Tapbar
Turn any screen area into an app shortcut
Details
- External ID
- 1260602
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tapbar
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Productivity, Open Source, GitHub, Tech
- Fetched at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 26, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- screen-based shortcut launcher for desktop users
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 173 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #97 of 174 (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 0.81
- Quick Launch · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- TapTick · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- DockTouchBar · github · 2026-09-26 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Drape · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- StartPad - A Launchpad for Windows · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Captain Kill Switch · ph · 2026-09-12 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Free App Screenshots · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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