Around 1 MB on disk and under 100 MB of RAM — no Electron, no telemetry, no background CPU churn. Just SwiftUI + AppKit with zero dependencies. It's fast because there's nothing to it.

Features

App launcher — fuzzy-search and launch anything, pin favorites, see what's running.
Calculator — do math and unit conversions inline, right in the palette.
Clipboard history — text and images, searchable, pasted back into the app you were using.
Global hotkey — one shortcut summons the palette from anywhere.
Per-app hotkeys — bind a key to an app; press it to toggle (focus/hide).

Install

brew tap abue-ammar/tinycast
brew install --cask tinycast          # stable
brew install --cask tinycast@alpha    # alpha  (installs side-by-side)
brew install --cask tinycast@beta     # beta   (installs side-by-side)

Each channel is a separate app (Tinycast.app, Tinycast Alpha.app, Tinycast Beta.app) with its own settings and permissions, so you can run stable next to a pre-release.

Tinycast has no Apple Developer ID and isn't notarized (there's no $99/yr account behind it), so macOS quarantines it on install. Clear the flag once — the cask prints this too:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Tinycast.app"

Permissions

Accessibility — needed only so Tinycast can paste a clipboard item back into the app you came from. You're prompted the first time you paste; grant it in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility.

Using it

Open Settings → General and record a global shortcut to summon Tinycast.
Press it anywhere → the palette floats in. Type to filter, ↩ to launch.
Tab switches between Apps and Clipboard; ↑/↓ move, Esc dismisses.
Settings → App Hotkeys — search an app and record a shortcut to toggle it.

Building from source

See docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for the toolchain, build, packaging, release, and website workflows, and DESIGN.md for the UI design system.

License

AGPL-3.0