For years it has been considered one of the essential applications on any Mac. It is one of these very useful applications that allows us to access information in seconds that we are looking for inside our Mac.
Today we learned that Alfred's development team is working intensively on alfred 4 to have it ready in June. Although it is a highly developed application, they never settle for little and they have a large battery of new arrivals both in the paid version and the paid part.
The first novelty we find is to be fully compatible with the dark mode from macOS Mojave. On an aesthetic level, the news does not end there, because despite being an application with great effectiveness and accuracy in searches, we find aesthetic adjustments relevant. In this sense a new theme editor and reorganization of preferences. Highlight this last improvement. To date it appeared that preferences had been sorted in "falling order" with no clear criteria. This little mess should go away in the release that is expected in June.
But the most important thing about Alfred, is not only maintained, but improves. His workflow engine to find just what we are looking for, it has improved. It is more, now it is possible automate certain processes. This action is very important for those who repeat a certain action from time to time. We can find these new actions in the function workflows that we have in Alfred 3. Another important novelty is being able to use Opensearch to facilitate the creation of custom queries on the web, with more options when searching for files.
We have no further details on Alfred 4. But the developers have announced that it will be possible to migrate all the configurations of Alfred 3 to version 4. If you have version 3 upgrade to version 4 will be free. But if you want to acquire the paid version, at least in the current version, you will have to pay 23 pounds, around $27. If you don't know Alfred, you can buy the free part and go to the premium version if you are interested.