Command palette resources

Blog posts

• Command Palette Interfaces, by Philip Davis

• The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again, by Matthew Guay

• Why we started Magny: a future outlook, by Magny

• How to build a remarkable command palette, by Tim Boucher (Superhuman)

• Writing command palette interfaces by Philip Davis

• Good design patterns: the command palette, by William Vigolo da Silva

• Designing a command palette, by Pluto

• Rise of the “keyboard-first” generation, podcast by Des Traynor and Paul Adams

• Every App Should Have a Power Bar, by Owen Williams

• The command line comeback, by Gaby Goldberg

• Keyboard first, by swyx

• No Code, All Keys: Designing SwiftUI Faster with Your Keyboard, by Sahand Nayebaziz

• Command K Bars, by Maggie Appleton

• Spoil your power users: add command palettes, by Miguel Campos

• Command bars, by Chris Coyier

• Command palette: Past, present and future, by Cristina Buena

Desktop command palette apps & launcher bars

• Raycast, an extendable launcher letting you complete tasks, calculate, share common links and more.

• Alfred, a productivity app for MacOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more.

• Power Toys, a quick Windows launcher for power users that contains some additional features.

• Ueli, an open source keystroke launcher for Windows and macOS

• Sol, another open source MacOS launcher & command palette

• Paletteau, a global command palette for Windows

• Paletro, a command palette for MacOS

• Sol, an app launcher for MacOS

• LaunchBar, app launcher and document browser

• Lacona, an app to find files and launch apps for MacOS

• Keypirinha, a launcher for Windows

• Albert, a launcher for Linux similar to Alfred

• Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

• Shortcat, universal command palette for Mac which indexes your Mac's user interface

Libraries

General

• Ninja keys: Keyboard shortcuts interface for your website. Works with static HTML, Vanilla JS, Vue, React, Svelte.

• Command pal: The hackable command palette for the web, inspired by Visual Studio Code.

React

• Cmdk: A fast, unstyled command palette React component.

• Kbar: A fast, portable, and extensible cmd+k interface for your site.

• Kmenu: An animated and accessible command menu.

• React command palette: An accessible browser compatible javascript command palette

• Scoutbar: User-friendly, easy-to-use, scalable, and highly customizable component.

• React-cmd: A fast, accessible, and pretty command palette for React.

• React super command: A sleek command palette modal for React apps.

• Superkey: A stylized command palette for React

Vue

• Vue command palette: A fast and unstyled command palette for Vue.

Svelte

• Svelte command palette: Dead simple command palette for Svelte

SolidJS

• Solid command palette: UI Library for Command Palette in SolidJS webapps

GTK+

• Plotinus: A searchable command palette in every modern GTK+ application

Flutter

• Flutter command palette: A Flutter widget that allows you to bring up a command palette

Browser extensions

• Commander: A command palette for Chrome

• Vivium: A Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor

• Simplehuman: Command center and keyboard shortcuts for Gmail

Plugins / extensions

• TW-commandpalette: A command palette for TiddlyWiki (demo)

• Craft CMS command palette: Command palette for Craft CMS

• Sharepoint command palette

• Godot command palette: A quick file finder and command palette for the Godot game engine

• WP command palette: Bring the power of text editor command palette to WordPress Admin.

• Adobe Illustrator command palette

• Electron command palette

• Framer motion command palette, inspired by Linear, Raycast & paco.sh

• Ghidra command palette

• Notion palette: Supercharge your workspace with the command palette within Notion

Applications with command palette

Web/SaaS apps with command palette

Other implementations

• Poepalette: A command palette for links (bookmarks)