AppsMenu

A lightweight macOS application launcher and menu for quickly accessing your installed apps.

AppsMenu provides a simple way to organize and launch macOS applications, with user-defined categories and a native macOS app icon.

✨ Features

• 🚀 Quickly access installed macOS applications
• 📂 Organize applications into custom categories
• 💾 Category settings are stored in UserDefaults
• 🔄 Settings survive reinstallations
• 🎨 Native macOS application icon
• 🔐 Local ad-hoc code signing during installation
• 🔎 Refreshes macOS Launch Services after installation
• 🧩 Simple installation and uninstall scripts
• 🛠️ Open source under the GNU GPL v3.0 license

📸 Preview

AppsMenu.mov

📦 Installation

Requirements

• macOS
• Swift / Apple's command-line development tools

Install

Download or clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/AndrisLicitis/AppsMenu.git
cd AppsMenu

Make the scripts executable:

chmod +x install.sh uninstall.sh

Run the installer:

./install.sh

The installer builds AppsMenu.app, installs it to /Applications, applies a local ad-hoc signature and refreshes macOS Launch Services.

Uninstall

From the project directory, run:

./uninstall.sh

🧑‍💻 Development

The main application source code is located in:

Sources/
└── AppsMenu.swift

The project is intentionally lightweight so that it can be easily understood, modified and improved.

If you have an idea for a new feature, bug fix or performance improvement, feel free to open an Issue or submit a Pull Request.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome!

You can contribute by:

• 🐛 Reporting bugs
• 💡 Suggesting new features
• ⚡ Improving performance
• 🎨 Improving the user interface
• 🧹 Cleaning up or improving the code
• 🧪 Adding tests
• 🔧 Submitting Pull Requests

Pull Request workflow

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your changes.
3. Make and test your changes.
4. Commit your changes.
5. Open a Pull Request.

Please keep changes focused and explain what your contribution improves.

🗺️ Roadmap

Possible future improvements include:

• Better application search
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Favorites
• Drag-and-drop category management
• Improved application discovery
• More customization options
• Improved macOS integration
• Performance improvements
• Additional UI improvements

The roadmap is open to community ideas.

📄 License

AppsMenu is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.

See the LICENSE file for the full license text.

⭐ Support the Project

If you find AppsMenu useful, consider giving the repository a ⭐ on GitHub.

Bug reports, ideas and Pull Requests are also very welcome.

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AppsMenu — a simple, lightweight way to organize and launch your macOS apps.