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Hopkey for MacLike Spotlight, for the small stuff of your workday

Issue number → link.Meeting link → chat.Mic → off.

The small chores that make you switch windows dozens of times a day: finding an issue from a number in chat, digging the meeting link out of old messages, hunting for the mute button before a call. Hopkey handles them from the Mac menu bar. Double-tap ⌘, press one letter.

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Why

Three everyday chores: 12 steps become 5.

Hopkey is for people who spend the day between an issue tracker, a messenger and calls. Your workflow stays the same; only the extra steps go away.

A colleague writes “check PROJ-4821”

Key → link ↓
Without Hopkey4 steps
  1. Open the browser
  2. Find the tracker tab
  3. Paste the number into search
  4. Open the issue
With Hopkey2 steps
  1. Copy the text ⌘C
  2. Click the notification, and the issue is open

Someone asks for your meeting room link

Snippets ↓
Without Hopkey5 steps
  1. Open your notes or bookmarks
  2. Find the room link
  3. Copy it
  4. Switch back to the chat
  5. Paste
With Hopkey2 steps
  1. Double-tap ⌘
  2. Press 1, and the link is in the chat

The call starts in a minute and it’s noisy around you

Sound and mic ↓
Without Hopkey3 steps
  1. Find the Zoom or Teams window
  2. Find the mic button, which is different in every app
  3. Check that it’s actually muted
With Hopkey1 step
  1. ⇧⌘M from any app, with the status shown in the menu bar
QKey → link

Got an issue number? Hopkey opens the link.

Copy text with a key, and a notification appears; click it to open the page. Or select a key in any app and press Q in the palette.

  • Regex → URL templates. Jira is just one preset, next to GitHub, GitLab, CVE and any pattern of your own.
  • Several keys in one text open together. Case doesn’t matter: proj-7 → PROJ-7.
  • Prefer no notification? Open links right away with one switch in Settings.
JiraPROJ-(\d+)→jira.example.com/browse/PROJ-$1
GitHub#(\d+)→github.com/acme/app/issues/$1
CVECVE-(\d{4})-(\d+)→nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-$1-$2
1–9Snippets

A meeting link or a canned reply, one digit away.

Predefined values (meeting links, canned replies, billing details, test-environment passwords) are pasted wherever your cursor is. Use a digit in the palette, or the full list with ⌃⌥V on top of any app.

  • Values live in the macOS Keychain as a single item, read once per launch, so you don’t get a string of access prompts.
  • Even a test password never lingers in clipboard history or other clipboard managers, and never travels to your iPhone. A copied one is wiped from the clipboard right after you paste it.
  • Pasting into another app needs Accessibility. Without it, the value simply lands in the clipboard.

Keep production passwords in your password manager. Hopkey is for test environments and the things you need many times a day.

Snippets⌃⌥V
Click a snippet and it’s pasted here.
MSound and mic

Your mic is muted before you even join the call.

Mute works system-wide through CoreAudio, in any calling app. Press M in the palette or ⇧⌘M from anywhere, and the menu bar icon shows whether anyone can hear you.

  • Switch audio output and input: headphones, speakers, a headset mic.
  • Volume levels on the “Sound” card, with arrow keys and no mouse.
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Also at hand

Everything else, on the same letters.

The palette’s secondary modules. Each is one key after a double ⌘, and frequent commands can get a direct hotkey.

C

Clipboard history

Text and images, encrypted on disk. Copies a password manager marks as concealed are never recorded.

N

Notes

Seven persistent drafts in the spirit of Tot, one ⌃⌥N away.

T

Transforms

Case, JSON, URL, Base64, JWT and lines for the selected text, with a preview.

R

Text from screen

Select an area, and the recognized text (en/ru) is already in the clipboard. Your Mac does the recognition.

⌘F

Search bar

Apps, commands and a calculator, right in the palette.

V

Paste plain

Paste only the text from the clipboard, without fonts or colors.

O I

Output and input

Switch headphones, speakers or a headset mic without opening System Settings.

K

Keep awake

One switch for long builds and big downloads.

Keyboard layouts

Any keyboard layout works.

Palette letters are matched by the physical key, not the character it types. M stays mute even when you’re typing in Cyrillic and that key produces “Ь”.

Try pressing M on your keyboard, in any layout.

QЙ CС NТ MЬ TЕ
By characterCyrillic sends “ь”, so no command is found.
By key · HopkeySame physical key, same mute.

How it differs from Raycast and Alfred

No account, cloud or extension store

Hopkey goes online only to check for updates.

Keys are caught on their own

Copying the text is enough. No need to open the palette and type a query.

Layout-proof letters

Palette letters follow the physical key in any layout.

Free and open source

MIT license, source on GitHub.

Privacy

Everything stays on your Mac.

Hopkey has no servers, no account and no telemetry. Snippets and clipboard history are never synced to iCloud or any other cloud.

Snippets in Keychain

Values live in the macOS Keychain, and other apps can’t read them without your permission. A password is wiped from the clipboard right after you paste it.

Encrypted clipboard

History is stored on disk with AES-256-GCM, the key kept in Keychain. Copies a password manager marks as concealed are never saved.

Notes are plain files

Ordinary unencrypted files in Application Support. Take them with you, no Hopkey needed, but keep passwords in snippets.

Network:Sparkle only, to check for updates·Hopkey servers: 0·telemetry: none
FAQ

What people ask first.

Why does Hopkey need Accessibility?

To put the selected text into the key input window and to paste a snippet into another app’s field, Hopkey presses ⌘C and ⌘V for you. Without it, the input window opens empty and a snippet goes to the clipboard. Mic mute, keep-awake and text from screen need no extra permissions.

Is it only for Jira?

No. Recognition is set up with regex → URL templates. There are Jira, GitHub, GitLab and CVE presets; just fill in your domain or repository. You can add any pattern of your own.

Can I use something other than double ⌘?

Yes. In Settings, the double tap can switch to ⌥ or be turned off. A left click on the menu bar icon also opens the palette, and frequent commands can get direct hotkeys.

Why doesn’t the key turn into a link right inside Slack or Telegram?

macOS doesn’t let one app insert links into another app’s windows, and the system’s Text Replacements only do static swaps. So Hopkey recognizes the key and opens the right page instead.

Will it run on my Mac?

You need macOS 13 or later. It’s a universal build that runs on both Apple Silicon and Intel. Updates arrive through Sparkle.

How much does it cost?

Nothing. Hopkey is free and open source under the MIT license.

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Two taps of ⌘, and you’re where you were going.

Open the DMG, drag Hopkey to Applications and launch it. The icon shows up in the menu bar.

Download for macOS GitHub
v1.7.1macOS 13+Apple Silicon & IntelEN / RU

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