Observed arrival · 2026-10-26
Ciel, the macOS launcher with two jobs
Ciel searches for Mac apps and arranges windows from a keyboard launcher.
○Open
⊠Login
$Paid
†Ads
✦Pretty
●Pro
◎Niche
◉Human
⚑Risk
ƒJS
- For
- Mac users who want app search and window placement
- Worth noticing
- The page reports a 5.56 ms p95 search time across 1,018 apps and documents unsupported full-screen and Spaces workflows.
Field notes
Search handles abbreviations such as “vsc,” misspellings such as “safrai,” accents, and words entered in any order. Exact matches come before usage history, which the page says remains local. Window commands cover regular windows, but full-screen windows and moving windows between Spaces are explicitly unsupported; macOS Accessibility permission is needed for window control.
Observed signals
Read the marks
Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
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