The free, open-source, native Raycast alternative — with AI commands built in.
Search, clipboard, snippets — all in one ⌘ + Space.
Requires macOS 14+. Intel & Apple Silicon.
Select text anywhere, run an AI command, and replace it instantly. Translate, fix spelling, summarize — without switching windows.
AI commands drive the Claude Code CLI on your Mac — usage is billed to your own Claude plan, and Ainto stores no API key.
Hi Ainto team,
First off — Ainto has completely replaced Spotlight for me, and the AI commands are a daily habit now.
One small wish is in the subject line. It would save me a ton of re-copying.
Thanks for the great app!
Hao
Searchable clipboard history with text, images, and code. Find anything you've copied — instantly.
Your clipboard sees passwords, tokens, and private notes — so Ainto keeps history in a local SQLite database that never leaves your Mac, and the code that touches it is open source. A clipboard manager you can audit, not one you have to trust blindly.
Ainto is a native macOS launcher: an AppKit + SwiftUI front end over a Rust core, bridged through a C ABI. No web view, no bundled browser — it launches instantly and stays out of your way.
A non-activating native panel that never steals focus from the app you're in. Built with AppKit and SwiftUI — the launcher behaves like the system, because it's built like the system.
App discovery, fuzzy search, frecency ranking, clipboard storage, and snippets all live in a single fast, memory-safe Rust library linked straight into the app.
No Electron, no web view, no background browser eating your RAM. One small native binary that's ready the instant you press ⌘ + Space.
Every release is code-signed, notarized by Apple, and delivered over Sparkle — no Gatekeeper warnings, no manual updates.
Everything Ainto knows lives in plain files under ~/.config/ainto/ — SQLite for clipboard history, TOML for settings and snippets. Readable, backupable, yours. No account, no cloud sync, no telemetry.
A launcher watches your keystrokes and clipboard, so you shouldn't have to take its privacy on faith. Ainto is GPL-3.0 open source: the code that ships is the code on GitHub, and any fork must stay open too.
AI commands run the Claude Code CLI on your Mac, so usage is billed to your own Claude plan. Ainto stores no API key and never routes your text through a middleman server.
"Less bloat, more AI. Native, open source, and AI that actually works everywhere."