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Enso Portable vs Liberkey

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When comparing Enso Portable vs Liberkey, the Slant community recommends Enso Portable for most people. In the question“What are the best app launchers for Windows?” Enso Portable is ranked 12th while Liberkey is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose Enso Portable is:

GChristensen recently upgraded Enso to Python 3.7, a great improvement over the original v2.5. You can write custom Enso commands in Python through its new web interface (or your favorite editor once you know where to put the files.) There's even an install command to pip install any Python package you need from PyPI. The sky's the limit.

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Pros

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Extensible in Python

Pro
Optional quasimode

Letting go of CapsLock just feels faster than hitting enter (sometimes too fast: be sure to disable the reboot command before turning this on!) Even with quasimode enabled, you can make it modal for that command by tapping Alt.

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Easily teach the app to open specific apps and sites

There is a learning function to the app that allows the user to teach the app to open specific items by typing "learn as open" and then clicking on the item one wants it to learn to open.

Pro
Can go to existing open windows

By using the "go" command users can switch to their already open windows making this a bit of a window navigator as well as a launcher.

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detailed info using liberkey sync

The online catalog will adapt to only show what apps you don't have installed on your LiberKey, and apps on your LiberKey that have an update available.

You will be able to access detailed reports on the installations performed on your LiberKey, whether it be installing an application suite, installing applications from the online catalog or updating your applications. You will be able to view information on these recently installed or updated applications, and automatically open your LiberKey menu to these applications.

A detailed changelog of your LiberKey's software - you'll be able to see what was improved and what was fixed between the version of the LiberKey software you were on, and the software you just updated to.

A summary of your LiberKey's details (last patch applied, version, language, amount of apps installed, etc.)

Online options; the ability to change how much your LiberKey interacts with the website.

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grid list toggle

There is toggle to show apps on grid or list view

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high customization

you can customize everything including themes, behaviour, and many more

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Has file association tool

very useful to associate portableapps to system

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Cons

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Comes with a reboot command

And a shutdown command too. Installing these is optional, and I recommend that you don't, especially if you use the quasimode. Unless you like losing your work.

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No message log

According to Raskin's philosophy which inspired Enso, a pop up "dialog" is a bad design. The OK button is a useless input that interrupts your flow. Enso's pop up messages, therefore, are transparent and quickly fade away on their own (like Android Toast messages). Unfortunately, this also means you can easily miss them if you're not paying attention. Raskin's solution was to keep a message log you can refer back to, but Humanized never got around to implementing that for Enso.

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Usage tends to be slowed by the caps lock

Function of the app relies on the caps lock key being pressed to enter commands, which can slow some people down by having to hold that key down when they are typing commands.