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A keyboard-first, local-first launcher that opens apps, files, folders, clipboard history, and quick commands without leaving the keyboard.

By kunkka19xx. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

look at a glance

Version
0.7.2
Released
3 October 2026
Download size
7.5 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
GPL-3.0
Category
Productivity
Developer
kunkka19xx
GitHub stars
1.1K

About look

An open-source, cross OS, community-driven launcher. A lightweight alternative to Spotlight and Raycast. Made with ❤️ from Viet Nam 🇻🇳

How to install look on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for look and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.7.2 from kunkka19xx's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to look show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Look-0.7.2-macOS.zip (7.5 MB).

What is new in look 0.7.2

_Known issue on Linux: flicker with WebKitGTK 2.54.0_

> If your system has WebKitGTK 2.54.0, the window flickers for one frame each time it opens. It's a WebKitGTK bug, please turn off `Settings > Appearance > Animations` (or set `animations_enabled=false`).
> Nix users: if the window doesn't show at all after a system update (`EGL_BAD_PARAMETER` in the log), run `nix flake update look`, or make the `look` input follow your nixpkgs. Details and links in #531.

## Two shapes now

Look has had one shape since the start: a wide window, results on the left, a preview on the right. That is the right shape when you are reading a file before you open it. It is the wrong shape when you want to type three letters and press Enter.

So there are two layouts, and you can switch between them without restarting.

`Split` is the window you already know. `Compact` is Spotlight-width, the results list on its own.

Compact is not Split with the right half chopped off. Everything that needed the width is gone: no preview panel, no running-apps strip, no super actions, no hint bar, no command sidebar. What those carried moves into the list instead. `Cmd/Ctrl+K` opens a row's actions over the list rather than beside it, including open or clear picked items and delete from clipboard history, and a process row reports its memory and CPU in the subtitle where the preview used to say it.
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