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Pinpoint vs StartIsBack

Pinpoint

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StartIsBack

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FigurePinpointStartIsBack
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
WindowsYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Start Menu Customization Software8.1 (#8)7.5 (#23)
PurposePinpoint is an open-source keystroke launcher for Windows.StartIsBack restores a Windows 7 style Start menu and taskbar experience in newer Windows versions.

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Pinpoint

  • PinpointFree

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StartIsBack

  • StartIsBack license$4.99, paid once

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Pinpoint

Pinpoint is a free, open-source keystroke launcher for Windows. Its search features cover apps, bookmarks, and files through the Everything tool; it can also launch URLs and open a command line. The launcher indexes bookmarks in Brave, Chrome, and Firefox, and its Bangs feature uses DuckDuckGo operators to search directly on websites. Clipboard tools include a manager and uploader. Other utilities include a calculator, converters, dictionary, encoder and decoder, and password generator. Pinpoint also offers notes, shortcuts, text manipulation, emoji search, a window switcher, operating system and control panel tools, and process management. Its listed information and media features include finance equity look-ups, Hacker News, weather forecasts, translation, time zone conversion, and a Spotify controller. The controller can play, pause, skip, and search across Spotify sessions associated with the user's account on any device. Pinpoint can query ChatGPT from the desktop with an OpenAI API key. Download it from GitHub as a ZIP release or install it with Chocolatey; Alt+Space opens or closes its query box. Developers can create local plugins using the Pinpoint.Plugin NuGet package.

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