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Dev tools · August 5, 2024

Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS

Hi everyone! I'm Marius Hauken, an indie developer, and I'm excited to share my app: Pie Menu. It offers a fresh way to access your favorite menu bar commands and keyboard shortcuts on macOS. By simply pressing a hotkey you choose during setup, a radial menu appears around your cursor, customized to the current active application. This allows you to quickly select commands without having to remember complex shortcuts across different applications. Pie Menu comes with a library of preprogrammed commands for popular apps, but you can easily add any app on your computer. We've also created an…

Pie Menu – a radial menu for macOS launched on August 5, 2024 with 309 votes, #140 of 5,471 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In plain words

Pie Menu is a radial menu application for macOS that displays customizable commands and keyboard shortcuts around your cursor when triggered by a hotkey. The menu adapts to whichever application is currently active, helping users quickly access commands without memorizing complex shortcuts. It includes preprogrammed commands for popular apps and allows users to add any application or create custom shortcuts. A database of shortcuts for various programs is available on the developer's website.

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From the sources

The radial menu for Mac tailored to your active app. Speed up all your favorite programs with only one shortcut!

Whether you're in Figma, Slack or Things, you'll be able to access your most used shortcuts by only remembering one command. One of the best inventions for Macs so far. Customizable shortcuts which can be triggered around the mouse coursor make my life so much easier. Must have for all Mac users! It is growing on me as I figure out how to get more apps to work with it! Pie-menu is a clever way to access menu shortcuts for those of us who can’t remember a miriad of shortcuts. I quite like it! I'm not great at remembering shortcuts so this is quite handy, especially for apps that I use less frequently Studies show using a mouse instead of keyboard shortcuts wastes 2 seconds per minute. Pie…from pie-menu.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi everyone! I'm Marius Hauken, an indie developer, and I'm excited to share my app: Pie Menu. It offers a fresh way to access your favorite menu bar commands and keyboard shortcuts on macOS. By simply pressing a hotkey you choose during setup, a radial menu appears around your cursor, customized to the current…

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