Built for macOS 26 Tahoe & later

The Launchpad you
miss, reborn.

macOS Tahoe retired the full-screen Launchpad. LaunchingPad brings the spatial, paginated app grid back — rebuilt natively in Swift 6 and SwiftUI, faster than the original and customizable to the pixel.

Download for macOS Explore features →
  • Native Swift 6 · SwiftUI
  • Instant summon, anywhere
  • Private — never touches Apple's DB
LaunchingPad open over a purple desktop wallpaper: a full-screen, paginated grid of macOS app icons with Most Used and Recents columns down the left and a search field at the top.
Hotkey ⌥Space•Trackpad pinch•Hot corners• F4 key•Fuzzy search•Drag-to-folder• Apple Intelligence names•Recents & Most Used• Live wallpaper backdrop•Saved arrangements• VoiceOver ready• Hotkey ⌥Space•Trackpad pinch•Hot corners• F4 key•Fuzzy search•Drag-to-folder• Apple Intelligence names•Recents & Most Used• Live wallpaper backdrop•Saved arrangements• VoiceOver ready•
Everything you loved — and more

A launcher that feels like
it belongs in macOS.

Every detail of the original, recreated with care, then pushed further with the kind of customization Apple never shipped.

Summon from anywhere

One gesture. Your whole library.

Call up the grid the way that fits your hands. A blurred, dimmed overlay drops onto the active display and the current Space — never yanking you somewhere else.

  • ⌥ Space hotkey — fully rebindable, powered by KeyboardShortcuts.
  • Trackpad pinch — three- or four-finger pinch, just like before.
  • Hot corner — rest the pointer in any corner you choose.
  • F4 key & menu bar icon — for the muscle memory.
LaunchingPad's General settings window showing the Activation section: a ⌥Space hotkey, a System F4 Key toggle, Trackpad set to pinch with 4 or 5 fingers, and a Bottom Right hot corner.
Organize spatially

Drag, drop, done.
Folders that name themselves.

Click-and-hold to enter edit mode — icons wiggle, ready to move. Drag one app onto another to spin up a folder. Drag to a screen edge to flip pages. It’s the tactile, spatial layout your memory already knows.

  • Drop to create folders in a centered glass panel.
  • Apple Intelligence names suggest a folder title from the apps inside. AI
  • Self-healing — a folder left with one app dissolves automatically.
  • Edit anywhere — drag to an edge to carry an app across pages.
Creativity suggested
Make it yours

Three backdrops.
Infinite moods.

Choose the classic frosted blur, mirror your live desktop wallpaper — dynamic and aerial included — or drop in any image of your own. Then dial the blur to taste.

  • Material — thin, normal, or thick frosted blur of everything behind.
  • Wallpaper — mirrors your current desktop, windows hidden.
  • Custom image — any picture, blur keeps labels readable.
Appearance · Launcher Background
🧭 💬 🎵 📸
Blur amount 40 pt
Find & surface

Type to fly.
The right apps, up front.

Start typing the instant the grid appears — fuzzy search ranks across names, bundle IDs, categories and folder contents, then Return launches the top hit. Pin your Recents and Most Used rows beside every page, or just on page one.

  • Fuzzy everything — “lr” finds Lightroom, folders flatten into results.
  • Recents & Most Used — 1–3 columns, fixed or first-page placement.
  • ⌥-click to launch without dismissing the launcher.
🧭SafariReturn ↵
⚙️Safari Technology Preview
📁Saved · folder · 6 apps
Recents
🔨 ⌨️ 📝
Most Used
💬 🧭 🎧
Tune the grid

Your layout, to the pixel.

Size the grid from a roomy 4×3 to a dense 10×9. Scale icons and folder spacing. Then save named arrangements and restore them anytime — LaunchingPad backs up first, skips missing apps, and tucks new ones at the end.

  • Grid — 4–10 columns, 3–9 rows, adjustable icon size.
  • Saved arrangements — snapshot and switch between layouts.
  • Import legacy — pull in your old LaunchOS / Launchpad database.
Layout · Grid
Columns
7
Rows
5
🗂️ Work setup7×5 · 4 pages · 62 apps
🎮 Play8×6 · 3 pages · 71 apps
And the details that matter

Thoughtful, all the way down.

⌨️

Keyboard-first

Arrow keys, Tab, ⌘← / ⌘→ pages, ⌘F search. There’s always a selected tile.

♿️

Accessible by design

VoiceOver speaks every tile. Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency are honored.

🔄

Auto-discovery

Watches your app folders with dispatch sources — installs and removals reconcile instantly.

🔐

Respects your system

Its own JSON layout — never touches Apple’s database. Launches obey Screen Time & restrictions.

🗑️

Manage in place

Right-click to reveal in Finder, hide from the grid, or move to Trash. System apps stay safe.

🖥️

Multi-display aware

Opens on the active display and Space, then restores your previous app on dismiss.

⚡️

Launch at login

Quietly ready in the menu bar from the moment you sign in.

🔔

Stays current

Built-in Sparkle updates keep the private build fresh — automatic and unobtrusive.

Muscle memory included

Every key, where you expect it.

Esc

Cancel drag → close folder → clear search → exit edit → dismiss

↵

Launch the selection or top search result

←→↑↓

Move selection; left/right cross page edges

⌘← / ⌘→

Previous / next page

⌘F

Focus the search field

⌥click

Launch without closing the launcher

Delete

In edit mode: hide the selected app

⌘Delete

Move the selected app to Trash (confirmed)

Put your apps
back in their place.

Free, native, and made for macOS 26 Tahoe and later.

Download for macOS View on GitHub
  • macOS 26 Tahoe+
  • Apple Silicon & Intel
  • ~6 MB · Swift 6