Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26 and kept it out of 27. Launchie brings the grid back: arrange apps your way, unlimited folders, Spaces for separate app pages, and instant search. Free to use, Pro is a one-time purchase. Mac App Store and Homebrew.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
I'm Nick, and I build Launchie on my own.
When macOS 26 Tahoe removed Launchpad, I lost the way I'd opened apps for years: a grid I had arranged myself, with folders I could find without reading a single name. Apple's replacement, the Apps view in Spotlight, sorts everything for you and doesn't let you make folders. macOS 27 kept it that way.
So I built the Launchpad I missed, and then kept going:
🗂 Your own layout: drag apps anywhere, with unlimited folders, all free
🧭 Spaces: separate pages of apps for work, games or design, switched with a swipe
🔎 Instant search and Quick Access for recent and most-used apps
🖼 Pro: your wallpaper blurred behind the grid like the original, hot corners, hidden apps, and a pinch gesture that opens Launchie instead of Apps. One-time purchase, no subscription.
It's on the Mac App Store, as a direct download, and on Homebrew (brew install --cask launchie).
Since the 2025 launch, most of the new features have come from user requests, so I'd love to hear yours: what did you use Launchpad for, and what's still missing?
About Launchie 1.6.1 on Product Hunt
“Launchpad Replacement for MacOS 27 Golden Gate”
Launchie 1.6.1 launched on Product Hunt on September 20th, 2026 and earned 76 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26 and kept it out of 27. Launchie brings the grid back: arrange apps your way, unlimited folders, Spaces for separate app pages, and instant search. Free to use, Pro is a one-time purchase. Mac App Store and Homebrew.
On the analytics side, Launchie 1.6.1 competes within Mac, Productivity and Apple — topics that collectively have 780.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Launchie 1.6.1 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Launchie 1.6.1?
Launchie 1.6.1 was hunted by Nick Friedrich. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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