Tapbar
Turn any screen area into an app shortcut
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A simple app to launch any app from the status bar or anywhere on your screen. It's free, offline and open-source, no ads -Earendel-lab/Tapbar
PH · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 1 view
Niche: application and game launchers · 233 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -84% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
- Tech
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More like this: all 233 launches in application and game launchers →
Could you build this?
Yes A small native utility app (Android or desktop) that registers global touch overlays or status bar icons to trigger app launch intents.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 373 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #307 of 374 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 267 days after the earliest competitor.
- Tapbar · github · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- LaunchHere · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- PocketBar · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Quick Launch · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TapTick · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- snapdock · github · 2026-10-21 · 110 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- DockTouchBar · github · 2026-09-26 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Keyly · ph · 2026-10-23 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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