LaunchHome
Feels like Apple never removed Launchpad
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Launchpad has been gone since macOS 26. LaunchHome has everything it had: full-screen app grid, folders, drag to arrange, instant search, and the same look and feel. Plus what Launchpad never had: widgets (calculator, clock, clipboard history), files, links and Shortcuts right in the grid, and custom icons with clean uninstall. And it stays light: about 100 MB of memory, a 4 MB download. One license covers up to 3 Macs. Made by an indie dev who missed Launchpad too.
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PH · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Menu Bar Apps
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Yes A macOS app-launcher grid with folders, search, and widgets is UI-heavy SwiftUI work using public APIs to enumerate apps, which a solo builder can vibe-code in weeks.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 293 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #168 of 294 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 329 days after the earliest competitor.
- Launchie 1.6.1 · ph · 2026-09-20 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.75
- Liftoff · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- ModusPad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- IconPane · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- StartPad - A Launchpad for Windows · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- ArcPad · ph · 2026-10-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Liftoff · github · 2026-10-01 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- TinyFolder · ph · 2026-10-04 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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- External ID
- 1279768
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- LaunchHeat
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- All tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- AI summary
- app launcher utility for macos users
- Manually corrected
- No