Launchie 1.6.1
Launchpad Replacement for MacOS 27 Golden Gate
Details
- External ID
- 1255249
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Launchie 1.6.1
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 104
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9867436390848835
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Apple
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26 and kept it out of 27. Launchie brings the grid back: arrange apps your way, unlimited folders, Spaces for separate app pages, and instant search. Free to use, Pro is a one-time purchase. Mac App Store and Homebrew.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS utilities and system tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- launchpad replacement for macos users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a native macOS application that presents an application launcher grid by querying installed `.app` bundles, categorizing them, and presenting an AppKit/SwiftUI interface.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 169 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #5 of 170 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
- IconPane · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- ModusPad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- StartPad - A Launchpad for Windows · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Launchpad · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Orbit Dock Pro · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Launchpad Development · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- LaunchMon · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- FingerChord.app · github · 2026-09-15 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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