ApolloShell
Caelestia-inspired desktop shell for macOS 26 Tahoe: sidebar with its own dock, launcher, dashboard, quick actions and a settings app. Native Swift, English and German.
Details
- External ID
- 1370049625
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- ApolloShell
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5194722008711248
- Tags
- appkit, caelestia, desktop-shell, dock, dotfiles, launcher, liquid-glass, macos, macos-app, macos-tahoe, swift, swiftui
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- desktop shell and sidebar launcher for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS desktop shell built in Swift/AppKit that creates non-activating overlay panels and reads system statistics using standard macOS system APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 85 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #43 of 86 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 282 days after the earliest competitor.
- ApolloShell · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.83
- IconPane · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ModusPad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- MacStatusBarAndDock · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- BarBar-support · github · 2026-09-18 · 55 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards · hn · 2026-07-23 · 45 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- shell · github · 2026-09-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- omacale · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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