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Lodestar
A fast, open-source launcher for your Mac
Press ⌥ Space, type a few letters, press Return. Lodestar opens apps, searches your clipboard history, pastes emoji and symbols, does quick math and picks colors on screen. Free and MIT-licensed, for macOS 13+. It all runs on your Mac: no account, no tracking.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Animesh. I built Lodestar because I wanted a fast, keyboard-first launcher for my Mac that was free, open source, and didn't need an account.
Press ⌥ Space and type a few letters. It opens apps and learns which ones you use most, keeps a clipboard history you can paste from with Return, finds emoji and symbols by name, does quick math, picks colors from the screen, and runs commands like Lock or Empty Trash. You can add your own commands with shell scripts or extensions in any language.
Everything stays on your Mac: no account, no analytics, no tracking. The only network request it makes on its own is a daily update check to GitHub, and you can turn that off. It's MIT-licensed and runs on macOS 13+.
I'd love your feedback, especially on what's missing from your daily workflow. Snippets and quicklinks are next on the roadmap. Issues and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.
About Lodestar on Product Hunt
“A fast, open-source launcher for your Mac”
Lodestar was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Press ⌥ Space, type a few letters, press Return. Lodestar opens apps, searches your clipboard history, pastes emoji and symbols, does quick math and picks colors on screen. Free and MIT-licensed, for macOS 13+. It all runs on your Mac: no account, no tracking.
On the analytics side, Lodestar competes within Mac, Productivity, Open Source and GitHub — topics that collectively have 879.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Lodestar performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Lodestar?
Lodestar was hunted by Animesh Mondal. 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.
For a complete overview of Lodestar including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Animesh Mondal
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Animesh. I built Lodestar because I wanted a fast, keyboard-first launcher for my Mac that was free, open source, and didn't need an account.
Press ⌥ Space and type a few letters. It opens apps and learns which ones you use most, keeps a clipboard history you can paste from with Return, finds emoji and symbols by name, does quick math, picks colors from the screen, and runs commands like Lock or Empty Trash. You can add your own commands with shell scripts or extensions in any language.
Everything stays on your Mac: no account, no analytics, no tracking. The only network request it makes on its own is a daily update check to GitHub, and you can turn that off. It's MIT-licensed and runs on macOS 13+.
I'd love your feedback, especially on what's missing from your daily workflow. Snippets and quicklinks are next on the roadmap. Issues and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.