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Runlee. A fast, private launcher for your desktop.

Find apps and files, paste from your clipboard history, arrange windows and do quick maths from one small window, without leaving the keyboard.

We’ll only email you about the beta.

Available for
macOS 13 or later
Coming to
Windows and Linux
Written in
Rust
The Runlee launcher with an empty search field. Under Suggestions: Google Chrome, Slack and Visual Studio Code. Under Recent Files: two screenshots on the Desktop, and Q4 Product Roadmap.pdf and invoice-2026-10.pdf in Downloads.

01 / Features

Every feature is built in, so there’s nothing extra to install or review.

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    Preview and open with

    Preview a file without opening it, or show it in its folder. Files and folders can also go straight to your editor, your terminal or any other app you add to the config.

    The actions menu for Q4 Planning Report.key in Runlee: Open, Reveal in Finder, Copy Path, Open With, Open with Visual Studio Code and Open with Zed.
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    Clipboard history

    Runlee keeps what you copy, including text, images and files, so you can search it and paste it again. Pin the things you reuse. Copies from password managers are never recorded, and neither is anything that looks like a password or API key.

    Runlee’s clipboard history: recent copies from Figma, Safari, Terminal, Visual Studio Code, Finder and Slack, with a copied SQL query previewed on the right.
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    Window management

    Snap the window you were using to halves, thirds or quarters, maximize it, center it or move it to another display.

    Try typing
    • left half
    • maximize
    • next display
    Runlee searching for “left”: Left Half, Left Third, Left Two Thirds, Bottom Left Quarter and Top Left Quarter.
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    Calculator

    Runlee answers maths as you type, along with unit and number base conversions, dates and time zones. Currency conversion works once you turn it on, since it needs the network.

    Try typing
    • 5 km to mi
    • today + 45 days
    • 3pm london in warsaw
    Runlee answering “3pm london in warsaw” with 16:00 Warsaw.
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    Screenshots

    Capture the whole screen, an area or a single window, and save it to a file or copy it to the clipboard. Your newest screenshots show up in Recent Files.

    Try typing
    • capture
    Runlee searching for “capture”: Capture Selected Area, Capture Area to Clipboard, Capture Entire Screen, Capture Screen to Clipboard and Capture Window.
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    System commands

    Lock the screen, sleep, restart, shut down or log out. You can also empty the trash, eject disks, switch dark mode and quit or force quit a running app. Commands that could lose your work ask first.

    Try typing
    • lock
    • empty trash
    • quit
    Runlee’s help page for system commands: lock, dark mode, Lock Screen, Sleep, Sleep Displays and Restart.
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    One config file

    All settings are in one commented text file that you can edit in any editor and keep with your dotfiles. Changes apply when you save. If you make a mistake, Runlee tells you and keeps using the last version that worked.

    theme = "system"

[calc]
# Runlee makes no network requests unless this is true.
currency = false

[clipboard]
max_days = 7
skip_secrets = true

[files]
roots = ["~"]
exclude = ["node_modules", "target", ".git"]

[[quicklinks]]
name = "GitHub Search"
alias = "gh"
url = "https://github.com/search?q={query}"

02 / Why Runlee

A launcher sees everything you type, so Runlee is built to stay fast, light and private on every system it runs on.