Start Menu for Mac 0.9.1 released!

A beta release of Start Menu for Mac, the new customizable app launcher for macOS from First Letter Software, is now available for testers and early adopters craving the latest and greatest, and are willing to tolerate a few inevitable bugs.

Start Menu for Mac is a new app that organizes your favorite apps in a popup menu, making them readily available all in one place. Learn more about Start Menu for Mac.

What’s New

• Start Menu for Mac now assigns more apps to default app categories when launching for the first time or when the apps are installed. Apple Creator Studio apps (including Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro), as well as many web browsers (Firefox, Edge, Google Chrome, etc.), office productivity titles (LibreOffice and Microsoft 365, formerly Microsoft Office), cloud file clients (e.g. Dropbox) and software development tools (e.g. Visual Studio Code and some JetBrains IDEs) will be assigned to app categories, and you can change them if you like from the Organizer.
• Bug fix: Newly-installed apps aren't added to their default app categories
• Bug fix: Apps located in a subfolder of the Applications folder aren't detected. This affected apps such as Adobe Acrobat. Apps in the "Utilities" subfolder (e.g. Activity Monitor, Terminal, etc.) weren't impacted.

How to Get It

Head over to the Download page and click the download button for your Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel Mac). Save the DMG file, then double-click it and follow the instructions to install.

If you've installed version 0.9, update to this release by opening the Start Menu, then click the control menu and then select Check For Updates.

Testers who still have any of the 0.8.x versions installed must download the update from the First Letter Software website. The update cannot be downloaded and installed from the app updater.

Things You Should Know About

• This beta release is available free of charge, but expires 90 days after installation, after which it will stop working.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Start Menu for Mac should be posted to the discussion forum on GitHub.

If you find a bug, you may file a bug report on GitHub. Please search the issues list first to confirm that your issue has not already been reported.