The Space chord

One key you already own. A job you do all day.

Give every app a letter. Hold Space and tap it: the app opens. Tap again: it tucks away. Once more: it's back. Hiding behind another window? One tap brings it to the front.

Hold Space for a beat and every shortcut appears around it. Nothing to memorise.
Fast typing is always typing. A space and a letter within a fraction of a second is text, never a command.
Any app, website, folder or file. Even a key combo or a command.

Every shortcut on screen while you hold Space

The mouse ring

Hold a mouse button. Your apps bloom.

Right under the cursor. Drift toward one and let go. The wheel, or your mouse's Back or Forward button — your pick.

Your favourites or every app you've bound, as rings or a golden spiral.
Near a screen edge the ring folds into an arc and stays on screen.
CAD and 3D apps keep their middle button. Spaceadom steps aside.

Hold the mouse wheel, or press and hold anywhere · drift toward an app · let go

Touchpad edges

The edges of your touchpad become sliders.

A finger on the left edge for brightness, the right for volume, the top to scrub a video. The middle still moves the pointer, like always.

Brightness follows your cursor, external monitors included. No vendor app.
Any edge can send tabs, zoom, undo and redo, or a shortcut of your own.

Brightness

Volume

Seek

Drag along an edge

50%

And the rest

Small things that add up to never touching the taskbar.

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Opens on the screen you're looking at

Two monitors? An app you launch lands on the one your cursor is on. Already running? It's brought over.

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Profiles

Work, play, focus. The same 26 letters, three sets of apps. Space + Right Alt switches.

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Picture in picture

Corner any window, even a fullscreen video, and keep it on top.

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Boss key

Space + Esc hides everything and mutes. Press again and it all comes back.

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A living night sky

Fun mode turns the dashboard into a real night: moon phases, constellations, a storm.

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Several apps, one key

Put 2 to 6 apps on one shortcut. One press opens them all, the next tucks them all away, the next brings them back. Side by side or in a grid, on the screen your cursor is on.

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Little windows

A timer, a notepad and a round picture frame, one shortcut away. Pin any of them on top.

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Tuned to your typing

Type one sentence and Spaceadom learns your rhythm, so fast typing never fires a shortcut.

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Your speakers, your mics

Flip between only the speakers or microphones you pick, and a toast names the one you switched to.

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Mac and Linux betas

Space shortcuts, the guide and now the mouse ring on Apple Silicon Macs, and on GNOME and KDE. Get the betas.

Built properly

Native. Light. Private.

0%CPU while it waits in the tray

0 MBmemory with settings closed

0 MBinstaller, Rust at the core

0accounts, ads or analytics

The 3-minute tour

Everything it does, in three minutes.

Space shortcuts, app groups, the mouse ring, touchpad edges, little windows and more. Captions on.

Questions

Asked first, answered plainly.

Does it get in the way of typing?

No. A tapped Space types a space, exactly as it always has. Only a held Space followed by a letter is a shortcut, and fast typing is always treated as text. You can tune the timing in Settings.

How is it different from PowerToys Run, Raycast or Flow Launcher?

Those are search launchers: you type part of a name and pick from a list. Spaceadom is a chord you learn once. Space+B is your browser, every time, with no typing and no list to read. They work fine side by side.

Is it really free?

Yes. No account, no trial, no ads, and no analytics in the app. Get it from the Microsoft Store, or run winget install spaceadom. If you want to say thanks, you can buy me a coffee, but you never have to.

What does it send over the internet?

An optional crash report, which you can switch off, and, outside the Store version, a once-a-day update check. Never what you type or what you've bound. The privacy policy lists everything.

Does it work on Windows on ARM?

Yes. There's a native ARM64 build, and every release is installed and started on real ARM64 hardware before it ships.

Mac or Linux?

Windows is the full app. A Mac beta for Apple Silicon is out now with the Space shortcuts, the mouse ring, the guide and the settings app. A Linux beta for modern GNOME and KDE desktops (Ubuntu, Fedora) is out too.

Hold Space. Tap a letter. It opens.