A native macOS app launcher and organizer: a pinned grid, categories, spotlight-style search, workspaces, and clipboard history. Arranged the way your day is, held on your own Mac.
Launchpad sorts your apps its way and hides everything else. Vantage is the other idea: a surface you lay out once and reach through every day.
Replaces Launchpad, not the DockA grid you actually arrange: pinned apps, folders, and categories you lay out yourself, instead of an alphabetized dump you fight with. The Dock stays exactly where you like it.
Everything a keystroke awaySpotlight-style search across apps, files, and actions, with a keyboard-first flow. Open Vantage, type a few letters, launch. No reaching for the mouse.
Workspaces, not just appsGroup the apps, files, and links a task needs into one workspace and bring the whole set up at once, so switching context is a single move rather than ten.
Native, and it stays out of the wayA real AppKit app that launches instantly and sits quietly in the menu bar. It is the thing you reach through, not another window to manage.
Features
What it actually does.
The pieces of a launcher you would build for yourself, if you had the time. All native, all keyboard-first, all on your machine.
A grid you organize
Pin what you use, drop the rest into folders and categories, and arrange the whole thing the way your day is actually shaped. It stays put until you change it.
Search that launches
A spotlight-style bar over everything Vantage knows about. Type, filter, and open with the keyboard, without leaving the launcher.
Workspaces
Save a set of apps and files as a workspace and launch it in one move.
Clipboard history
A searchable history of what you copied, one shortcut away, held on your Mac.
Categories
Group apps into categories that make sense to you, not to an app-store taxonomy.
The Shelf
A drag-and-drop stash for files in flight, so a move between apps has somewhere to land.
The details that add up
Leftover-free uninstall that catches the support files a drag-to-Trash leaves behind. Per-app volume so one noisy app is not the whole system. Meeting autopilot and a wallpaper aurora for the small moments in a working day. None of it buried in a settings pane four levels down.
Want to try it early?
Vantage is in active development. Tell us how you organize your Mac and we will bring you in as builds firm up.
