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

• Bug fix: "Start at login" option doesn't work if Start Menu for Mac is installed in a custom location
• More improvements to the user interface

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 any of the 0.9.x beta releases, update to this release by opening the Start Menu, then click the control menu and then select Check For Updates.

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.

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.

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

• New option to limit expanded app categories in the My Apps menu to one at a time. Turn on this option in Start Menu Settings
• A progress dialog will now appear when launching Start Menu for Mac for the first time or when launched with the --refresh command-line argument
• Bug fix: In the Organizer, deleting an app category doesn't work if delete confirmation is turned off
• Bug fix: Don't allow multiple instances of the Organizer to be open
• User interface improvements

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.

Current beta testers who have installed any previous version of Start Menu for Mac 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.

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

What’s New

• Bug fix: Some apps don't show their actual name
• Bug fix: Wrong icon used for Dictionary. If you're updating from a previous beta release, see "Things You Should Know About" below for instructions on how to fix the Start Menu icon for the Dictionary app.
• Other fixes and improvements

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 0.8.3, update to this release by opening the Start Menu, then click the control menu and then select Check For Updates. If your previous beta release was version 0.8.2, update to 0.8.3 first.

Testers who have installed version 0.8.1, and didn't update to 0.8.2, will need to uninstall it first before installing this release.

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.
• If you've installed a previous beta release and selected the option to "Start at login", turn off this setting before updating to this release. It can be turned back on after completing the update.
• This release fixes an issue with the Dictionary icon, but the Start Menu needs to be refreshed for the fix to take effect. To do this, quit Start Menu for Mac if it's running, then open a Terminal window and run the following command: /Applications/Start\ Menu.app/Contents/MacOS/startmenu --refresh.

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.

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

What’s New

• Improvements to the Start Menu for Mac app updater, which will be visible in the next beta release

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 0.8.2, update to this release by opening the Start Menu, then click the control menu and then select Check For Updates.

Testers who have installed version 0.8.1, and didn't update to 0.8.2, will need to uninstall it first before installing this release.

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.

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

What’s New

Version 0.8.2 is the second beta release and is being made available to a wider pool of testers. What's new in this release:

• Bug fix: Crash on startup if an app that appeared in the Recent Apps menu was uninstalled
• Bug fix: Sluggish UI responsiveness when launching an app that doesn't open a window by default, e.g. Docker
• Bug fix: In System Settings, the Login Items name for Start Menu for Mac shows the developer name, not app name
• Other fixes and improvements

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.

Testers who have installed the previous beta, version 0.8.1, will need to uninstall it first before installing this release.

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.
• If you installed an older beta release, uninstall it first before installing the latest release. Automatic updating of Start Menu for Mac will be available starting in version 0.8.2.

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.

Testers Wanted!

Version 0.8.1 is the first public beta release of Start Menu for Mac, aimed at testers, power users and enthusiasts who crave the latest and greatest! Go to the Downloads page to get it now.

Start Menu for Mac is compatible with macOS 13 Ventura and newer, on Apple Silicon and Intel Mac devices.

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.
• Automatic updating is not yet available. Check back at this website for the latest release.

Help and Support

Questions and comments about Start Menu for Mac should be posted to the discussion forums over at GitHub which is set up to support beta testing.

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.