Launchers, clipboard & automation
Launchers, clipboard managers, text expanders and macro engines. Buy the keystrokes, keep the keystrokes.
Category: Automation
- Design, graphics & illustration15
- Developer & terminal tools15
- Documents, PDF & office13
- Email, calendar & tasks15
- Files, disk & backup14
- Launchers, clipboard & automation12
- Menu bar & system utilities12
- Privacy, security & networking13
- Screenshots, recording & annotation15
- Video, audio & media14
- Window management & desktop control14
- Writing, notes & markdown14
Licence
- PerpetualUpdates included, forever35
- This versionThe next major is a new purchase47
- Paid upgradesMajor versions cost again25
- Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app14
- FreewareNothing to buy9
- Open sourceNothing to buy; source published36
Each mark reads left to right: this major version, the next, the one after. Filled is included, half is a paid upgrade, hollow is bought again.
Price
11 apps priced in £ or € sit outside these bands, because we don’t convert currencies.
 AlfredRunning with Crayons Ltd | £34This version | Only the £59 Mega Supporter tier includes free upgrades forever; £34 buys Alfred 5 |
 DropzoneAptonic | $35Perpetual | The free tier is deliberately basic — the actions worth having sit behind the $35 Pro licence |
 EspansoFederico Terzi and contributors | FreeOpen source | Snippets are YAML files you edit by hand, and syncing them between Macs is your job |
 HammerspoonHammerspoon contributors | FreeOpen source | There is no GUI at all, so every behaviour you want is something you write in Lua |
 Karabiner-ElementsTakayama Fumihiko | FreeOpen source | Anything interesting is a JSON complex modification, and it remaps keyboards only |
 Keyboard MaestroStairways Software | $36Paid upgrades | Major versions are a paid upgrade, currently $25, and arrive roughly every couple of years |
 LaunchBarObjective Development Software GmbH | €35This version | Version-locked to LaunchBar 6, current since 2014, and past major upgrades were paid |
 MaccyAlex Rodionov | FreeOpen source | No iOS app and no sync, so the history stays on the one Mac |
 PastePaste Team | $89.99Lifetime tier | At $89.99 the lifetime plan takes about three years of the annual plan to pay off |
 PopClipPilotmoon Software | $32Perpetual | The cheap $12 tier stops getting updates after two years; $26 buys the one that never does |
 RaycastRaycast Technologies Inc. | FreeFreeware | No one-time option exists, and the free tier keeps clipboard history for only three months |
 TypinatorErgonis Software | $49.99This version | Basic buys Typinator 10 only; the next major version is a separate paid upgrade |