their history

Paperless-ngxSearch your Paperless-ngx documents by their text with correspondents, types, tags and thumbnails; download, share, tag, and upload copied files

Parcel TrackingTrack Colissimo, Chronopost and La Poste letters with La Poste's API, and UPS, DHL, FedEx, Amazon and 2,000 more carriers with 17TRACK, with a timeline and change alerts

PasswordsCopy passwords, usernames and one-time codes from pass, Bitwarden, 1Password and KeePassXC

PDF ToolsMerge, split, compress, rotate and unlock PDFs copied in your file manager, and turn pictures into PDFs

Periodic TableThe 118 elements with their mass, electron configuration, electronegativity, melting and boiling points, and a molar mass calculator

PeripheralsBattery level and state of your wireless mice, keyboards, headsets and gamepads, with headset sidetone and lights

Pi-hole & AdGuard HomeQueries, blocked share and top blocked domains of your Pi-hole v6 or AdGuard Home; pause blocking, allow or block a domain

Plain Text Accountinghledger, Ledger and Beancount journals: account balances, this month's expenses by category, recent transactions and a quick form to add one

Plant CareYour houseplants with their watering and fertilizing schedule, what needs water today, a tray reminder and a care guide for 44 common plants

PodcastsSearch Apple Podcasts, subscribe, and play new episodes in the background with mpv: pause, seek, resume where you stopped

PortsWhat listens on :3000? Dev servers and services by port, with their process and project

Postal CodesFind the places of a postal code and the postal codes of a place, in about 70 countries, with a map

PowerSwitch power profiles and check your battery's charge, health, cycles and time left

PrintersSee your printers and their queues, cancel jobs, pause printers and print files

PrivacySee which apps use your camera, microphone, screen and location, and stop them

Project ScriptsScripts, Make targets, just recipes and tasks of your recent projects, run in a terminal

Project TemplatesStart a new project from a Cookiecutter, Copier or plain git template: a form for the template's questions, then run it directly or in a terminal

Prometheus & AlertmanagerFiring Alertmanager alerts by severity or group, silence them for an hour, a day or as long as you need; run PromQL, see down targets and rule states

Prompt LibraryYour own library of reusable AI prompts with {{variables}}, filled in a form and pasted into any app

ProxmoxNodes, virtual machines and containers of Proxmox VE with CPU, memory and uptime; start, shut down, reboot, consoles and snapshots

Public HolidaysUpcoming public holidays of your country with countdowns, French school holidays by zone, and the bridge days worth taking off

Public TransportNext departures from your stops with real-time delays and disruptions, and journeys with changes and CO₂, for SNCF trains, Île-de-France and French networks (Navitia)

Python EnvironmentsThe virtualenvs of your projects (venv, uv, virtualenv, Poetry, Pipenv) and conda environments: Python version, size, packages; open a terminal with one activated, delete the ones you don't need

QR CodesTurn text, links and Wi-Fi networks into QR codes, and scan the ones on your screen

Quick NotesJot, find, pin and paste notes kept as plain markdown files, ready for Obsidian, your editor or sync

Raindrop.ioSearch your Raindrop.io bookmarks with their covers, tags and collection; save links, favorite, move and delete

RandomFlip a coin, roll dice, draw a number, pick or shuffle from a list, get a color or ask the Magic 8-Ball

Read LaterYour Wallabag or Readeck reading list with reading times and tags, articles readable in the launcher; save links there or to Instapaper

RedditHot, new and top posts from your subreddits with scores, comments, flairs, pictures and the top comments, without an account

Regex TesterTest JavaScript regular expressions with groups, replacements, explanations and a library of common patterns

Release NotesChangelogs from Conventional Commits since the last tag, the next semantic version, CHANGELOG.md, tags and GitHub or GitLab releases

Reverse ProxyRoutes and certificates of Traefik, Caddy and Nginx Proxy Manager, errors first, with upstreams and expiry; open a domain, renew or disable a host

RouterConnected clients, internet throughput and reboot for OpenWrt, UniFi and Freebox routers, with Wi-Fi signal, IPs and traffic

ScannerScan documents and photos with SANE to PDF, PNG or JPEG, from the glass or the feeder, with optional text recognition

Scheduled TasksYour cron jobs and systemd timers in plain words with their next and last runs; run now, see logs, enable or disable

Scheduling LinksYour upcoming Cal.com and Calendly bookings with attendees and one-key joins, your booking links to copy, and cancel with a confirmation

Screenshot & RecordingCapture an area, a window or the whole screen, record the screen, and find your recent captures

ScrobblesYour Last.fm and ListenBrainz listening: what's playing now, recent scrobbles with covers, and your top artists, tracks and albums of the week

SemverCheck whether a version satisfies an npm, Cargo, RubyGems or Python range, explain ranges in words, compare, sort and bump versions

SentryUnresolved issues across your projects with events, users and assignee; resolve, ignore, assign; latest event with its stack trace (sentry.io, US and EU regions)

Serverless DatabasesYour Neon, Turso and PlanetScale databases in one list: branches, computes, groups and deploy requests; copy connection URIs and create tokens

ServicesStart, stop and inspect systemd services

SlackSet your Slack status from presets, pause notifications, jump to channels and search messages

SnapsInstalled snaps with their channel, revisions and size: update, revert to an older revision, manage connections, free old revisions or remove them

SonarQubeSonarCloud or SonarQube projects with their quality gate, failing first, and bugs, vulnerabilities, code smells, coverage and duplication; new issues and security hotspots of a project

Sonarr & RadarrUpcoming episodes and movies with posters, the download queue and adding series, movies or artists to Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr

Song RecognitionFind out which song is playing, on your computer or around you, with SongRec (Shazam): title, artist, album, cover and lyrics, then open it in Spotify or YouTube

SourceHutYour sr.ht repositories, recent builds with their tasks (resubmit, cancel), tickets assigned to you or in your trackers, and patchsets of your mailing lists

Space LaunchesUpcoming and recent rocket launches with a T-minus countdown, status, rocket, mission, orbit, pad and webcasts, and spaceflight events like dockings and spacewalks, from Launch Library 2

SplitwiseWho owes you and whom you owe on Splitwise, by friend and group, recent expenses, and a quick shared expense split equally

Sports ScoresFootball scores live and today, standings and your teams' next matches (football-data.org), Formula 1 weekends, results and standings, and NBA scores

SpotifySearch Spotify, play on any of your devices, queue songs, browse your playlists and save what's playing to your library

SQL ScratchpadSaved SQL queries run on your PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite databases, read-only unless you confirm; results as a table, copied or saved as CSV, JSON or Markdown

SSH & GPG KeysYour SSH and GPG keys with their type, fingerprint, agent status and expiry; copy, load in the agent, add to GitHub or GitLab, generate new ones

SSH HostsConnect to the hosts of your SSH config and known_hosts in a terminal or the file manager

Stack OverflowSearch Stack Overflow, Super User, Ask Ubuntu, Unix & Linux and Server Fault, and read the accepted answer

Stand-upA daily stand-up drafted from your work since the last working day: git commits, merged and reviewed GitHub pull requests, closed Linear issues; copy as Markdown or for Slack

Startup AppsSee and change what starts when you log in: autostart apps, systemd user services and Hyprland

Status PagesIs GitHub down? Live health of the developer services you depend on, with their components and incident updates

StocksA stock watchlist with live quotes, day ranges, company profiles and news, from Finnhub's free API

StripePayments, customers, subscriptions and balance of your Stripe account, test or live, with refunds behind a confirmation

Subnet CalculatorIPv4 and IPv6 subnets: network, broadcast, host range, netmask and wildcard, address scope, splitting, membership checks and CIDR summarization

Sun & MoonSunrise, sunset, golden and blue hours, twilights and day length, the Sun's position, and the Moon's phase, rise and set times, for any place and date

SupabaseYour Supabase projects with their region, status and Postgres version; tables, edge functions, logs and API keys; open Studio, pause and restore

SyncthingFolders and devices of Syncthing with sync progress, conflicts and last scan; rescan, pause and resume

System LogsErrors and warnings of this boot from systemd's journal, grouped by service

System MonitorLive CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU and battery usage, and the processes behind it

System SnapshotsTimeshift and Snapper snapshots with their date, type and changed files; create, compare, delete or restore them

System UpdatesAvailable updates from APT, DNF, Pacman, Zypper, Flatpak, Snap and firmware, applied in a terminal

TailscaleYour tailnet's devices with their IPs and state: copy, SSH, ping, exit nodes, Taildrop, connect and disconnect

Tailwind CSSSearch Tailwind CSS v4 utility classes with the CSS they generate, browse the color palette and open the docs

TaskwarriorYour Taskwarrior tasks by urgency with project, tags and due date; quick add, done, start and stop, annotate, modify and reports

Temperatures & FansCPU, GPU, drive and motherboard temperatures and fan speeds, live, with hot and critical ones highlighted and a warning when something overheats

Terminal SessionsAttach to, create, rename and kill your tmux and zellij sessions

TerraformTerraform and OpenTofu projects with their workspaces, state resources and outputs; init, plan, apply, fmt and validate in your terminal

Text DiffCompare two texts line by line and word by word: clipboard, selection or clipboard history, with a unified patch to copy

Text from ScreenSelect any part of the screen and copy the text in it, recognized offline with Tesseract

Text StatisticsWords, characters, sentences, reading and speaking time, readability and frequent words of the text you type or copy, in English or French

Text to SpeechRead the clipboard, the selection or any text aloud with Piper, eSpeak NG, Speech Dispatcher or Festival

ThemesSwitch GTK, icon and cursor themes, Plasma color schemes and global themes, the accent color and dark mode

Thesaurus & RhymesEnglish synonyms, antonyms, rhymes and near rhymes, words that sound alike, adjectives for a noun and words for a phrase, with syllables and frequency, from Datamuse

TickTickToday's and upcoming TickTick tasks by project; complete, reschedule and quick-add tasks in plain language

Time TrackingStart, stop and resume timers of Toggl Track, Clockify, Timewarrior or Kimai, with today's and this week's entries and totals

TimersTimers and Pomodoro that ring even when Backslash is closed (systemd timers)

Todo.txtYour todo.txt tasks by due date, with priorities, +projects, @contexts, recurrence and quick add

TodoistToday's tasks, search and quick add in natural language

ToolchainsLanguage runtimes installed with mise, asdf, rustup, fnm, nvm, pyenv or SDKMAN!: what's in use, what's newer, install and switch in a terminal

TorrentsTorrents of Transmission, qBittorrent or Deluge with progress, speeds, ETA and ratio; pause, resume, remove, add magnet links and toggle the speed limits

TrashSee what is in the trash, preview it, restore items or delete them for good

TrelloYour boards and cards with labels, due dates and members; move, complete, archive and create cards

TriviaMultiple-choice and true-or-false quiz questions from Open Trivia DB in 24 categories and three difficulties, with your score, streak and best streak

TunnelsShare a local port on a public HTTPS URL with ngrok or a Cloudflare quick tunnel, and keep track of the open ones

TwitchFollowed channels that are live with game, viewers and uptime, top categories and channel search; watch in the browser or with streamlink

Unit ConverterConversions as you type in the search: length, mass, temperature, data, time, volume, speed and area, in English or French

Uptime & SSLWatch your websites: HTTP status, response time and how long until their TLS certificate expires

Uptime KumaYour Uptime Kuma and Better Stack monitors, down first, with response time, certificate expiry and uptime history

Vault SecretsHashiCorp Vault and OpenBao KV secrets with your own token: browse, copy values kept out of clipboard history, versions, token TTL and policies

Vehicle LookupDecode a VIN into make, model, year, engine and plant, check its digit, and see a vehicle's safety recalls, from NHTSA (best for vehicles sold in the United States)

Video DownloaderDownload the video or song of a copied link with yt-dlp: see its title, length and qualities first, pick 1080p, 720p, MP3 or M4A, and get notified when it's done

VikunjaOverdue, today's and upcoming Vikunja tasks by project; complete, reschedule, and quick add with Vikunja's *label +project !priority magic

Voice NotesRecord voice notes from the microphone and transcribe them on your computer with whisper.cpp or Whisper, then copy, paste or save them as notes

VulnerabilitiesLook up known vulnerabilities of a package version or an advisory id on OSV.dev, and scan your projects' lockfiles

Wake on LANWake the computers of your network with a magic packet and see when they come online

WallpapersBrowse your wallpapers, find new ones on Wallhaven and Unsplash, and set them on any desktop

WaydroidOpen your Waydroid Android apps, start or stop the session, show the full Android screen, and install an APK you copied in the file manager

WeatherCurrent conditions, the next 24 hours and the week ahead for any city, from Open-Meteo

Web AnalyticsVisitors, pageviews, bounce rate, top pages and sources of your sites from Plausible, Umami and PostHog

Web SearchSearch the web with live suggestions, 50 !bangs and your recent searches, on the engine you prefer

WebcamYour webcams and their controls: brightness, exposure, focus, zoom, white balance; take a snapshot and preview it

Webhook InboxA temporary webhook URL from webhook.site: watch requests arrive live with their headers, query and body, and replay them to your local server

WikipediaSearch Wikipedia in your language, read summaries and whole articles, and discover random pages

WikisSearch Outline, BookStack, Wiki.js and Confluence at once and read their pages in the launcher; copy links, open in the browser

Window LayoutsSave the windows you have open as a named layout and bring it back: apps relaunched, moved to their workspace and place, plus your URLs and commands

Window ManagerSnap, maximize, center, close and move the focused window between workspaces

World ClockThe time in your cities, offsets, day and night, and time conversions like “3pm NY in Paris”

YouTubeSearch YouTube with thumbnails, views and durations, open videos in the browser or play them in mpv in the background, and browse channels

YubiKeyTwo-factor codes stored on your YubiKey, and its PIV, FIDO2 and OpenPGP status

ZoteroSearch your Zotero library by title, author or tag, copy APA citations and BibTeX, and open PDFs

325 extensionsSource on GitHub ↗Missing one? Write it in an afternoon →

Extend it

A TOML file and a TypeScript file.

No build step, no node_modules, no bundler. The launcher draws the interface: search, keyboard navigation, preview panel and actions. Your code only says what to show.

Read the extension guide

$ backslash new release-radar
$ backslash dev
# commands/releases.ts
import { list } from "@backslash/api";

export default async function () {
  const repos = await fetchFollowed();
  return list(repos.map((r) => ({
    title: r.name,
    subtitle: r.release.tag,
    detail: r.release.notes,
  })));
}

Install

Up and running in a minute.

Add the repository so Backslash updates with your system, or download the package. Needs GTK 4.14 or newer: Ubuntu 24.04+, Debian 13+, Fedora 40+, Arch, openSUSE Tumbleweed. Then press Super + Space.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is Backslash a Raycast alternative for Linux?

Yes. Backslash is a native, keyboard-first launcher for Linux in the spirit of Raycast and Alfred. Press Super + Space to open apps, files, clipboard history, snippets and 325 extensions for tools like GitHub, Kubernetes, Linear, Docker and Spotify.

Does it work on Wayland, GNOME and KDE?

Yes. Backslash runs on Wayland and X11, on GNOME, KDE Plasma, Hyprland, Sway, niri and other desktops. It lists Flatpak and Snap apps and follows your icon theme and light or dark mode.

Is Backslash free?

Yes. Backslash is open source under the MIT license. There is no account, no telemetry and no paywall, and your configuration lives in plain files.

How do I install Backslash on Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora?

Add the Backslash apt or dnf repository and install the backslash package, so updates come with your system updates. Packages for Arch, Nix and a tarball are on the GitHub releases page. Backslash needs GTK 4.14 or newer (Ubuntu 24.04+, Debian 13+, Fedora 40+).

Are extensions safe?

Each extension declares what it may access, such as a website or a command. You read and approve those permissions once, and the sandbox denies everything else.

Can I write my own extension?

Yes. An extension is a TOML manifest and TypeScript files, with no build step. Run backslash new to start one and backslash dev to try it live. Any script, in any language, can also become a command.