ModusPad
Launchpad is back, and now it switches with your work
Details
- External ID
- 1263800
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ModusPad
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
macOS Tahoe replaced Launchpad with the Apps view. ModusPad brings the full-screen app grid back with pages, folders, search, drag & drop, and one-click import of your old Launchpad layout. But it goes beyond recreating Launchpad: profiles like Work, Home, or Studio each have their own layout, hidden apps, and apps to launch, and switch automatically with Focus modes, connected displays, or schedules. Built for macOS 26 & 27. No account required. Free for 14 days, then a one-time purchase.
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS notch and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- context-aware app launcher for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a custom full-screen macOS overlay launcher requires deep native macOS AppKit/SwiftUI engineering, private APIs, and window management hooks that AI coding struggles to reliably implement without platform expertise.
What it would actually take: Requires native Swift/AppKit development interacting with macOS accessibility APIs, Workspace APIs, and parsing legacy Launchpad SQLite databases (`/private/var/folders/.../com.apple.dock.launchpad/db/db`). The hard parts involve fluid multi-monitor window management, smooth full-screen gestures intercepting Dock/Mission Control behaviors, and reliable drag-and-drop icon arrangement without causing OS-level graphical glitches.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #39 of 210 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
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