thaw-app / Floe

Floe 
 The open source launcher for macOS. 
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> [!NOTE]
> Floe is part of the Thaw project. Where this repository says nothing, Thaw's rules apply here too.
## Features
- **One hotkey, one search.** Applications, commands, quicklinks and System Settings panes, ranked by how often and how recently you use them. Aliases, hotkeys and favorites for the ones you use most.
- **Raycast extensions, unmodified.** Including the ones Raycast has already installed, on a Bun runtime inside the app, with an Extension Store page to install and update them.
- **The basics, built in.** Snippets, emoji, file search, calendar, a calculator with unit conversion, system commands, the menu bar's items and the front app's menus from the keyboard, and, once you switch it on, the shortcuts you made in Apple's Shortcuts app, run by name.
- **Your own apps, not replacements for them.** Pick the terminal, editor, browser, notes app and clipboard manager you already use, and Floe hands work to them, down to a host from your SSH configuration, which opens in your terminal.
- **Ask AI.** `ask` and a question shows the answer in the launcher, and you can follow it up there. You choose who answers: a command line tool you are already signed in to (`claude`, `codex`, `opencode` or `pi`), Apple Intelligence on your Mac, or an OpenAI-compatible API. A switch keeps all AI on your Mac.
- **Works with Thaw.** Thaw 3's actions are in the search, and the launcher can follow Thaw's menu bar appearance.
- **Private.** No analytics, no telemetry, no account. The Privacy page in Settings lists every permission and everything Floe contacts.
 Full feature list : everything the search answers to, by area 
The changelog describes each in more detail.
### Search
- Open the search with one global hotkey (⌃⌥Space by default, changeable).
- Find applications, extension commands, script commands, quicklinks, System Settings panes and browser-installed web apps.
- Results are ranked by how often and how recently you use them, with fuzzy matching on scattered letters.
- Give an application or command an alias or a hotkey, and mark favorites that stay at the top.
- Set hotkeys for Emoji, Clipboard History, File Search and the system commands.
- Narrow a search to one place with a scope: `files`, `menu`, `menus`, `tabs`, `windows`, `bookmarks`, `recent`.
- Type a web address or a path in full to open it (`~/Downloads` gets the file actions).
- Type `keywords` or `?` to list every word the search answers to, with an example of each.
- Press the Up arrow to bring back the last 50 searches that opened something.
- Turn on files and open browser tabs (Safari, Dia, Helium) as extra search sources.
- Hide an application or command from the search, and bring it back in Settings.
### Results and actions
- Open an Actions menu (⌘K) on applications and files: hide, quit, restart, force quit, show in Finder, open with, copy, move to Trash.
- Open the