Everything on your Mac.
One keystroke away.
A tiny, native launcher. No Electron. No account. No telemetry.
brew install --cask zappale/tap/zappale
brew tap zappale/tap
- Under 100 MB of memory
- Zero dependencies
- Free & open source
- ▸ Ghostty Application ↵
- ▸ GitHub Quicklink ⌘ 1
- ▸ gh pr checkout Command ⌘ K
01 Features
One palette for everything you do all day.
Almost everything ships off until you ask for it, so Zappale is exactly as big as you make it.
App launcher
Fuzzy-search every app and open it with a keystroke. Pin favorites, see what is running, quit without the mouse.
Inline calculator
Math, units, currency and dates like days till 9 Apr, answered right in the search field.
Clipboard history
Text, images, files and colors, searchable and pasted straight back where they came from.
Quick actions
Select text in any app, then fix, rewrite, translate or summarize it with one shortcut.
Fix Grammar · Rewrite · TranslateWindow management
Halves, thirds, nudges and saved layouts — every move from the keyboard, nothing dragged.
Snippets
Markdown templates with placeholders. Type a keyword anywhere and it expands.
!meeting → Sunday, 20 SeptemberEmoji & symbols
Search the whole set. The ones you actually use float to the top.
Themes & appearance
Light, dark and glass. Follow the system or lock the look you like.
Also in the box
- File search
- Quicklinks
- Floating notes
- Calendar & meetings
- System actions
- Per-app hotkeys
- Aliases
- Hyper key
- App uninstaller
- Input source switching
- Backup & restore
- Custom commands
02 In action
The palette, not a video.
These panels are recreated live in HTML and CSS — the same layouts the app draws, rendered right on this page.
- TXTdeploy checklist — final
- URLgithub.com/zappale
- CLR#863BFF
- IMGscreenshot-2148×1302
!intro
Hi! I'm {name} from {team}. Ping me any time — I usually reply within {hours} hours.
03 Privacy
Nothing turns on until you do.
A fresh install is a launcher, a calculator and your clipboard. Everything else waits for you to switch it on — and none of it needs an account.
AI actions
No rewriting, no summarizing and no history file until you turn it on.
Snippets
The only feature that watches typing. Matching stays on your Mac.
Calendar
Explains what it reads before macOS asks. Events never leave.
Clipboard history
On by default, kept on your Mac for 3 months. Password managers are skipped.
Permissions are asked for the moment a feature needs one — never at launch.
04 Keyboard
Built for the keyboard.
Pick one shortcut to summon the palette. Everything after that is a key away, and keys follow their position, so any layout works.
05 Getting started
Up and running in a minute.
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Download & install
Grab the latest disk image from releases and drag Zappale to Applications.
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Press ⌥Space
The palette appears where your cursor is. That is the whole interface.
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Type to launch
Two letters are usually enough. Everything else can wait until you look for it.
“ No account. No telemetry. No nonsense. ”
the whole privacy policy, more or less
Native, end to end
AppKit and Swift, zero third-party dependencies. It opens before Electron has finished thinking about it.
Nothing leaves your Mac
No account, no telemetry, no update pings you did not ask for. AI features stay off until you turn them on.
Open source, MIT
Read every line and build it yourself. The feature set is deliberately small so it stays that way.
Free, and staying free
There is no Pro tier waiting behind a paywall, and there never will be.
Put your Mac on a shorter path.
Zappale is free and open source, with no account and no telemetry. If it earns a place on your Mac, star the project to keep development going.