abue-ammar/tinycast
Tinycast — a tiny, fully native macOS launcher, hotkeys, and clipboard history.
Seismograph spotted this repository 7 hours before GitHub Trending.
About the project
A fully native macOS launcher with a global hotkey, clipboard history, file search, calculator, notes, and support for running Raycast extensions. Built in SwiftUI and AppKit with zero third-party dependencies, using under 100 MB of RAM.
Useful for
- Launch apps and open files via fuzzy search with a single global hotkey.
- Find previously copied text or images in clipboard history and paste them back.
- Reuse existing Raycast extensions by running them natively inside Tinycast.
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 164 stars so far today, about 236 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 71 per day, so that's 3.3× as much.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending this month: #20, +4,365 stars.
- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #72.
- About 14 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @grikomsn (527 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 6,405
- Stars in a day
- 236
- Forks
- 296
- Issues and pull requests
- 893
- Watchers
- 10
- Language
- Swift
- Latest release
- v0.11.2-beta.97 · September 16, 2026
- Created
- June 29, 2026
- Last push
- September 18, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 18, 2026GitHub Trending today: #10, +739 stars; GitHub Trending this month: #20, +4,365 stars; Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #72
- September 17, 2026GitHub Trending today: #4, +738 stars; GitHub Trending this month: #20, +3,906 stars; Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #76
- September 16, 2026GitHub Trending today: #4, +1,136 stars; Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #86
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