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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

Other products that read as similar to this one — 209 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

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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