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Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history.

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# Tinycast

**A tiny, fully native macOS launcher. One hotkey, everything you reach for all day, under 100 MB of
RAM.**

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast/releases/latest">
    <img alt="Latest release"
         src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/abue-ammar/tinycast?sort=semver&style=flat&label=release&color=1F6FEB"></a>
  <img alt="Swift 6.0"
       src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Swift-6.0-F05138?style=flat&logo=swift&logoColor=white">
  <img alt="macOS 26 or later"
       src="https://img.shields.io/badge/macOS-26%2B-000000?style=flat&logo=apple&logoColor=white">
  <a href="LICENSE">
    <img alt="License: AGPL-3.0"
         src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-AGPL--3.0-3DA639?style=flat"></a>
  <a href="https://discord.gg/v2Eeb4QQy3">
    <img alt="Join the Tinycast Discord"
         src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-Join-5865F2?style=flat&logo=discord&logoColor=white"></a>
</p>

SwiftUI and AppKit, **zero third-party dependencies**, no Electron and no telemetry. It also **runs
real Raycast extensions**, rendered as native SwiftUI. Free, open source, and staying that way.

For anything private, email [iabueammar@gmail.com](mailto:iabueammar@gmail.com).

<p align="center">
  <img src="docs/screenshot.png" alt="Tinycast command palette" width="720">
</p>

## Features

- **App launcher** — fuzzy-search and launch anything, pin favorites, see what's running, quit an app
  or every app at once.
- **Global hotkey** — one shortcut summons the palette from anywhere.
- **Per-app hotkeys** — bind a key to an app; press it to toggle (focus/hide).
- **Deeplinks** — run any command, window action, quicklink, snippet, note or chat from a
  `tinycast://` URL, for Karabiner-Elements, Shortcuts or scripts. A link can carry text and
  arguments, and a link from outside asks before it acts. Copy Deeplink (⇧⌘C) gives you the link.
- **Search Files** — find files and folders instantly from a private index of the folders you choose,
  kept on your Mac. Needs Full Disk Access; off by default.
- **Dictionary** — look a word up with the Define Word command, or define whatever you typed from the
  launcher's fallbacks, read from the Mac's own dictionaries.
- **Clipboard history** — text and images, searchable, pasted back into the app you were using.
- **Calculator** — do math, unit, live currency and crypto conversions inline, right in the palette.
- **Quicklinks** — turn a URL, search, file or deeplink into a command, with placeholders for typed
  input, the clipboard or the date.
- **Apple Shortcuts** — search and run the shortcuts you built in the Shortcuts app, with aliases and
  global hotkeys.
- **Snippets** — reusable Markdown templates with dynamic placeholders, arguments, nested references
  and optional keyword expansion.
- **Custom commands** — run named shell commands through fuzzy search or their own global hotkeys.
- **Window management** — 39 Rectangle-style actions: halves, quarters, thirds, sizing, nudging,
  edge moves, display moves, fullscreen and Spaces.
- **System actions** — lock, sleep, restart, empty trash, toggle appearance, Bluetooth, mute, hidden
  files, and more.
- **Calendar and meetings** — your next meeting on the empty palette and in the menu bar, one key to
  join it, or let it join itself.
- **Notes** — an unlimited collection of plain Markdown files in one floating editor, searchable from
  the palette and rendered as you write.
- **Emoji picker** — a searchable emoji grid, one keystroke away.
- **AI chat** — use your own key or an installed AI account: ask Quick AI from the palette, or keep
  longer conversations in the AI Chat window, with a searchable, pinnable history. Off out of the box,
  like every AI feature.
- **Quick Actions** — fix grammar, rewrite, translate or summarize the selected text in any app.
- **Dictation** — press a shortcut and speak, and the text lands in the app you're
  using. Speech is turned into text on your Mac. Off by default.
- **Raycast extensions** — run the ones you already have natively, rendered as SwiftUI.
- **Backup and import** — export your settings to a file, or import your setup from Raycast.

## Install

First, add the tap:

```sh
brew trust --tap abue-ammar/tinycast   # required for third-party taps
brew tap abue-ammar/tinycast
```

Then run the one line that matches your Mac:

| Your Mac                         | Install                                  |
| -------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| Apple silicon, macOS 26 or newer | `brew install --cask tinycast`           |
| Intel, macOS 26                  | `brew install --cask tinycast-universal` |

Not sure which Mac you have? **Apple menu → About This Mac.**

- **Early builds:** `brew install --cask tinycast@beta` installs `Tinycast Beta.app` beside the stable app.
- **DMG from [Releases](https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast/releases)?** It's self-signed, so run
  `xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Tinycast.app"` once.

## Building from source

See **[docs/development.md](docs/development.md)** for the toolchain, build, packaging, release and
website workflows. **[docs/](docs/README.md)** indexes everything else — architecture, engineering
standards, the design system and one document per feature.

## Support

Tinycast is **free, and it stays that way**. If it earns a place on your Mac, consider supporting its
development. Thanks in advance.

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://tinycast.dev/support">
    <img alt="Support Tinycast" width="188" height="44" src="docs/support-button.svg"></a><br>
  <sub>Payments are handled securely by <a href="https://polar.sh">Polar.sh</a>.</sub>
</p>

You can also support Tinycast with crypto: scan a code with your wallet, or copy an address. Send
only on the network named for that address. If yours isn't listed,
[email me](mailto:iabueammar@gmail.com?subject=Supporting%20Tinycast).

<table>
  <tr>
    <td align="center">
      <img width="160" alt="Bitcoin address QR code" src="website/public/wallets/bitcoin-qr.svg"><br>
      <b>Bitcoin</b>
    </td>
    <td align="center">
      <img width="160" alt="Ethereum, Base and BNB Smart Chain address QR code" src="website/public/wallets/ethereum-qr.svg"><br>
      <b>Ethereum, Base, BNB Smart Chain</b>
    </td>
    <td align="center">
      <img width="160" alt="Solana address QR code" src="website/public/wallets/solana-qr.svg"><br>
      <b>Solana</b>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

**Bitcoin**

```text
bc1qpfxtjpuhm2cm8kg4lqgu3ffjch7vcjf678arwn
```

**Ethereum, Base and BNB Smart Chain** (one address for all three)

```text
0x22A00612bc0bf1Dc73AAC75e8De1BA4e81fF0810
```

**Solana**

```text
4EH7JDXZxkJiahas1xgPyC1iBW9pfCVUXxVtpqvwAz6T
```

## License

[AGPL-3.0](LICENSE)