ModusPad
Launchpad is back, and now it switches with your work
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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.
PH · launched Sep 29, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
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
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 233 launches in application and game launchers →
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 : 501 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #115 of 502 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
- IconPane · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- Launchie 1.6.1 · ph · 2026-09-20 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- Liftoff · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- keytide · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- CubbyPad · ph · 2026-10-31 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- LaunchHome · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- ArcPad · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- StartPad - A Launchpad for Windows · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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