A tiny, fully native macOS launcher — fuzzy app search, clipboard history, an inline calculator, snippets, and window management, with no Electron and no telemetry.
Tinycast is a native macOS launcher built with SwiftUI and AppKit — no Electron, no account, and no telemetry. A global hotkey opens a floating command palette for launching apps, searching files, running calculations, and digging into a searchable clipboard history, all while staying under 100MB of RAM.
Why it makes the list
Most Raycast-style launchers ask you to hand over an account and run a background service. Tinycast goes the other way: a from-scratch Swift app with zero third-party dependencies, open source under AGPL-3.0, that still covers the same ground — extensions, window management, snippets, and an inline calculator — and can import an existing Raycast setup in one step.
Standout features
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Fuzzy app launcher with pinning, quitting, and per-app hotkeys
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Searchable clipboard history for text and images
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Inline calculator with unit, currency, and crypto conversions
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Markdown snippets with nested placeholders, expanded entirely on-device
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34 window management actions in the style of Rectangle
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Raycast extension support, plus one-click import of an existing Raycast setup
Pricing
Free and open source under AGPL-3.0, distributed via Homebrew or a signed DMG. The developer accepts optional one-time tips through Polar — there's no paid tier.
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