Tinycast for Mac
Lightweight native launcher with app search, clipboard management, window controls, and custom shortcuts.
By abue-ammar. Free and open source.
Tinycast at a glance
- Version
- 0.11.12
- Released
- 2 October 2026
- Download size
- 8.0 MB
- Works on
- Apple silicon and Intel
- Category
- Productivity
- Developer
- abue-ammar
- GitHub stars
- 8.2K
About Tinycast
Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history.
Screenshots

How to install Tinycast on a Mac
- Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
- Search for Tinycast and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.11.12 from abue-ammar's own GitHub release.
- 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 Tinycast 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: Tinycast-0.11.12.dmg (8.0 MB).
What is new in Tinycast 0.11.12
## What's Changed * Stabilize Settings sidebar icons on window open by @Risengan in #941 * Keep the palette open while an extension's file picker is up by @list-jonas in #940 * Read fitted icon alpha directly from bitmap bytes by @kmplngj in #960 * Keep pinned entries when clearing clipboard history by @abue-ammar in #966 * Run an extension's menu bar command, and draw its item natively by @list-jonas in #963 * Render transparent extension SVG fills correctly by @list-jonas in #970 * Run got-backed extensions by constructing tls.TLSSocket by @list-jonas in #967 * Open the palette without re-rendering it first by @abue-ammar in #964 * Close command output with Escape by @list-jonas in #1006 * Progressive blur for the Settings window by @mmshivesh in #1009 * Add Globe hotkey bindings by @Risengan in #1010 * Add Window Mode previews to Settings by @Risengan in #1014 * Build clipboard file URLs without touching the disk (Closes #998) by @tomelliot in #1022 * Fix deeplink fallbackText prefilling extension search by @qeude in #1035 * Keep node shim exports alive through esbuild's __toESM by @FezVrasta in #1038 * Render borderless panels with Liquid Glass by @abue-ammar in #1046 * Let Settings detail use native window background by @Risengan in #1049 * Let the calendar menu bar item hide when there is nothing to show by @abue-ammar in #1048 …
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