Every app,
one keystroke away.
Gaka is a fast, native app launcher for Mac. Hit ⌃Space, type a few letters, press Return. It learns what you reach for and puts it first — then gets out of your way.
Small, sharp, and fast.
Nothing that gets in the way.
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Summon from anywhere
A global hotkey (⌃Space) brings Gaka up over whatever you’re doing. No Dock icon, no menu bar — just there the instant you need it.
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Fuzzy search
Type a few letters in any order. “sfr” finds Safari, and the letters you matched light up so you can see why.
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Learns your habits
Frecency ranking quietly boosts the apps you open most, and most recently — so your top hit is usually just one keystroke.
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Speaks your language
Apps show their names in your system language — “Kalender”, not “Calendar” — while still matching what you type in English.
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Keyboard-first
Return to launch, Shift to expand the results, arrows to move, ⌘1–9 to jump straight to any hit. Your hands never leave home row.
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Arc-inspired themes
Soft color gradients with a fine film grain, layered over live desktop glass. Light and dark, tuned to taste.
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Fast & native
Built in Swift on AppKit — no Electron. It reads your apps once at launch, caches icons, and shows the top hit before you finish typing.
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Private & sandboxed
Runs in Apple’s App Sandbox and needs no Accessibility access. It reads your Applications folder — nothing else.
It's early. That's the point.
Gaka is in active alpha, so expect a few rough edges. If something breaks, feels wrong, or is just missing — tell me. Every report genuinely steers where it goes next.
- 1 Make it your launcher
Use it for a day or two. The bugs that matter show up in real use.
- 2 Note what broke
A sentence and, if you can, what you did right before is plenty.
- 3 Send it over
Open an issue or email. I read all of them.
Get Gaka
Free while it's in alpha. Launch it once, press ⌃Space, and you're off. Updates arrive automatically, so you're always on the latest build.