There are many easy ways to launch apps on your Mac.
Using Pieoneer as an app launcher
This is the simplest part of using Pieoneer.
It looks great for up to 10 apps, but starts to look cramped after that.
As an experiment, I added every app that I launch regularly.
With 21 apps in the launcher, Pieoneer started to look like a pizza with way too many toppings.
Thankfully, sanity prevailed, and I removed apps that I don’t need to launch all the time.
Once setup is complete, Pieoneer will do its job quickly and reliably.
To try it, find theSwitchertab in the parameters menu, then set a keyboard shortcut for this action.
Use the mouse cursor to quickly select an app and it’ll immediately come to the foreground.
I find this faster than usingCommand-Tabto switch between running apps on my MacBook.
To use this, you’ll have to give this app Accessibility permissions on your Mac.
Once you’ve approved the app there, restart Pieoneer to use this feature.
Once you’ve added some apps, you gotta manually add shortcuts to each app.
I used the opportunity to add my favorite shortcuts in Ulysses, my default writing app.
The best part is the app’s UI.
I love the attention to detail, too.
My only complaint with this app is that it sometimes automatically opened the prefs window on my Mac.
Other than this minor bug, Pieoneer has done everything it promised, and done it quite well.
