The open source launcher for macOS.

One hotkey, one search: your apps, commands, quicklinks and System Settings, and Raycast extensions, unmodified.

Free under AGPL-3.0, with no analytics and no account. Floe is early, and made by the people who make Thaw.

Install

Floe 0.1.0. Open the disk image and move Floe to Applications.

Download Floe
Needs
macOS 26 or later
Floe is signed and notarized, and updates itself.
Needs
Accessibility
The one permission Floe requires. Calendar, Reminders and Contacts are optional.
Know first
Floe is early
Extensions are not sandboxed, so install only the ones you trust.

Try it in your browser firstFloe documentation

Features

  1. One hotkey, one search

    Apps, commands, quicklinks and System Settings panes, ranked by how often and how recently you use them. Give the ones you use most an alias or a hotkey.

  2. Runs Raycast extensions

    Unmodified, including the ones Raycast has already installed. An Extension Store page installs and updates them.

  3. The basics, built in

    Snippets, emoji, file search, calendar, a calculator with unit conversion, system commands, and your shortcuts from Apple’s Shortcuts app, run by name.

  4. Your own apps

    Pick the terminal, editor, browser, notes app and clipboard manager you already use, and Floe hands work to them.

  5. Ask AI

    Type ask and a question, and the answer shows in the launcher. You choose who answers, and a switch keeps all AI on your Mac.

  6. Private

    No analytics, no telemetry, no account. A Privacy page in Settings lists every permission and everything Floe contacts.

Also in Floe

Search

  • Aliases and hotkeys
  • Favorites
  • Scopes for files, menus and tabs
  • Open browser tabs
  • Web apps
  • Search history

Commands

  • Shell commands
  • Saved commands
  • Script commands
  • Manual pages
  • Checkpoints
  • Receipts, with undo

Day to day

  • Reminders
  • Calendar events
  • Timers
  • Contacts
  • Mail and message drafts
  • Notes, and daily notes

Built in

  • Calculator and unit conversion
  • Currency conversion
  • Dictionary
  • Snippets
  • Quicklinks
  • Emoji and symbols
  • File search

System

  • Media controls
  • Focus
  • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
  • Sleep, lock and volume
  • Quit a process
  • What is on a port

Extensions and AI

  • Extension Store
  • Extension menu bar commands
  • What each extension reached
  • Follow-up questions
  • Apple Intelligence
  • All AI on your Mac

Works with

Raycast is a trademark of Raycast Technologies Inc. Floe is not affiliated with Raycast.

Verified

Incoming.

Floe is early, and we are committed to bringing it on par with Thaw in this area.

See where Thaw stands

Try it before you install it.

Things to try

  • Type “settings” and press Return
  • Search the web with a quicklink
  • Press Control-Option-Space to close and reopen it

This is Floe, rebuilt in the browser. It is too small to use on a phone: open this page on a Mac to type into it.

Floe’s launcher open under a menu bar, with a Dock below