Native macOS launcher

Everything on your Mac. One keystroke away.

A tiny, native launcher. No Electron. No account. No telemetry. No bullshit.

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v0.10.5macOS 26+AGPL-3.0

Tinycast's launcher floating over the macOS desktop, showing grouped Favorites and Applications with Ghostty selected and an Open Application action.

Pick a shortcut on first run, then summon it from anywhere.

Tinycast in action

See it in motion.

A palette that stays out of your way — until you need it.

What it does

Everything you reach for, one keystroke away.

One palette, and everything in it is off until you ask for it. Every card links to its documentation.

App launcher

Fuzzy-search every app on your Mac and open it with a keystroke. Pin the ones you reach for, see what's already running, and quit an app without leaving the keyboard.

Extensions

Runs Raycast extensions natively, rendered as SwiftUI. Install from the store without a toolchain, or bring over the ones you already have.

Clipboard history

Text and images, full-text searchable, filtered by type, pasted straight back where you came from — kept as long as you like, up to forever.

Inline calculator

Math, unit, live currency and crypto conversions right in the palette — plus plain-English dates like “days till 9 Apr”.

Snippets

Reusable Markdown templates with placeholders, arguments and nested references. Type a keyword in any app and it expands.

Floating notes

Plain Markdown files in one floating editor. No database, no frontmatter — the file on disk is exactly what you typed.

File search

Find files and folders through the Spotlight index, only when you ask. Needs no file permission at all.

Window management

Halves, quarters, thirds, nudges, display moves and instant Space switching — 32 commands, with no new permission and nothing new to install.

Quicklinks

Turn a URL, search, file or deeplink into a real command, with arguments it prompts you for and a chosen app to open it in.

Custom commands

Name a shell command and run it from search or its own global hotkey. Every run confirms first.

System actions

Lock, sleep, restart, volume, Bluetooth, Stage Manager, empty the Trash — 31 actions, each bindable to a key.

Emoji & symbols

Search the full emoji and symbol set, tune the skin tone, and your most-used ones float to the top.

Global & per-app hotkeys

Record a shortcut to summon the palette, bind a key to any app to focus or hide it, or double-tap a lone modifier.

Hyper key

Turn Caps Lock or a right-side modifier into ⌃⌥⇧⌘ — a whole extra layer of shortcuts, shown as a single ✦.

Aliases

Rename anything in the launcher. An alias matches as strongly as the real name, so “ps” can open Photoshop.

App uninstaller

Remove an app and the caches, preferences and containers it leaves behind. Everything goes to the Trash, never deleted.

Input source switching

Switch the keyboard to a chosen source while the palette is open, and put it back when you leave.

Light & Dark

Follow macOS, or pin Tinycast to Light or Dark. Same design either way — only the ink inverts.

Backup & restore

Export every shortcut, favorite and clip to one file, then restore it on another Mac. A backup can never grant a permission.

Why it's tiny

Built like a Mac app should be.

Native SwiftUI and AppKit, with zero third-party dependencies. Fast because there's barely anything to it.

<5MB
On disk
<100MB
Memory
0
Dependencies
0
Telemetry
  • Free & open source
  • Local by design
  • No account, no sign-in
  • Zero telemetry
  • One permission, asked once

Already set up elsewhere?

Bring your setup with you.

Tinycast reads a Raycast export directly. Point it at your .rayconfig file, type the passphrase, and pick what comes across — no redoing shortcuts by hand.

  1. Export what you haveRaycast → Settings → Advanced → Export, and note the passphrase.
  2. Open Settings → BackupChoose the file. Tinycast reads both export formats and says which one it found.
  3. Pick what to bringKeep it all or just the parts you want — then you're set up.

Comes across

  • Shortcuts
  • Favorites
  • Clipboard history
  • Snippets
  • Aliases
  • Emoji skin tone
  • Compact mode
  • Pop to root
  • Launch at login
  • Menu-bar preference
Read the import guide
Tinycast's Backup settings pane with a Raycast export selected and a list of categories to import.

Get it

Install with Homebrew.

One command and you're running. Each channel installs as its own app, so a pre-release can live beside stable.

Recommended
brew trust --tap abue-ammar/tinycast && brew install --cask abue-ammar/tinycast/tinycast

Downloading the DMG instead?

Tinycast is self-signed — there's no paid Developer ID behind it — so macOS quarantines a direct download. Homebrew clears that flag for you on every install and update. If you grab the DMG from Releases by hand, clear it once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Tinycast.app"

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