Library lives in your menu bar. Keep your bookmarks, apps, folders, and terminal commands in one place, open any of them from the menu or a shortcut, and bring back anything you copied a moment ago.
Press Control-Space to open Quick Open from anywhere, and start typing. It searches your library, your clipboard, and your snippets:
Click the Library icon in the menu bar to open your items and recent copies, or to edit your library:
Paste this into Terminal. It installs the Xcode Command Line Tools if they are missing, builds Library, and installs Library.app in your Applications folder. It downloads the source to a temporary folder and needs no git or Xcode beforehand:
cd "$(mktemp -d)" && curl -fsSL https://github.com/deansasek/library/archive/refs/heads/main.zip -o library.zip && unzip -q library.zip && ./library-main/install.shLibrary checks for updates itself. Check for Updates… offers to install a newer version in Terminal. Your library and pinned clipboard items are kept. An install made from a clone can be updated with update.sh in that folder.
Requirements: macOS 26 or later, and the Xcode Command Line Tools.
- Press Control-Space to open Quick Open. Type a name and press Return.
- Choose Edit Library… from the menu bar icon to add bookmarks and apps.
- Turn on Open at login in Settings > General to have Library start with your Mac.
Bookmarks, apps, folders, and terminal commands open from the menu bar, a keyboard shortcut, or Spotlight. Hold Option while you click to open an item the other way.
- Bookmarks open in a new tab or a new window.
- Apps come to the front. Add launch arguments, such as
--profile work, to start a new instance. - Terminal commands run in a login shell in a new Terminal window. Add only commands you trust.
- Folders open all of their bookmarks and apps at once. Library asks first when there are more than five. Turn off Show Open All when you create or edit a folder to hide that item from its menus.
Press Control-Space to search everything in your library.
- Type words from a name, keyword, URL, or folder. Press ↑ or ↓, then Return.
- Type or paste a web address to open it, or add it to your library.
- Press Tab, or right-click a result, to open it the other way, copy its link, path, or command, or, for an app, show it in Finder.
- Press ⌘1 through ⌘9 to open the first nine results.
Library remembers what you copy, including text, links, images, and files, in the formats you copied them in, keeping one copy of each image.
- Open the Library menu or Quick Open to see your latest copies. Choose one to copy it again.
- Pin an item to keep it after you quit.
- Press Control-Command-V to open the clipboard menu at the pointer. Press 1 through 9 to copy an item, or hold Option to copy it as plain text.
- When a text field has the keyboard, choosing an item pastes it. Otherwise it copies. Turn this off with Paste into text fields in Settings > Clipboard. Pasting needs Accessibility access.
- Select an item in Quick Open and press Space to preview it in Quick Look.
- Copy a link and Library removes tracking codes, such as
utm_sourceandfbclid. Turn this off in Settings > General. - Copy as lower or upper case, trimmed, or with its lines joined. Copy a bookmark as a Markdown link.
- Type
from Safariin Quick Open to see only what you copied in Safari. - Build a paste queue, then paste the items one at a time, in order.
- To keep unpinned history after you quit, turn on Keep clipboard history across restarts in Settings. It is off by default, and turning it off deletes the saved history.
Library skips anything a password manager marks as private, and copies over 25 MB.
Keep text you type often, such as an address or a standard reply, as a snippet. Add one from File > New Snippet… or the Snippets button in the Library window. Type a snippet's name or keywords in Quick Open, then press Return to copy it.
Choose Edit Library… to manage everything in one window.
- Add items from the + menu, or drag an app or a link into the window.
- Drag rows to reorder them or move them into a folder. Select several rows to move, reorder, or edit them together.
- Right-click a row to open it, edit or rename it, move, share, or delete it. An app can also be shown in Finder.
- Deleted items go to Recently Deleted, where you can restore them or delete them for good. They are removed for good after 30 days.
- Find and merge duplicate bookmarks from File > Find Duplicates….
- Import bookmarks from Safari or Chrome with File > Import Bookmarks…. They go into one folder, and ⌘Z undoes the import.
- Add a note to any item in Get Info, or add a bookmark to the Reading List.
- Use ⌘Z to undo and ⇧⌘Z to redo.
Select an item and press ⌘I, or choose Edit… from the toolbar or a right-click menu.
- Name and icon. Pick an SF Symbol or an emoji, or keep the site's favicon or the app's icon.
- URL or command, how a click opens it, and which browser to use.
- Keywords help Quick Open and Spotlight find it. Color adds a dot in the menu and the Library window.
- Shortcuts can be added to any item. Open When You Log In opens it when you log in.
Put {} in a URL where a value goes, and Library asks for it when you open the bookmark. For several values, name them: {project} or {id:Issue number}.
Write a note on any item in Get Info. Quick Open shows the note under the item's name, and Spotlight includes it in the description. Notes are plain text and stay in your library.
Add a bookmark to the Reading List from its right-click menu, or from Tab in Quick Open. The list appears in the Library window and in the menu, with unread bookmarks first. Mark a bookmark as read or unread, or remove it from the list. Removing it from the list keeps the bookmark in your library.
Each shortcut can be a key combination, a modified click, a scroll, a pinch, a swipe, or a hot corner. Keys need Control, Option, or Command. An item can have several shortcuts.
The defaults are Control and right-click for the menu, Control-Space for Quick Open, and Control-Command-V for the clipboard menu. Change them in Settings > Shortcuts.
- Spotlight finds your bookmarks, apps, and commands.
- Services: select a link in any app, then choose Services > Add to Library. In Finder, select apps or folders and choose the same item.
- Share: right-click a bookmark or app and choose Share…. Drag a row into any app to drop its link or file.
- URL scheme:
library://open?name=Jira&value=ABC-123opens a bookmark and fills its template.library://menushows the menu, andlibrary://searchopens Quick Open. - Shortcuts app: actions for opening and searching items, adding bookmarks and apps, and the clipboard. They appear only in a build that includes App Intents metadata, which Xcode generates, so a build from
./build.shdoes not show them yet.
Library looks at what you copy and offers the actions that fit it. Detection runs on your Mac.
- Smart actions. Text with an address, a phone number, or a date gets Open in Maps, Copy Phone Number, or Add to Calendar in Quick Open, under Tab.
- Smart Punctuation. In Copy as, turn straight quotes and dashes into curly quotes, apostrophes, em dashes, and ellipses.
- Smart titles. Turn on Name new bookmarks from their pages in Settings > General (off by default), and a new bookmark takes the title of its page. Library reads only the start of the page, and it requests each new bookmark's page once.
- Smart sorting. In the Edit Library window, sort by Most Used or Recently Opened from the sort menu in the header.
Press ⌘, to open Settings.
- General: startup, iCloud Drive sync, automatic update checks, link checks, names for new bookmarks, backup and restore, and link cleaning.
- Shortcuts: the global keys for the menu, Quick Open, the clipboard, and Open Copied Link.
- Clipboard: history, keeping history across restarts, pasting, GIFs, and the Touch ID or password lock for pinned items.
Your library and clipboard history stay on your Mac. Library connects to the internet only to load site icons, to check for updates, and, if you choose, to check your links, read the titles of new bookmarks' pages, download a GIF you copy from a web page, or sync your library through iCloud Drive. Choosing Update in Terminal downloads the new release from GitHub. Pinned clipboard items are encrypted with a key kept in your Keychain. The privacy guide lists exactly what is stored and sent.
- Guide: every feature, setting, and permission
- Privacy: what is stored, where, and what is sent
- Development and releasing: building, testing, and publishing
Library is free and built in the open. If it saves you time, you can support its development.
Library is free software released under the MIT License. You can use, copy, modify, and share it, including in commercial projects, as long as the copyright notice is kept.