TapTick
The swiss army knife for Mac
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An app launcher, script runner, menu bar customizer, and utilities hub. The swiss army knife for Mac. TapTick brings four essential Mac workflows together: - Applications: Launch, focus, or hide any app with a global shortcut. - Scripts: Write scripts then run them globally or display result in menu bar. - Menu Bar: Show live script output in customizable one-line or two-line slots. - Utilities: Keep focused Mac tools one shortcut away. Screen capture and mark, Large Type, and Keystroke Overlay.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 2 views
Niche: macos system utilities · 448 launches, 31 in the last 7 days ▼ -30% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
- OpenAI Day
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More like this: all 448 launches in macos system utilities →
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu bar app that runs shell scripts and registers global shortcuts can be quickly scaffolded via Swift/SwiftUI or Tauri using standard macOS Cocoa accessibility and system APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 928 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #783 of 929 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 293 days after the earliest competitor.
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- lidtap · github · 2026-10-30 · 119 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- sidelet · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Initials · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Shortcuts in Menu Bar · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- HGesture · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Glide · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Scriptlet · ph · 2026-09-22 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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