Bunch is a macOS app that turns plain text files into powerful automations, all available from a menu bar with full love for keyboard access. Launch/quit apps, change system settings, and automate the various contexts you work in.
Text-based automation for macOS
Bunch is a macOS app that turns plain text files into powerful automations, all available from a menu bar with full love for keyboard access. Launch/quit apps, change system settings, and automate the various contexts you work in.
Hey PH! I just released version 1.4 of Bunch. It shines at "context switching" --- setting up your Mac for a specific task or project, automatically. It can launch (or quit) all the necessary applications, change system settings like Dark Mode and Do Not Disturb, run custom AppleScripts, Shell Scripts, and Automator Workflows, and a hundred other things, all configured using plain text files (think DOS batch files, but cooler). It's gotten quite advanced since its early 1.0.0 days, but I've deci
Love this app, will be using it on a new Mac soon.
I've never used multiple desktops, because it seemed too finicky for something that should be simple. I'm a writer (eh) who buys big MacBook Pros because I "need" them for "work" which does make me an *idiot.* Bunch is somehow incredibly more finicky and more simple through being finicky. There's so much in bunch like, running scripts, scheduling bunches, conditional logic, execution sequences, and so much more that I don't use and never will. But like, pressing something to turn on DND, open an
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A measure of community engagement at launch. Higher means more people noticed and interacted with the product. It's a traction signal, not a quality rating.
Discussion threads divided by interest score. Above 0.30 is strong. Below 0.15 suggests the product got clicks but not conversation.
Categories come from the product's launch tags. Most products appear in 2-3 categories. The primary category is listed first.
The scores reflect launch-period engagement. Historical data is preserved and doesn't change retroactively. The build date at the bottom shows when the index was last refreshed.