You know what you need. Not what it's called.
CueStart finds your apps by keywords you write yourself. "invoice", "crop an image", "chart" — press the shortcut, type, hit Return. For the Mac, no account, no subscription.
CueStart finds your apps by keywords you write yourself. "invoice", "crop an image", "chart" — press the shortcut, type, hit Return. For the Mac, no account, no subscription.
Spotlight searches names. CueStart searches what you noted down about an app.
For every app you write down, at your leisure, what you use it for. The search covers keywords and names at once — and several words can be combined.
A shortcut of your choosing brings the search to the middle of the screen — whichever app happens to be in front. Option and Space is preset. Further shortcuts open your apps, your snippets or the clipboard straight away.
Launch an app for a search text and it comes first next time. Return then hits the right one straight away.
Read in all your apps at once, or pick them one by one. Whatever gets installed later, CueStart picks up on its own — the application folders are watched while it runs.
Coloured dots in the list show what has just arrived and where keywords are still missing. You decide when the New marker disappears.
If an app disappears from your Mac, your entry stays and is marked as not installed. Your work isn't gone just because you might want that app again later.
Apps you never want to launch go on an exclusion list and stop turning up. Remove an entry and the app is right back.
Your keywords, the exclusions and every setting in a single file. When you read it back you decide: replace or merge. On a merge the newer comment wins.
Put a “>” in front of your search text and CueStart searches your text snippets instead of your apps. Return puts the text on the clipboard.
The search window with translucent material, with a fine grain in eight colours, or in a solid colour — plus three shapes from square to very rounded.
If you want it to, CueStart keeps what you copy — text and images alike. A “#” in the search window brings it all back, and you can add your own keywords. Password managers are left out.
Pin the entries that matter — they stay until you delete them. Tags are suggested as you type and managed in one place: renaming one changes it everywhere. And you can drag an entry straight from the results into another app.
A “:” in the search window, and every running app is there — the one you used last on top. Keep typing to narrow it down, Return brings the app forward.
The search window — matches come from names and your own keywords.
The running apps — called up with “:” in the search window.
Editing snippets — called up with “>” in the search window.
The clipboard — called up with “#” in the search window.
CueStart is a real Mac app. No web view, no Electron, no cross-platform trick.
No account, no tracking, no cloud. Your keywords live in a file inside the app's own area — CueStart sends nothing anywhere.
Fully translated into German, English, Danish, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish and Simplified Chinese. Switch language while it runs, without a restart.
You choose the appearance, and it applies to the search window too. And if CueStart should only live in the menu bar, just hide the Dock icon.
The more apps on your Mac, the bigger the gain.
That small app which does exactly one thing — and whose name you've forgotten four months later. The keyword brings it back.
Three apps can crop an image. Give them all the same keyword and choose at the moment you search.
"merge PDF" instead of a product name someone in marketing thought up. You think in tasks, not in brands.
Read the backup, read your apps, done. Your keywords hang on the app's identifier, not on a place on the disk.
The list shows what you have never commented on. Often the very apps you never use either.
Shortcut, a few letters, Return. Your hands stay on the keyboard and the window disappears by itself.
CueStart is on the Mac App Store — for macOS, no account, no subscription.