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Open any app or System Settings pane from the command palette by typing a few letters.
- Signed by navbytes
- Runs in its own sandbox
- v1.2.2
About
Your apps and System Settings panes in the command palette, as Spotlight and Raycast have them. Type a few letters (“saf”, “vsc”, “wi-fi”) and the app comes first in the results; Return opens it, ⌘K copies its path or bundle id. The ones you open most rank higher. Search Applications lists them all.
Gallery
Every place it shows up.
From anywhere
Run it without opening it.
applications⌥ Space
- Search ApplicationsApplications
- which also feeds the palette's resultsApplications
Every command is in Stackbar's palette, and can have its own hotkey, a stackbar:// link, or a Shortcuts action.
Inside
Everything it does.
Looks in
/Applications (one folder deep), ~/Applications and the system's own apps, plus every pane System Settings lists.
Install
Two clicks in Stackbar.
- Open it in Stackbar, or open Stackbar → Settings → Store and find Applications.
- Choose Install.
- It appears in your panel.
Don't have Stackbar yet? Download it free.
Or from a terminal
stackbarctl install --index https://navbytes.github.io/stackbar-plugins/index.json io.navbytes.stackbar.plugins.applications- Version
- 1.2.2
- Updated
- November 8, 2026
- Category
- System
- Shows in
- Panel
- Requires
- Stackbar 0.31.0 or later
- Publisher
- navbytes
- Bundle
- sha256 e9b47e251c9c…
Version history
What's new
1.2.2Latest
- System Settings panes open again: picking Wi-Fi, Displays or any other pane brings it up.
- Typing in the palette always answers straight away. The app list refreshes in the background every few minutes instead of making a keystroke wait.
- Your most opened apps in the panel no longer show up a second time in the palette's results.
1.2.1
- A failed app listing is retried after a few seconds instead of on every keystroke.
1.2.0
- Matches the way the rest of the palette does, with Stackbar's own matcher, so apps and commands rank on one scale. Stackbar now also learns which app you pick for what you type.
1.1.0
- The panel points to App Switcher, for switching apps with Right ⌘ and a letter. It stays a separate plugin, because it listens to the keyboard.
1.0.1
- Typing "settings" finds the System Settings app first. Every pane used to outrank it, because each one has "settings" as a keyword.
1.0.0
- First release: the palette's app search, now a plugin.