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Tinycast

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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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Homebrew
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Works Offline
  2.  Dark Mode
  3.  No Tracking
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  No registration required
  6.  Application Launchers
  7.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  8.  Global hotkey
  9.  Support for Hotkeys

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  •  2,645 Stars
  •  157 Forks
  •  20 Open Issues
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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).