Arci
Instant, private Mac launcher with AI and custom actions
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Arci is a fast, free launcher for macOS. Press one shortcut to open apps, calculate, convert units and currencies, check time zones, search files, ask AI, set timers, and paste from encrypted clipboard history. AI runs on-device with Apple Intelligence, or bring your own Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or OpenRouter key. Build custom actions in plain JSON, or describe one and let Arci Builder write it. No account, no analytics, no tracking. Your data stays on your Mac.
PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 6%) · 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
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Artificial Intelligence
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More like this: all 233 launches in application and game launchers →
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS launcher with a global shortcut, app launching, calculators, file search, and an AI call-out is a well-known product category. Vibe coding can build it in Swift, and the AI features wrap existing model APIs or Apple's on-device model.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 233 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #62 of 234 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 339 days after the earliest competitor.
- ArcPad · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Alfredo · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Arc · ph · 2026-09-28 · 76 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Open Arc · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SpaceO · ph · 2026-10-31 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Arca by Brevis · ph · 2026-11-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Glide · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Palm · ph · 2026-10-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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