App launching
Type two letters, open anything installed. Favorites stay pinned; quitting is a keystroke.
gho⌥ Space
- gho↵
- GitHub · Quicklink⌘ 1
- gh pr checkout · Command⌘ K
Zappale · macOS launcher
The shortest path across your Mac.
One small palette: launch apps, run arithmetic, recall anything you copied, expand snippets and arrange windows — a few keystrokes away. Native, open source, no account.
- Native AppKit
- Open source
- No account
gho⌥ Space
- GhosttyApplication↵
- GitHubQuicklink⌘ 1
- gh pr checkoutCommand⌘ K
↵ Open⌘ K ActionsTab Switch
Features
A small palette with a long reach.
Every capability below is built in, and none of it gets in the way until you call for it.
Arithmetic & conversions
Sums, percentages, units and date math resolve as you type — no second app.
1250 × 24 + 8%32,400.00
Clipboard recall
Text, links, images and colors you copy stay on your Mac, searchable, ready to paste again.
- TXTdeploy checklist — final
- URLgithub.com/zappale
- CLR#0073E5
Snippets
Short keywords expand into the paragraphs you type every day, with fill-in placeholders.
!intro
Hi! I'm {name} from {team}. I usually reply within {hours} hours.
Window arrangement
Halves, thirds, centering and nudges — move and size windows entirely from the keyboard.
½⅓⅓⅓
Quick links
The sites and searches you visit often, opened straight from the palette.
- GitHub⌘ 1
- Mail⌘ 2
Symbols & emoji
Search the whole set by name; the ones you actually use rise to the top.
🚀⌘⌥✓…
System actions
Lock, sleep, empty the trash, eject a disk — without hunting the menu bar.
- Sleep↵
- Lock↵
- Empty Trash↵
Keyboard
The keyboard is the interface.
One shortcut summons the palette; everything after that is a key away. Shortcuts follow key positions, so non-US layouts work unchanged.
⌥SpaceSummon or dismiss the palette
↵Run the highlighted result
⌘↵Run the alternate action
⌘KOpen the actions menu for a result
TabMove between launcher, clipboard and calculator
⌘1…0Open a favorite directly
escClear the field, step back, then close
Principles
Quiet by design.
Three rules the app is built around, and the whole privacy story in practice.
Local by default
Your clippings, snippets and settings live on your Mac. There is no account to create and no copy of your data anywhere else.
Silent unless invited
No usage analytics and no behavioural tracking. The app does its work on your machine; the network is not part of the loop.
Permission at the moment of use
Features ask for macOS access the first time you actually use them — not in a wall of dialogs on first launch.
Wondering about a specific permission? The repository is the source of truth.
Getting started
Three steps and you're in.
Get the app
Grab the latest build from GitHub and drop it into Applications.
Summon it
Press ⌥ Space. A small palette appears in the middle of your screen — that is the whole interface.
Type two letters
That is genuinely the entire tutorial. Everything else waits where you can find it.
Free, open source, built in public.
If Zappale earns a place in your workflow, a star on GitHub keeps it moving.