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Find it. Pick what to do. Pick where.
Type a few letters to find a file. Press Tab to see what you can do with it, and Tab again to choose where it goes. Return runs it.
Find it. Then do something with it.
A keyboard launcher for your Mac. Apps, files, clipboard and emoji, one shortcut away.
It is live. Type ?, flights or party.
See it work.
Demo video coming soon
Until then, the launcher above is live. Click it and type.
It starts like Spotlight. Then it keeps going.
Six things it does. Each one below is live, so click in and type.
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Search by what is inside.
Forgot what you called it? Type what it was about. flights finds the voice memo where you talked about flights, and the PDF that lists them.
Search by meaning runs on your Mac. It is an optional download: 310 MB for text, or 865 MB to find pictures and voice memos too.
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Everything you copied.
Codiclens keeps what you copy. Find something from earlier and paste it again, or turn a link into a QR code.
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Emoji by name.
Type party or coffee and paste the emoji right where you were typing. ⌃⌘Space goes straight to emoji.
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Work on files without Finder.
Read the text in a screenshot, turn a photo the right way up, or move, share and compress a file. Your hands stay on the keys.
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Turn a recording into text.
Have Codictate? Codiclens hands it a voice memo or a video and shows the text as it comes in, with the speech model you already picked there.
Three steps, then ⌘Space.
- Mac
- Apple Silicon
- System
- macOS 26.4 or later
- Download
- 5.9 MB · v1.0.1
- Search by meaning
- Optional. 310 MB for text, or 865 MB with images and audio. You choose in Setup.
Step 1 of 3
Drag to Applications
Open the file you downloaded and drag Codiclens onto the Applications folder. If you open it from anywhere else, it offers to move itself there, so updates can install.
Uninstall or start over.
Remove the app, its local data and its settings in four steps.
To start over without uninstalling, skip step 2 and open Codiclens again. Setup comes back as if it were new.
Quit Codiclens
Press ⌘Space, type Settings, press Return, turn off Open at login, then click Quit Codiclens. The shortcuts Codiclens took go back to macOS.
Move it to the Trash
Drag Codiclens from Applications to the Trash.
Delete its data
This folder holds the File Index, search by meaning data, Clipboard History and Emoji Recents. In Finder, press ⇧⌘G, paste the path and delete the folder.
~/Library/Application Support/codiclensmacOS may also leave these cache and network-storage folders. Delete them if they exist. Your original files stay where they are.
~/Library/Caches/com.codiclens~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.codiclensReset its settings
Run this in Terminal. It clears your choices from Setup and Settings, including folder choices, shortcut choices and update preferences. It does not turn off Open at login; do that before quitting in step 1.
defaults delete com.codiclens
A launcher that stays out of your way.
On your Mac
Search, File Actions and search by meaning run on your Mac. Your files never leave it, and the app collects nothing. What it does connect to.
Keyboard first
⌘Space opens it. Type to find something, Tab to pick an Action, Return to run it. Your hands stay on the keys.
Open source
Free under Apache-2.0. Read the code, report a bug or build it yourself.
Try it on your Mac.
Free and open source. If something breaks or is missing, tell me on GitHub.