Launchers, clipboard & automation
Launchers, clipboard managers, text expanders and macro engines. Buy the keystrokes, keep the keystrokes.
| Licence type | App | Price | Licence | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 AlfredRunning with Crayons Ltd | £34 | This version | Only the £59 Mega Supporter tier includes free upgrades forever; £34 buys Alfred 5 | |
 DropzoneAptonic | $35 | Perpetual | The free tier is deliberately basic — the actions worth having sit behind the $35 Pro licence | |
 EspansoFederico Terzi and contributors | Free | Open source | snippets are YAML files you edit by hand, and syncing them between Macs is your job | |
 HammerspoonHammerspoon contributors | Free | Open source | there is no GUI at all, so every behaviour you want is something you write in Lua | |
 Karabiner-ElementsTakayama Fumihiko | Free | Open source | anything interesting is a JSON complex modification, and it remaps keyboards only | |
 Keyboard MaestroStairways Software | $36 | Paid upgrades | major versions are a paid upgrade, currently $25, and arrive roughly every couple of years | |
 LaunchBarObjective Development Software GmbH | €35 | This version | Version-locked to LaunchBar 6, current since 2014, and past major upgrades were paid | |
 MaccyAlex Rodionov | Free | Open source | no iOS app and no sync, so the history stays on the one Mac | |
 PastePaste Team | $89.99 | Lifetime tier | At $89.99 the lifetime plan takes about three years of the annual plan to pay off | |
 PopClipPilotmoon Software | $26 | Perpetual | The cheap $12 tier stops getting updates after two years; $26 buys the one that never does | |
 RaycastRaycast Technologies Inc. | Free | Free | No one-time option exists, and the free tier keeps clipboard history for only three months | |
 TypinatorErgonis Software | $49.99 | This version | Basic buys Typinator 10 only; the next major version is a separate paid upgrade |