v0.1.0 — Initial Release

First release of Launcher — a minimal, fast macOS app launcher.

Install

1. Download Launcher-v0.1.0.zip
2. Unzip, drag Launcher.app to /Applications
3. First launch: right-click → Open (ad-hoc signed, Gatekeeper needs the override once)
4. Right-click dock icon → Options → Keep in Dock

Features

• Cold start < 30 ms, search < 1 ms per query
• Fuzzy matching (ntn → Notion, fndr → Finder)
• Keyboard layout swap (type тщешщт on Russian layout → finds Notion)
• Auto-reindex via FSEvents (new apps appear without relaunch)
• Recents boost
• Indexes /Applications, ~/Applications, /System/Applications, Utilities, Setapp, Finder

Requirements

• macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel (universal binary)

Verify

shasum -a 256 Launcher-v0.1.0.zip
6982aad9551954b7630b475ab3a42533124b07310e9791a08bd27244e8c399da

See README for usage and CLI diagnostic flags.