Radial - Automate anything with a gesture

Hey, after two months of work I just released Radial 3.0 and wanted to share the progress here. For those unfamiliar: Radial is a shortcut launcher for macOS. A circular menu appears at your cursor and gives you instant access to whatever you need — launch apps, open folders, insert text snippets, pick an emoji, run a script, or trigger a multi-step macro to automate repetitive tasks. The menu adapts to whatever app you're in, so only the relevant shortcuts appear. 🔹 Simple shortcuts Not everything needs to be a complex automation. A lot of people use Radial just for the basics and find that alone saves them a surprising amount of time. Launch your most-used apps without touching the dock, open pinned folders and files in one click, insert a text snippet without typing it out again, pick an emoji without opening the character viewer. These are the kinds of small frictions that add up over a day, and Radial handles all of them from one menu, always one gesture away. 🔹 Powerful macros Where Radial really shines is multi-step macros. You can chain together actions — open an app, move a window, run apple script, type something, trigger a keyboard shortcut and the whole sequence fires with one click. In Finder that might mean batch renaming a selection of files, copying multiple file paths at once, or opening a Terminal at the current directory. As a developer it might be triggering a build, inserting a code snippet, running a git command, or opening your project across the exact set of tools you use every time. For designers it could be applying color processing in Photoshop or running a resize and rename sequence on a batch of images. Anything you repeat more than a handful of times a day is worth turning into a macro. Radial is also context aware, so it automatically switches what's shown depending on which app you're in, keeping your menu clean. 🔹 Community presets If you don't want to build from scratch, the presets library has ready-made Radial menus created by the community for specific apps. The Essential Finder Tools preset covers batch renaming, file organization, Terminal integration and more. The Developer Essentials preset covers git actions, build routines, code snippets, and project shortcuts for VS Code. Install with one click and you have a fully configured menu ready to go. Once you're happy with your own workflow, you can share it with the community too. radial.appverge.net/presets 🔹 What's new in 3.0 Unified menu — Previously Radial had 5 separate menu types and each could only hold that type of shortcut, so you ended up managing multiple menus and switching between them manually. That got messy fast. In 3.0 they're all merged into one. Window management — A new action for snapping, minimizing, and maximizing windows has been added. Combine it with other steps for automations like "open this app and snap it to the left half of the screen" all in one go. Dynamic variables in Type Text — One of my favorite additions. Text snippets can now pull in the current date and time, the name of the focused app, or prompt you for custom input the moment the shortcut fires. So instead of a static template, you get something that fills itself in. Especially useful for email templates, structured notes, dated entries, and anything where part of the content changes each time. Templates — Predefined shortcut setups so you can get up and running without building everything from scratch. Pick a template, customize it to your needs, and you're done. Custom shortcut icons — Icons can now be set to app icons, file icons, folder icons, or emojis instead of just SF Symbols. Auto update — The app can finally update itself in the background. No more downloading and manually installing new versions. Full redesign — The whole app has been redesigned from scratch to look better and be more intuitive. 🔹 Pricing One-time purchase at €14.99, works on up to 5 Macs, no subscription. A 7-day free trial is also available so you can try everything before committing. Students and existing AppVerge customers get 30% off at appverge.net/store. We've also put together a documentation page to help new users get started at radial.appverge.net/docs, and a feedback board for bugs, ideas, and feature votes at radial.userjot.com. If you give it a try, leaving a review on Product Hunt would mean a lot: producthunt.com/products/radial 🔗 Download Now: radial.appverge.net Radial is still in active development. Feedback is always welcome!

Hey Gustav, congrats on 3.0! That line about the old 5 separate menus getting messy fast sounds like it came from real frustration. Was there a day where you were managing all those menus and thought wait, this tool is supposed to save me time, why is it adding friction?