LaunchBar

October 14, 2025
LaunchBar 6.22.2 (6291)
Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar to freeze on some Intel Macs.
Fixed: Accessing MindNode Next documents (a new feature introduced in version 6.22) didn’t work under some circumstances.

LaunchBar 6.22.1 (6289)
Hot Fix: Accessing MindNode Next documents (a new feature introduced in version 6.22) didn’t work under some circumstances.
October 13, 2025

October 13, 2025
LaunchBar 6.22 (6287)
Improved compatibility with macOS 26 Tahoe.
Redesigned index window.
Redesigned Action Editor app.
New Features
Added support for accessing MindNode Next documents by browsing the app in LaunchBar with the right-arrow key (or Space bar).
Added support for accessing repositories managed by Fork.app by browsing the app in LaunchBar with the right-arrow key (or Space bar).
Contacts can now also be accessed by browsing third party contact managers (Cardhop and BusyContacts) with the right-arrow key (or Space bar).
Shortcuts that are selected in LaunchBar can now be opened in the Shortcuts app with Command-Return.
Added “Reverse Line Order” action to reverse the order of lines of a selected text.
Improved applications indexing to include embedded apps of all installed Xcode versions.
Clipboard History history items can now be shown in Large Type with Command-Return.
Themes
Updated appearance of the Default theme to better match the style of macOS Tahoe.
The previous Default has been renamed to “Modest” and can still be selected in Settings > Appearance.
Refined some colors in built-in themes.
Improved dark themes to add a subtle window border.
Action Editor
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June 4, 2025
LaunchBar 6.21.1 (6270)
This version is a hot fix for yesterday’s release of version 6.21 which caused a crash on app start for some users.
June 3, 2025
LaunchBar 6.21 (6268)
New features and improvements
Added support for third-party contact apps (Cardhop and BusyContacts).
Added “Decode HTML Entities” string conversion action.
Allow opening of multiple apps or documents at once, even if they are located in different folders.
Improved browsing of RTF files to show their text content instead of the RTF source code.
Improved support for third-party file browsers like ForkLift.
Improved cancelling auto-activation by pressing another modifier key.
Extended JavaScript API for custom actions.
Updated some icons (Google Search action, Web browser history items, etc.)
Bug Fixes
Some phone number related actions (dialing, large type) didn’t work.
Browsing a text snippet with right arrow didn’t show the text contents of the snippet.

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.
Little Snitch
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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.