Command Center
A keyboard-first launcher for apps, modules, and actions.
Press Option-Space and type. Command Center finds apps, opens any module, jumps straight to a System Settings pane, runs your quicklinks, and does quick math — and it learns what you reach for.
Interactive illustration with sample values.
What it does
- Global Option-Space shortcut, configurable in Settings
- Ranking that learns from frequency and recency, plus pins and personal aliases
- Application discovery with real icons and per-app actions
- Direct commands for System Settings panes
- Quicklinks with URL templates, an inline calculator, and unit conversions
- Action panel with open, copy, and navigation actions for every result
- Web search fallbacks when nothing local matches
- Window snapping and Quick AI available from the same search field
- Clipboard history with pinned snippets, kept on this Mac
- Access
- Opt-in actions
- Where you find it
- Command CenterMenu bar
- Permissions
- None to search and launch. Clipboard history is off until you turn it on. Window commands use the Windows module's Accessibility permission.
Deliberate limits
- Clipboard history skips concealed and transient pasteboard content, supports per-app exclusions, and never syncs.
- Deep links only open the palette filtered to a command — they never run it for you.
- No shell or script execution and no third-party extension store.
Private beta
Help shape a calmer way to look after your Mac.
A small group of testers is using MacUtilityHub before its public release. See what the beta includes and what it needs to run.