Sleek, fast and native launcher for macOS.
No subscription. No cloud required. Native Swift from the ground up, private by default.
Version 0.106 · macOS 15 or later
Meet Tuna, the introduction. 18 minutes, or watch it on YouTube.
Built like a sentence
Tuna gives you one shape, carried forward from Quicksilver: find a thing, choose what to do with it, and optionally say where it goes. Press Tab on any result to see what it can do.
Apps, files, text, notes, tasks, clipboard items, windows: they all work the same way. Learn the shape once and every new source or extension already makes sense. How commands work
Four ways in. One system.
Tuna is modal. The modes are not four apps; they are four doors into the same command system.
Fuzzy Mode
Type a few letters and Tuna finds it. Pick something once, and it remembers what you meant.
Text Mode
Calculate, convert units and currencies, transform text, then send the result anywhere.
Talk Mode
Dictation with local speech models. Your voice never has to leave your Mac.
Combo Mode
Key sequences straight to commands you already know. Like combos in a fighting game.
Not like the other launchers
No account. No cloud. No subscription. Native Swift from the ground up, and private by default: Tuna never sees your queries, your clipboard, or your transcripts.
It learns you
Type sfi, choose Safari, and from then on sfi means Safari. Add aliases for the rest.
Browse into anything
Press → to step into folders, Notes, Reminders, or your open pull requests.
Everything is a subject
Selected text, the Finder selection, the current document, a clipboard item. All of it can start a command.
Extensions are vocabulary
Notes, Reminders, Safari, Obsidian, Things, GitHub and more add subjects and actions to the same sentence.
Working memory
Clipboard history and the Shelf keep what you copied and what you are working on, encrypted at rest.
AI Prompts are files
A prompt is a Markdown file. Run it on any text with Apple's on-device models or your own endpoint.
Settings are a file
Everything lives in config.toml. There is a CLI and a URL scheme when you want to script it.
Themes
Change how Tuna looks without changing how it works. Hover to peek at Default, Logic Board, Normie Bar, Notch, and Nuggets.
Coming from somewhere else? Raycast · Leader Key · Spotlight
See it in action
Walkthroughs of each mode, straight from the person who builds it.
What people say
“I think Tuna might be the first one to get it right. It doesn't crowd you with hundreds of things you won't use.”
“Once it's working, it's the kind of thing you stop noticing because it just feels like the computer is doing what you want.”
“After giving Tuna a try, I realize what's been missing since Quicksilver: some whimsy; a Mac-assed launcher. […] Tuna is fun to use. It looks right at home on the Mac.”
Tuna was an instant install for me. This thing works _so well_
almonk
@almonk
Raycast never landed for me. When I found tunaformac.com earlier this year I liked it a lot more.
Sam Rose
@samwhoo
So far I've retired Superwhisper and Raycast for Tuna.
Tim Lange
@timkl
Quicksilver reborn 😍
Marc Köhlbrugge
@marckohlbrugge
It's never been easier to build. But having taste remains incredibly rare. Tuna looks fantastic, great work!
Anthony Morris
@amorriscode
Raycast finally has competition. I just found the BEST modal launcher for Mac. It is GENUINELY nothing like I have seen before.
Pavan Kumar
@PavanKumarNY
Haven't been this excited about a piece of software for a loong time!
Sebastian Andil
@selrond
Really cool what you do with Tuna 🐟
Thomas Paul Mann
@thomaspaulmann
Beautiful
Felix Krause
@KrauseFx
QUICKSILVER YESSS
James Long
@jlongster
That looks amazing 🤩
Fabrizio Rinaldi
@linuz90
LOVE it. The animations are so fun.
stucki
Mastodon
Wish I came up with this UI for Vector
Ethan Lipnik
@EthanLipnik
Mikkel is world class and you should check Tuna out.
Geet Khosla
@geetkhosla
wwwwow, this looks incredible. Much more in line with how I think and work.
steve_adams_86
Hacker News
The landing page is so concise. The demo so straight forward and enticing. It all appears so novel.
tolerance
Hacker News
Free to use. $49 once for everything.
Everyday launching is free, with soft limits. Pro removes them: unlimited extensions, custom script folders, clipboard history without an age cap, currency conversion, every theme, and every local dictation model. One license covers three Macs.
Version 0.106 · macOS 15 or later
Built by Mikkel Malmberg
One person, lots of opinions, a long love of Quicksilver.