LaunchBar for Mac

New Features and Improvements

• This release brings substantial improvements to VoiceOver support throughout LaunchBar. For details see the “Accessibility & VoiceOver” section below.
• A new option in Settings > Advanced lets you specify the default sort order of folder contents when browsing folders with the Right-Arrow key.
• You can also enforce a certain sort order on the fly while browsing with modifier keys:
  • Command-Right: Sort by Modification Date
  • Shift-Command-Right: Sort by Date Added
  • Option-Command-Right: Sort by Name
  • Option-Shift-Command-Right: Sort by Name, folders on top
• Pasting a URL onto a web browser app that’s currently selected in LaunchBar now opens that URL directly in that browser.
• Improved System Settings indexing to include the “Menu Bar” and “iCloud” panes, and to show the correct icon and name for the “Apple Intelligence & Siri” pane.
• On macOS 26, menu icons have been added to the menu bar and to context menus of both LaunchBar and the Action Editor.
• The menu icons are now larger and easier to read.
• The icons in the menu bar of LaunchBar in macOS Tahoe can be hidden via the HideMenuIcons user default in the command line.
• If a custom action returns a single item with alwaysShowsSubtitle set, the item list will be opened automatically.
• Refined Default theme appearance.
• Improved Music library indexing.
• Improved performance of accessing an application’s recent documents.
• “Previous Recipient” has been renamed to “Previous Email Recipient” for clarity.
• The keyboard shortcut for the “Open” action in the action menu has changed from Return to Command-O, so that pressing Return while navigating the menu with arrow keys correctly selects the highlighted item rather than triggering Open.
• Improved compatibility with the latest version of MindNode for accessing MindNode documents via LaunchBar.
• Music items now consistently use the term “song” rather than “track”.

Accessibility and VoiceOver

Descriptions and Item Types

• Albums now include the album artist in their VoiceOver title.
• Song descriptions now include the duration of the song.
• Contacts and contact detail items have improved VoiceOver descriptions.
• Birthday items have improved VoiceOver descriptions.
• Folders without read permission are no longer wrongly described as “empty folder”.
• Certain file types (web apps, services, framework header files) now have accurate type descriptions.
• The “Computer” item now speaks the number of mounted volumes.
• Containers now have more concise descriptions (the word “contains” has been dropped).
• Items whose contents can be browsed via Right-Arrow have an improved default VoiceOver content description.
• Single-word text items now speak the number of characters.
• Info Browsing items have improved VoiceOver descriptions.
• “Hidden Folder Contents” and “Package Contents” now provide a VoiceOver title.
• Added missing VoiceOver title for grouped document items.

Navigation and Interaction

• The VoiceOver-Space keyboard shortcut now opens LaunchBar’s action menu.
• VoiceOver output updates dynamically when modifier keys are pressed or released, which is particularly useful during Send-to operations, where the available action (move/copy/make alias) changes based on which modifiers are held.
• The Send-to target item now has an improved VoiceOver description.
• Instant Info Browsing now works correctly when VoiceOver is enabled.
• A confirmation alert is now shown before moving items to the Trash when VoiceOver is on.
• The VoiceOver description for the “Clipboard History” action now suppresses the redundant “Action” suffix and speaks the number of items in the history.
• Indexing rule items now have an improved VoiceOver title.
• Preventing hotkey input fields in Setting window from incorrectly receiving keyboard focus via VoiceOver.
• Improved VoiceOver output on Instant Send.
• Improved accessibility of the Welcome and License windows.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an incompatibility with macOS 26.4 that caused the LaunchBar window to appear without a drop shadow.
• Fixed the “Compress (ZIP Archive)” action, which failed out of the box due to missing permission to run third-party Automator actions.
• Fixed intermittent Clipboard History and ClipMerge failures.
• Fixed certain file types (.md, .patch) being incorrectly described as “Package”.
• Fixed indexing rule subtitles to correctly show the number of visible items rather than all items.
• Added missing localizations for Info Browsing labels and the German localization for the “Documents” suffix (e.g. “Numbers-Dokumente”).