Relay v0.1.0 · Preview 1

First preview release (pre-release) of Relay — a native macOS global app switcher with scene-based Profiles of global hotkeys, living in the menu bar. Local / self-use; not on the Mac App Store.

✨ Features in this build

• Scene-based Profiles (hotkey groups) — group bindings by workflow and switch the whole set at once; only the active Profile's hotkeys are registered.
• Global hotkeys via KeyboardShortcuts (Carbon) — no Accessibility / Input Monitoring permission needed. Duplicate combos within a Profile are detected.
• State-aware activation behaviors (named, reusable):
  • Not running → Launch & Focus · Launch in Background · Do Nothing
  • Background → Focus · Show Without Focus · Minimize
  • Frontmost → Return to Previous · Hide · Quit · Minimize · Do Nothing
• Return to Previous — flips back to your last app (depth-2 MRU, like ⌘-Tab).
• Menu-bar agent + management window — Profiles sidebar (keyboard nav, inline rename), shortcut recorder, optional Dock icon.
• Settings — Launch at login, Dock icon; interface language (English / 简体中文 / 繁體中文).
• Optional Minimize via Accessibility — requested lazily on first use, never at launch; the app stays fully usable without it.
• Local-first — no accounts, no network, no telemetry.

🚀 How to launch

1. Download Relay-v0.1.0-preview.1.dmg below and open it.
2. Drag Relay into Applications.
3. First launch: this build is signed with a personal Apple Development certificate and is not notarized, so Gatekeeper blocks it. Right-click the app → Open → Open. If still refused, run once:

   xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Relay.app

Or build from source: open Relay/Relay.xcodeproj → ⌘R.

Requirements: Apple Silicon · macOS 26.5+