This version of LaunchBar is compatible with macOS Mojave, but due to improved privacy protection in macOS Mojave, some LaunchBar features require additional permissions to be granted in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy:
Instant Send and Get/Drop Finder Selection require LaunchBar to be added to “Accessibility”. Otherwise LaunchBar won’t be able to simulate a Command-C keystroke, which is necessary for reading the currently selected text or file.
The Clipboard History also requires LaunchBar to be added to “Accessibility”. Otherwise LaunchBar won’t be able to simulate a Command-V keystroke, which is necessary when inserting data from the Clipboard History in other applications.
LaunchBar now supports Dark Mode in macOS Mojave. Note that the appearance of LaunchBar’s main interface is still determined by the selected theme, independent from the current system appearance. So if you’ve selected the Dark Mode in Mojave, you can choose one of the dark themes in LaunchBar (Dark or Base Dark).
In a future update there will be an option to automatically change LaunchBar’s theme in accordance with the current system appearance (provided that the chosen theme also provides a dark variant).
LaunchBar 6.10 now requires at least OS X 10.10 or later. If you are running an older OS version, you can download a compatible version here.
It’s now possible (again) to trigger a search in 1Password by selecting the 1Password app in LaunchBar and then pressing Shift-Space.
Numeric increments during text input. You can now press Command-Up/Down during text input to increment/decrement a number at the cursor position by one, or press Shift-Command-Up/Down to increment/decrement it by ten. This comes quite handy in LaunchBar’s calculator, but can be used in many other situations as well, whenever numeric text input is involved (in custom actions, when renaming files, etc.).
Indexing of Share Menu Actions can now be turned on/off separately in the Options pane of the Actions indexing rule.
Improved handling of file items returned by a custom action during text input as a live result. It's now possible to invoke file actions on these files (like Send-to, Move, Copy, Rename, Duplicate, Get Info, etc.).
Fixed: Clipboard History > Ignore Applications didn't work for 1Password 7 if it was added manually in the preferences window.
Fixed a crash when passing text containing a NULL character to actions implemented as shell scripts.
Fixed a crash when LaunchBar tried to determine whether another application can open documents and that application’s Info.plist was malformed.
Fixed various scripts that deal with phone numbers not working on macOS 10.13.2. This includes actions like “Call with iPhone”, “Call with Skype”, “Call with FaceTime”, and “Send iMessage”.
Fixed an issue introduced in LaunchBar 6.9.3 where actions like “Compose iMessage” would send text as a file attachment instead of, you know, just text.
Fixed revealing reminder items and clicking notifications after creating a reminder on macOS 10.13 not working.
Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar to hang under some circumstances when browsing the list with the arrow keys.
Updated the built-in “Browse Ulysses” action. It now supports the subscription, non-subscription and Setapp versions of Ulysses.
Added support for LaunchBar actions to use images stored in an app’s asset catalog (Assets.car file).
Added support for sending selected text to macOS Sharing Actions that normally only support sending files. You can now AirDrop any text from LaunchBar to another Mac or iOS device.
Fixed an issue where an additional invisible window would be added to the list of LaunchBar’s windows for VoiceOver users on macOS High Sierra (10.13). This could also cause slowdowns in third-party app and window switchers.
Fixed an issue where LaunchBar would sometimes steal the active app’s keyboard focus after switching spaces on macOS High Sierra (10.13).
This version makes LaunchBar compatible with macOS High Sierra (10.13). In particular it addresses compatibility issues in the following areas:
Changed Default Theme. The previous default theme is still available (it has been renamed to “Base”).
Much improved “Add to Things” action. The action now accepts multiple lines (typically via Send to) to generate multiple to-tos, one for each line. Provides feedback via user notification, describing what has been added.
Thanks to the enhanced 3rd party integration of 1Password 6.5 we are now able to provide much more comprehensive access to your 1Password items.
It’s now possible to access all kinds of items (not only logins but also credit cards, secure notes, etc.) from all vaults.
1Password categories (Logins, Passwords, Secure Notes, Credit Cards, Software Licenses, etc.) are now indexed. You can for example type CC to select 1Password’s “Credit Cards” category. You can then browse that category to get a list of all your credit cards stored in 1Password.
Browsing 1Password by selecting the 1Password app and pressing Right Arrow now provides a list of all available 1Password categories.
Opening items that don’t perform a login on a website are now showing a window for viewing and editing that item.
New “Safari Tabs” action provides access to all tabs that are currently opened in Safari. Allows to quickly switch to one of those tabs with the keyboard.
Existing search templates for Wikipedia and Wiktionary are removed from the configuration. Please use the new actions instead. It may be necessary to re-train your abbreviations for these items.
It’s now possible to search for emoji by alternative names. For example, type SPORT to find the basketball emoji, or type SPOCK to find a greeting gesture from a place where no man has gone before.
Links to Emojipedia (accessible via Info Browsing of an emoji that’s selected in LaunchBar) now work more reliably with all kinds of emoji, including skin tone modified versions.
Browsing the Contacts app now shows the Birthdays category, which provides a chronological list of all upcoming birthdays starting from today.
Fixed: Browsing into an application to access recent documents or other items related to that app sometimes stopped working.
Fixed: Blinking text cursor disappeared while typing in LaunchBar Calculator or while browsing suggestions during text input.
Added “Preferred Input Source” preference option, allowing to choose a keyboard input source that will be used in favor of the currently active input source while LaunchBar is active.
Fixed a bug in the built-in MD5, SHA1, and SHA256 checksum actions causing a wrong checksum being calculated for data larger than 4 GB. Furthermore the performance of these action has been significantly improved for large files.
Fixed an issue causing the “Select Folder” contextual menu action in the Options pane of a folder indexing rule to stop working under some circumstances.
Fixed an issue on OS X 10.9 causing the index window to fail opening the Options pane of some indexing rules.
Fixed: Sorting by “date added” by pressing Shift-Command-Right didn’t work anymore. This also affected browsing the Downloads folder, which sorts by “date added” automatically.
Added support for Emoji, Font Awesome icons, and arbitrary characters as icons for LaunchBar Actions and their result items. More information is available in our developer documentation.
Improved phone number handling in “Call with iPhone”, “Call with FaceTime” and “Call with Facetime Audio” actions.
Fixed: Unexpected subtitle, label and badge behavior if script-based actions returned items with path.
Custom Actions can now declare to support ⇧↩ by turning on the new “Reapply last string argument with ⇧↩” option in Action Editor.
Fixed: Dragging files onto a folder that’s selected in LaunchBar didn’t work (the list of available file operations wasn’t shown, the LaunchBar window just disappeared).
Fixed: When sending a file to a folder via Send To (by pressing the Tab key), the list of available file operations didn’t recognize the numeric keyboard shortcuts 1-6.
Back browsing with the Left-Arrow key after invoking an action that returns new items now brings back the previous selection – either the action itself (if it was opened via Return or via Text Input), or the source item of a Send To operation (the item that was sent to the action via Tab).
Improved Send To (pressing Tab) in Calculator. If there’s no text selected (i.e. the cursor is blinking), the result of the current calculation is sent, as before. But if you select a part of the calculation, only that selected text is sent.
Attempting to play a remote track while the computer is offline now shows a message explaining why the playback is currently not possible.
When browsing the Albums category (which shows a list of all albums) the display now includes the album artist in addition to the album title.
The iTunes/Now Playing info (shown when pressing Right Arrow while iTunes is selected) now displays artist or album information for the currently playing track.
Improved heuristics to determine which tracks belong to the same album (should now work same as in iTunes).
Fixed an issue causing some iTunes actions to fail if the iTunes Today Widget was enabled in Notification Center.
Emoji are now sorted by “last access”. The most recently used Emoji are therefore shown at the top of the list. You can still get all Emoji sorted alphabetically by browsing the Emoji rule with Command-Right.
Added “Skin Colored Emoji” category. This category contains all Emoji whose skin tone can be modified.
Improved include() JavaScript function: Now accepts absolute paths, resolves tilde (~) in path and resolves symbolic links in path.
Applying file path(s) via ⌘V (Paste) or ⌘D (Drop Finder Selection) to a selected item now behaves the same as when these path(s) are sent to that item via Send To, i.e. a list of available file operations is shown (instead of the former pop-up menu).
Fixed: After running an AppleScript “LaunchBar AppleScript Runner” would sometimes not terminate properly and instead run indefinitely.
Fixed: The actions indexing rule was continuously re-indexed because the OS X Action Extensions seemed to have changed (this resulted in high CPU usage by LaunchBar and “pkd”).
Fixed: Opening a location in Maps launched Safari as a side effect if the “Open URLs in current Safari window or tab” option was enabled
Fixed: After Send-to, some operations acted on the previous target item instead of on the visible item.
LaunchBar now includes a new Action Editor, making it easier than ever to create incredible actions. Start developing with script templates, configure your action’s runtime behavior, manage localizations and more. Find a detailed feature list below.
Shared Snippets: You can now select one or more additional snippets folders. Especially useful when synced via cloud services to share certain snippets with other computers, co-workers or friends. Works with any kind of syncing service such as iCloud, Dropbox, SparkleShare, OmniPresence, BitTorrent Sync, etc.
Instant Calculate: Sending a single number to Calculator now selects the entire number, which makes it easier to apply functions like sin(), sqrt(), etc.
Sending one or more files to the Add/Remove/Replace Tags actions presents a list of all available tags (as it did before), but you can now select multiple tags from that list.
The tags of an item, that are shown during Info Browsing (by pressing Option-Right) can now be removed conveniently just by pressing Command-Delete. This also works for multiple tags.
Fixed some tag indexing issues: Items with multiple tags or with legacy color labels were not properly indexed under some circumstances.
Well, we announced this feature already in our 6.2 release notes. But due to an embarrassing mistake in our build process, the feature was not enabled in the released version. But now it finally works and you can drag multiple items from LaunchBar to other applications!
Fixed: When deleting iCloud documents, Finder did not become active reliably to show its confirmation dialog.
Fixed an issue causing LaunchBar to sometimes become visible when a volume got mounted or unmounted.
Improves left/right navigation during auto-activation (for example, while browsing running applications with Command-Space,Space).
List navigation with vi/Emacs shortcuts (Control-N, Control-P, Control-I, Control-J, Control-K) now also works during text input.
To prevent conflicts with Emacs shortcuts, the “vi” arrow keys (Control-H/J/K/L) can now be turned off completely in LaunchBar Preferences > Shortcuts.
Info Browsing by pressing and holding the right arrow key is now turned off by default. It can be turned on via LaunchBar Preferences > Shortcuts > Instant Info Browsing.
Quick Look can now be triggered with ⌘Y during text input. Useful for previewing the results of some custom actions.
Improved “Move to Trash” behavior (including new confirmation alerts when attempting to trash many items or items from different folders).
Fixed: Usage counters were not properly incremented for Tower repositories and Development Resources.
Changed keyboard shortcuts for Info Browsing from ⇧→ to ⌥→ and “Show Siblings” from ⇧← to ⌥←. These changes became necessary to allow a more consistent set of shortcut used for staging.
Improved "New Folder" action to suggest a different folder name if an "untitled folder" already exists.
Improved “Duplicate” action (⇧⌘D) to also trigger “Rename” so you can immediately apply a reasonable name to the duplicate.
Concept of multiple selections in LaunchBar. To learn more about this new feature, read our blog post.
Open multiple items with ↩ (apps, files & folders, contacts & email addresses, bookmarks, emoji, snippets, songs, albums, …).
While the list is displayed, the items can be rearranged with ⌥↑ or ⌥↓. Useful if the order is relevant (contacts, songs, attachments, …).
Necessary when opening multiple files from different folders (this is a safety measure, to prevent accidental opening of such a scattered selection).
Calendar input is now more flexible and accepts description, location and date/time in arbitrary order (only the location must always be after the description):
Date & Time can now also be specified relative to “now”, for example: “Call Susan @ 20min” to create a reminder that’s due in 20 minutes.
URL-Scheme support for LaunchBar Actions. Actions can now optionally define a script that is called when a URL like x-launchbar:action/com.example.action is opened anywhere in OS X. See the Script Types for more details.
Added support for working with Base64 data and binary data. See Working with Binary Data for more information.
Added support for loading HTTP requests with arbitrary HTTP methods. Also added a convenience method for POST requests.
Fixed: LaunchBar Actions implemented in AppleScript caused launch of applications during indexing. Also, these actions now must specifically declare in their Info.plist the fact that they accept or require arguments (previously, implementing the appropriate handler in the script was sufficient).
Fixed: If LBResultType was set to path and that path contained the tilde character (˜), it was not expanded for the resulting items.
The Small theme is now attached to the menu bar by default. Of course, you can still move it to wherever you like it to be.
Additional mixed case conversion suggestions are now shown during Enter/Edit Text (scroll down the suggestion list to see them all).
Reduced indexing frequency of some folder rules by ignoring changes in ~/Library unless the rule explicitly has its path set to a folder inside ~/Library.
Improved Theme switching: Default width will be applied only if different from the currently active theme.
Deleting/adding rules is now the recommended way to select the desired set of features. Disabling of indexing rules is still possible, but only via contextual menu (no more checkboxes).
Improved Recent Documents browsing. Now includes all documents that can be opened with the selected application, sorted by access date. This allows you to access recently used documents even for apps that do not support the standard Cocoa API (like Adobe applications).
Subtitle display is now turned off by default. Subtitles can be shown temporarily by holding down the ⌃⌥⌘ modifier keys.
The index window’s Schedule pane has been removed because it’s no longer needed. All index updates are now performed automatically.
Removed .clip.rtf / .clip.txt support. The same functionality can be accomplished with the Snippets indexing rule.
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