Lamp
Global shortcut
Open or close Lamp from any app with ⌥ Space, or record your own shortcut in Settings.
Find anything on your Mac
without touching the mouse.
Lamp is a free keyboard launcher for macOS. Press ⌥ Space, type a few letters, and press ↵.
Everything is a few keystrokes away
Fuzzy app search
Prefixes, later words and initials all work: sett finds System Settings and vsc finds Visual Studio Code.
Files and folders
Matching files appear below your apps as you type. Start with ~ or / to browse a folder. Right-click for Show in Finder or Copy Path.
Quick links
Give a URL a keyword: gh react searches GitHub and g lamp searches Google. Add your own in Settings.
System commands
Lock Screen, Sleep and Toggle Dark Mode, from the same search field. Only these allow-listed commands can run.
Learns what you use
Press ↓ on an empty search to see your most-used items, ranked by how often and how recently you open them.
Keys
| ↵ | Open the selected item |
| ↑ ↓ | Move the selection (or ⌃P ⌃N) |
| ⌘ ↵ | Show a file or folder in Finder |
| ⇥ | Fill in a quick link, or browse inside a folder |
| esc | Clear the search, or close Lamp |
| ⌘ , | Open Settings |
Install
- Download the zip and double-click it to unzip.
- Drag Lamp.app into your Applications folder.
- Open Lamp. It lives in the menu bar (there's no Dock icon). Press ⌥ Space to start.
macOS says "Apple could not verify Lamp"?
Lamp isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS blocks it the first time you open it. To allow it, close the warning, then open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway next to Lamp.
You only need to do this once per version.
The first time you use Toggle Dark Mode, macOS asks whether Lamp may control System Events. Allow it for that command to work.
Uninstall: quit Lamp from its menu bar icon and move Lamp.app to the Trash.