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Tinycast

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Lightweight native macOS launcher offering fuzzy search, app pinning, visible running apps, inline calculation and conversion, searchable clipboard history for text and images, per-app custom hotkeys, no telemetry, minimal resource use, and open-source simplicity.

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  • Free
  • Open Source

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  • Mac
  • Homebrew
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  •  8,768 Stars
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  •  14 Open Issues
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Umang
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Is a good replacement, but the developer has reports of being a bit egoistic. https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1wwbnmt/tinycast_contributing_experience/

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What is Tinycast?

A tiny, fully native macOS launcher — the essentials, without the bloat.

Around 3 MB on disk and under 100 MB of RAM — no Electron, no telemetry, no background CPU churn. Just SwiftUI + AppKit with zero dependencies. It's fast because there's nothing to it.

Features:

  • App launcher — fuzzy-search and launch anything, pin favorites, see what's running.
  • Calculator — do math and unit conversions inline, right in the palette.
  • Clipboard history — text and images, searchable, pasted back into the app you were using.
  • Global hotkey — one shortcut summons the palette from anywhere.
  • Per-app hotkeys — bind a key to an app; press it to toggle (focus/hide).