LaunchBar

March 5, 2025
LaunchBar 6.20.2 (6265)
Improved display of localized app names and Emoji names to support a much larger variety of languages and regional language variants.
The LaunchBar.app item can now browsed to shows a list of all indexing rules.
Improved handling of Escape keypress during sub-search.
Improved deletion of entered abbreviation characters with the Delete key (sometimes didn’t work reliably when using key-repeat).
Added macOS Passwords.app to list of Ignored Applications of Clipboard History when installing LaunchBar for the first time.
Fixed: Some system setting panes were not shown with their full name. For example, "Login Items & Extensions" was only shown as "Login Items", so it wasn’t found when searching for "Extensions".
Fixed: Pressing the global keyboard shortcut for Emoji or Snippets again now resets the current search within these items.
Fixed formatted display of phone numbers.
Fixed: Some email addresses or phone numbers were shown without a label.
Fixed: Opening Safari via LaunchBar didn’t bring all Safari windows to front.
Fixed: Sharing custom actions in Action Editor didn’t work (the “Share” submenu in the context menu didn’t show any share actions).
Fixed a potential crash when closing the Large Type window showing a calculator result.
Fixed a potential crash when indexing macOS Services of installed applications.
Fixed a potential crash when reading an application’s Info.plist file.
Removed obsolete “Secure Empty Trash” action (this action is no longer available in Finder).
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October 15, 2024
LaunchBar 6.20.1 (6263)
This is a hotfix for a bug introduced in LaunchBar 6.20 causing some JavaScript-based custom actions to fail.

October 14, 2024
LaunchBar 6.20 (6262)
Improvements
Using the term “Contact List” instead of “Contact Group” on macOS 13 and later for consistency with the wording used in the Contacts app.
Improved Quick Look of plain text items in Clipboard History to use a larger font size.
The activation hotkey now also resets an existing multiple selection.
Improved Contacts indexing using a newer macOS API.
Bug Fixes
When invoking a Service of an app via LaunchBar (e.g. the “Look Up in Dictionary” service of the Dictionary app), the corresponding app sometimes did not come to front.
Indexing of System Settings didn’t include third party setting panes.
The Contacts index wasn’t updated automatically when changes were made in the Contacts app.
Opening a postal address in Maps sometimes caused the web browser to be opened.
The Quick Look preview window sometimes reopened immediately after being closed.
The result list sometimes still appeared partially empty (at least for a very short moment). This issue has now been completely resolved.
Fixed missing localization of file paths shown in the index window.
Fixed a potential crash when indexing shortcuts from Shortcuts app.
Fixed a potential crash when indexing Sharing Services.
[NEW] Indexing of Share Menu Actions can now be turned on/off separately in the Options pane of the Actions indexing rule.

July 5, 2024
LaunchBar 6.19.1 (6257)
Bug Fix
Sending text to apps via Send-to sometimes still didn’t bring the target app to front on macOS Sonoma (this bug was supposed to be fixed in version 6.19, so this is another attempt to fix it).

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July 4, 2024
LaunchBar 6.19 (6254)
System Settings
Indexing and access to System Settings panes have been completely rewritten. It’s now possible to browse and open all System Settings panes directly from LaunchBar, and they are displayed with their respective icons.
Improvements
Redesigned and modernized lots of icons shown in the result list (contact details, items in the Music Library, and more).
Info browsing of a folder (with Shift-Right) now also shows the number of items contained in that folder.
Improved performance when browsing the result list with the up/down arrow keys.
Bug Fixes
On macOS Sonoma, the result list sometimes appeared partially empty, with the top match item located somewhere near the bottom of the list.
Showing items in Finder via Command-Return sometimes didn’t bring the Finder window to front on macOS Sonoma.
Sending text to apps via Send-to sometimes didn’t bring the target app to front on macOS Sonoma.
In a multiple display setup with an external monitor, LaunchBar sometimes didn’t appear on the preferred screen at app start.
Some icons were drawn with their shadows heading in the wrong direction (upwards instead of downwards).
Info browsing of a folder (with Shift-Right) did not allow to further navigate into the folder’s name to split it into words.
Resizing the LaunchBar window during text input could cause the text to jump slightly vertically to a different location.
Various other minor bug fixes and improvements.
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November 29, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.5 (6248)
We’ve identified and fixed an issue that caused occasional delays during input for some users running versions 6.18.3 and 6.18.4.
November 13, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.4 (6245)
This version attempts to resolve perfomance issues that some users have reported after installing the previous version 6.18.3.

November 13, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.4 (6244)
This version attempts to resolve perfomance issues that some users have reported after installing the previous version 6.18.3.
If you haven’t noticed such perfomance issues, you may skip this version.
If you are still experiencing the same performance issues even with this new version, you might install version 6.18.2 instead, which wasn’t affected by this problem.

November 3, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.3 (6240)
Improved “Display in Large Type” for long text that doesn’t fit into a single line.
Improved category indexing to eliminate duplicates from the result.
Fixed: Accessing an app’s Recent Documents didn’t work on macOS 14.1.
Fixed: Indexing of Calendars and Reminders didn’t work on macOS Sonoma.
Fixed: Finder tags were no longer shown with their colors on macOS Sonoma.
Several other minor bug fixes and improvements.

September 21, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.2 (6238)
Fixed an issue causing the “Eject All Ejectable Volumes” action to inadvertently also eject hidden volumes from Xcode’s iOS Simulator.
Fixed the ^ operation in Calculator (for calculating integral powers of a number like 7^2=49), which stopped working in one of the recent macOS versions.
Fixed a layout issue in the confirmation dialog shown when installing a new custom action.

September 2, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18.1 (6236)
Fixed a bug causing the theme settings to get reset to Default & Automatic at each restart of the app.
August 20, 2023

Aug 20, 2023
LaunchBar 6.18 (6235)
Automatic Theme Switching
Added automatic switching between a theme’s dark and light appearance based on the current system appearance.
The desired theme appearance can be chosen in LaunchBar Settings > Appearance.
In addition to automatic switching it’s still possible to choose a fixed dark or light appearance.
Added dark variants of built-in themes (except for the “Vintage” theme).
Improvements and Bug Fixes
Improved appearance of sidebar in index window.
Improved caching of applications index for better startup performance.
Improved ranking of system applications when searching via abbreviation search.
Fixed a bug causing a file path copied from LaunchBar into a Terminal window to be pasted twice.
Fixed a crash when allowing Calendar/Reminders access after adding or enabling the corresponding indexing rule.
Fixed an issue causing the shadows in a few custom icons to be headed in the wrong direction.