Cornerlight

Every app.
No index.

Cornerlight reads the applications already on your Mac, then hands that exact inventory to macOS’s native launcher UI.

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Roots
3
Index
None
Polling
None

SYSTEM HANDOFF / 001

The shortest path to native.

Cornerlight owns the inventory.
macOS owns the experience.

  1. 01 Read root/System/Applications
  2. 02 Read root/Applications
  3. 03 Read root~/Applications
02 / Adapt

Cornerlight inventory

No index · no database

03 / Present

Native macOS UI

Search · select · launch

Asynchronous once / FSEvents after One version-pinned native handoff

Built around macOS.
Not over it.

Cornerlight keeps one tiny catalog in memory, listens for filesystem changes, and lets Apple’s installed launcher code handle the visible product.

  • No Spotlight metadata index
  • No cursor polling
  • No network requests or telemetry
  • No third-party runtime dependencies

When the index
falls behind.

Spotlight’s Applications view depends on a metadata index. When that index is stale or incomplete, installed apps can disappear from results—or the launcher can come up empty.

Cornerlight takes a smaller path: enumerate the application bundles already on disk, keep that tiny catalog in memory, refresh it only when the filesystem changes, and hand it to macOS’s launcher UI.