Apple has retired the Mac’s Launchpad, a feature that displayed all your apps and let you quickly pick the one you want to open. You can recreate the app launcher using these alternatives. Now, to be ...

If you’re using macOS 26 and mourning the loss of Launchpad, you need an alternative like BuhoLaunchpad. The newly released Mac app delivers practically the same experience that Launchpad did, ...

Apple's upcoming macOS Tahoe introduces a new design, better Apple Intelligence features, and a new Preview app, but also a completely new Spotlight. With it, you can take new actions, such as ...

An open-source irony has long been that Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, used its own closed-source software development platform, Launchpad, to create Ubuntu and other open-source programs. On ...

Artificial Intelligence is big business, and companies are looking for the next big app to use it. However, Mac app subscription service Setapp has demonstrated that the pursuit of AI comes at the ...

Apple scrapped Launchpad in macOS Tahoe, but it isn’t letting developers bring it back either. A new app called AppGrid recreates the familiar grid-style launcher, yet Apple is rejecting new versions ...

Launchpad had been a part of the Mac operating system since OS X Lion, which was released in 2011. After 14 years, Launchpad is now retired, replaced by Apps in macOS Tahoe. Apps functions a lot like ...