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Launchpad is back, plus one-keystroke workspaces
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macOS 26 took Launchpad away. keytide brings the full-screen app grid back with your own folders and order, typo-proof search and Launchpad import. Workspaces open a whole task in one keystroke: apps, files, links and window layout. Ask keytide sets up your Mac from a sentence, on-device. Desk time machine, auto-workspaces, Focus filters, Siri and Spotlight. No telemetry, no account. One payment, no subscription.
PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 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?
Yes A native macOS app that rebuilds a Launchpad-style app grid, folders, and workspaces is mostly UI and window/app management. The on-device AI setup can use a local model API, and nothing requires a dataset or infrastructure a solo builder couldn't assemble.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 633 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #339 of 634 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 351 days after the earliest competitor.
- ModusPad · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- Liftoff · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- IconPane · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Launchie 1.6.1 · ph · 2026-09-20 · 104 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- CubbyPad · ph · 2026-10-31 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- LaunchHome · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- LaunchMe - Workspace Manager macOS 26-27 · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- StartPad - A Launchpad for Windows · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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