Common Command

A small, fast launcher.

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Free forever · Open source · Nothing leaves your Mac · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Everything in one panel.

Apps, System Settings panes, files and folders from the Spotlight index, your shortcuts, and the web. “dark mode” finds the right pane.

Learns what you mean.

Fuzzy matching on word starts, with case and accents folded. The result you choose for a query comes first next time.

Sums and units.

Sums like “(4 + 5) * 12” and conversions like “10 km to mi”, answered offline as you type. Return copies the result.

Get started.

  1. Download CommonCommand.zip, unzip it, and move Common Command to Applications.
  2. Open it The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer: the build is signed but not notarized. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to Common Command.
  3. Set it up Press ⌥Space, type a few letters of an app’s name, and press Return. Change the shortcut in Settings.

Or, from a terminal, with no Open Anyway step: curl -fsSL https://oddurs.github.io/common-tools/install.sh | sh -s -- command. Every step, with checksums, is in the install guide.

More Common Tools.

Common Shot Press ⇧⌘2, drag over what you want, and paste it: into a chat, a terminal, a pull request, or a document. Common Stats CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk, storage, and battery in the menu bar, with a real menu of graphs under it. Common Bar Moves the menu bar icons you rarely use into folders, clear of the notch, and opens any one of them right where its folder is. Common Keys Fixes words typed on the wrong keyboard layout, for every keyboard macOS has, and keeps each app on the language you write there. Common Color Press ⌃⇧⌘C, click any pixel, and the color is on the clipboard as hex, CSS, SwiftUI, or AppKit, converted correctly from the display’s color space. Common Battery The level, the time left, what the battery is doing, and alerts when it runs low or reaches your charge level. Common Glyph A character, a sticker, an emoji, an animated GIF, or a word: as many as you like, each its own menu bar item.