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MenuSearch
Search, calculate, go. From the menu bar.
Press Option-Space anywhere and a search field drops down from the menu bar. Find apps and the files you used recently, work out a sum as you type, or jump to a website, all from one field.
A menu bar app · Apple silicon · Searches stay on your Mac
What it does
What MenuSearch does
A keyboard-first search box for people who’d rather type than click, and who paste results into other apps.
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Option-Space, anywhere
Opens and closes the search from any app. If another app already uses Option-Space, the right-click menu tells you. The shortcut can’t be changed in this version.
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Find apps fast
Searches Spotlight for apps, ignoring case and accents and matching the start of any word in the name. Exact matches rank first, duplicates show once and helper apps stay hidden.
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Recent files first
Files you’ve opened rank first, newest on top, with a Finder-style location. System and Library folders, app bundles and developer clutter such as node_modules are left out; iCloud Drive is kept.
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Math as you type
Arithmetic, powers, percentages (“15% of 80”), roots, trig in degrees, logarithms and rounding, with pi, e and tau. Return or Command-C copies the result as a plain number.
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Sites and web searches
Type something that looks like a web address to open it. Anything else ends with a Search the web result that opens in your default browser.
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Keyboard first
Arrow keys or Tab move the selection, Return opens, Command-Return shows a file in Finder, and Escape clears, then closes. Focus goes back to the app you were in.
Permissions and privacy
Nothing to allow, nothing sent
- No permissions to grant. The global shortcut uses a system hotkey that doesn’t need Accessibility access. Open at Login, in the right-click menu, is the only optional setting.
- Searches stay on your Mac. MenuSearch searches your Mac’s own Spotlight index. It has no analytics and no accounts, and goes online only when you pick a web result, which opens in your browser.
- The clipboard only when you ask. A calculator result is copied only when you press Return or Command-C.
Details
- Version
- 1.0
- Status
- Beta
- Requires
- macOS 14 or later
- Processor
- Apple silicon
- Shortcut
- Option-Space
- Lives in
- The menu bar (no Dock icon)
- Data collected
- None
- Price
- Announced at launch
- Developer
- Xenoplexus Studios
MenuSearch is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc. Spotlight, Finder, Mac and macOS are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Join the MenuSearch beta
MenuSearch is in beta. Leave your email and we’ll send you a download link as soon as there’s a beta build for you to try.
Beta builds need a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
