⚡ Lertaro
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Lertaro is an ultra-lightweight, high-performance, extensible global search and productivity launcher for Windows, built on .NET 10 (WPF). It's a modern, open-source alternative to Listary and Everything — indexing local drives via the NTFS USN Journal and $MFT for near-instant, low-resource search.
📖 Full Documentation, User Manual & Developer Manual
Highlights
- ⚡ USN & MFT Low-Level Indexing — reads the NTFS/ReFS USN Change Journal and $MFT directly instead of walking directories; a lightweight background service keeps the index in sync in real time with FAT32/exFAT monitoring and network share caching.
- 🎯 fzf-Style Fuzzy Search & Aliases — multi-keyword jump matching with directory path tokens and prefix/suffix/exact/exclude operators, plus non-ASCII pinyin alias transliteration.
- 📂 Three Window Modes & Deep Docking — a quick popup window, a full main window, and an inline bar that automatically docks into native Open/Save file dialogs and major file managers (File Explorer, Total Commander, Directory Opus, OneCommander).
- 🎬 Actions Menu & QuickLook Preview — press
Ctrl+O for the actions menu with native Shell right-click integration, or press Alt+P for seamless QuickLook file previews.
- 📊 Instant Disk Space Treemap — explore indexed disk usage visually in a real-time Treemap without rescanning disks, drill down into oversized folders, and execute cleanup actions.
- 🧩 Open Plugin SDK & Ecosystem Bridge — clean .NET 10 C# SDK contracts for custom search providers, aliases, actions, columns, and previews, plus compatibility with Flow Launcher community plugins.
- 🛡️ 3-Process Isolation & Offline Privacy — SYSTEM background service (
Lertaro.Service), user-mode WPF UI (Lertaro.App), and UIPI-bypassing hook helper (Lertaro.Service --hook) are strictly isolated. 100% local with zero telemetry.
See the User Manual for search syntax, every hotkey, and every settings option; the Developer Manual for architecture and the plugin SDK reference.
Download
Grab the latest release from the homepage or directly:
- x64 (Intel / AMD)
- ARM64 (Native for Snapdragon / Windows on ARM)
Building from Source
Requirements: Windows 10/11, .NET 10 SDK, Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider, and the 64-bit edition of Inno Setup 7 if you want to build the installer.
build_and_run.bat — rebuilds App/Core/Service/plugins and relaunches everything locally.make.bat — produces Release builds for both x64 and ARM64 in dist/.
See the Developer Manual for the full architecture and plugin SDK.
🎁 Support & Donation
If Lertaro has been useful to you, thank you for considering a donation!
- USDT (TRC20):
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License
MIT License.
