CLUSTER LAUNCHER-MENU-RADIAL · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-07-29
Radial pie-menu launchers
Cluster of radial, wheel-style launchers for quickly opening apps, folders, or shortcuts, typically via a hotkey or cursor-centric menu. The pre-index dated history is too thin to discern a trend--only one dated entry exists, so no shape can be read. Among members with activity signals, MiaoQiWheel leads with 4 stars, MacKards has 3 stars, and launchpadx has 1 star.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
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 · 1 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 10 hobby · 2 indie · 1 open source · 2 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01jolt7★21 daysliveindiemacOS launcher that understands plain-language commands to find files, control the system, and run commands inside apps.
- 02MiaoQiWheel11★1 mo—hobbymacOS radial launcher that provides a wheel menu for quickly launching applications and shortcuts.
- 03fsearch-app4★3 days—hobbyMac menu bar launcher that searches file names and file contents instantly from a hotkey.
- 04MacKards3★26 days—hobbyRadial pie-menu launcher that opens around the cursor via hotkey to launch pinned apps, open folders, and drag files with one click.
- 05MacRing2★18 days—hobbymacOS radial quick-launcher that opens apps, files, URLs, shortcuts, and shell commands by holding a hotkey and selecting from a menu.
- 06opie1★2 daysliveindiemacOS utility that opens a circular menu of actions around the cursor when a key is held, letting users launch commands by flicking toward an item.
- 07jolt-app1★23 dayslivemacOS launcher that turns plain-language requests into app launches, menu commands, and system settings actions.
- 08quicklinks1★3 days—hobbymacOS launcher that opens links, folders, or apps by pressing a hotkey and typing a keyword, with a command-line interface for adding shortcuts.
- 09learn0★16 dayslivehobbymacOS launcher that searches and clicks menu commands, on-screen buttons, links, apps, and files in any app by typing what the user sees.
- 10promptbox0★25 days—hobbymacOS launcher that stores reusable prompts and pastes them into the current app with a keyboard shortcut.
- 11radiq0★1 moliveopen sourceRadial application launcher for Hyprland that lets users quickly launch apps from a wheel menu.
- 12quick-panel0★12 days—hobbymacOS launcher that opens apps and websites from a panel summoned by middle-click, with a second layer showing shortcuts for the current application.
- 13actions-ring0★1 mo—hobbyRadial menu launcher for Windows that shows customizable actions and app shortcuts near the cursor for quick execution in the active window.
- 14aihub0★1 mo—hand-codedRadial launcher for Windows with scroll-to-select and drag-to-assign shortcuts.
- 15codex-now0★28 days—hobbymacOS Finder toolbar launcher that opens an AI coding terminal tool in any chosen folder with one click.
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.