Jolt 0.3.0

Download jolt-0.3.0-beta.dmg below. Jolt needs macOS 14 or later and updates itself after that.

Changes

The public beta. Jolt is free while it lasts, and you no longer need a TypeSafe API key.

• Plain-language search works without a key of your own: Jolt asks Jev through its own service. The api-key file of 0.2.0 is no longer read, and you can delete it.
• Files, a third scope. Tab moves between the menus of the app you are in, the Mac, and Files, and a space in an empty field goes straight to Files. Find a file by its name, or turn on Find files with Jev in Settings › Privacy to describe it. Command-C copies the file, Command-Shift-C copies its path, and you can drag a row out of the panel.
• Web search: "!g", "!yt", "!w" and the other bangs search Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Amazon, Reddit, Maps, X, IMDb, Spotify, or DuckDuckGo in your browser. Jev picks the site when you describe the search instead.
• Actions that take a value: "keep awake for 35 minutes", "volume 20", "screenshot window in 5s". The value is read on the Mac.
• Actions of your apps, read from their scripting dictionaries: "spotify next", "dark mode on", "make the dock hide itself". Jolt never offers one that deletes, erases, quits, or logs out.
• A Lock Screen action.
• A settings window, from the bolt menu or with Command-Comma, with Launch at login.
• One shortcut to open Jolt, Command-Space unless you record another in Settings › General. The [ key, Option-Space, and Control-Option-J no longer open it. If Spotlight still has Command-Space, change one of the two.
• Menu items that are your data, such as recent documents, history, bookmarks, and window names, stay on the Mac and out of the requests to Jev. Turn this off in Settings › Privacy.
• The panel starts small and grows with the results, takes the color of the app in front, and remembers where you moved it on each display.
• An app you install shows up without restarting Jolt.