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CLUSTER BAR-GLOBAL-MACOS · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-03

macOS menu bar hotkey apps

This cluster consists of native macOS menu bar utilities that assign global keyboard shortcuts to launch or switch apps, with one also covering actions like locking the screen, opening URLs, and running shell commands. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as only 0 dated entries exist before the index start, indicating the cluster predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, promptbar leads with 1 star, while Peekaboo and Wikey have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 8OCT 2026: 1
SEP 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 7 hobby · 1 indie · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01dwim2★26 days—hobbyMac app that lets users run any menu command in the foreground application by typing a plain-language description of what they want.
  2. 02Pi-Web-Launcher1★1 mo—hobbyNative macOS menu bar app that starts, stops, configures, and securely opens a local coding agent without requiring terminal use.
  3. 03zWGestures0★17 dayslivehand-codedhobbymacOS menu bar app that recognizes mouse-drawn gestures and executes configurable actions like keystrokes, web searches, or scripts per application.
  4. 04window-organizer0★13 dayslivehobbymacOS menu bar app that minimizes, closes, quits, or force quits all open apps and windows at once using global keyboard shortcuts.
  5. 05promptbar1★1 mo—hobbyNative macOS menu bar app that stores prompt snippets and inserts them at the cursor in any app with a global hotkey.
  6. 06Wikey0★25 days—hand-codedindiemacOS app that runs multi-step workflows triggered by global shortcuts to launch apps, open websites, paste templates, and arrange windows.
  7. 07Peekaboo0★23 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that assigns global keyboard shortcuts to apps, letting users show, hide, or launch each one from anywhere.
  8. 08OneStep-Action0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyNative macOS menu bar app that assigns global hotkeys to actions like locking the screen, launching apps, opening URLs, and running shell commands.
  9. 09Swichrr0★1 mo—Menu-bar utility for assigning global keyboard shortcuts to launch or switch to any application on macOS.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.