---
title: zrun
related:
  - "[eqnx](eqnx.md)"
  - "[dotfiles](dotfiles.md)"
categories:
  - Tools and applications
---

**zrun** is an application launcher: search your applications and run them.
It sits somewhere between dmenu, rofi, wofi and tofi. It is written in Zig,
which I had never touched before, and draws with raylib.

![zrun](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hugoocoto/zrun/main/image1.png)

## Features

- Some kind of fuzzy finding.
- Results sorted by a matching-gap heuristic (magic).
- Logo artwork.
- It works; I use it daily.

## Installation

1. Install raylib 6.0.
2. Run `zig build`, or just `make`.
3. Run the executable.

It is also available through the [pm user repository](pm-user-repository.md).

> [!NOTE]
> Customizable things, like the font, are at the beginning of the source.
> Edit them and rebuild.

## See also

- [Source code](https://github.com/hugoocoto/zrun)
- [eqnx](eqnx.md) has a Rust rewrite of zrun as a plugin.